Silent Cinema at the BFI today as Bryony Dixon introduces the SFFP restoration of The Garden of Eden (1928) with Stephen Horne improvising live accompaniment. A splendid time was had by all. #SilentFilm

For this week’s Silent Sundays post I look at the production, critical reaction, and legacy of the first adaptation of Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS, A.V. Bramble’s 1920 adaptation that is now considered lost.

Ready for the Laurel and Hardy show with maestro @neilkbrand.bsky.social

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Oh my. It not only exists but it has arrived! #LouiseBrooks #RareGrooves #SilentFilm

Ready to go at @slapstickfest.bsky.social

We're halfway through #SlapstickFest26! Limited tickets available via our website 👇

@silentlondon.bsky.social’s poll results are out and thank you to the lovely person for the shout out and for placing me in the same sentence as Paul Cuff and Pamela Hutchinson!! #SilentFilm silentlondon.co.uk/2026/02/04/t...

Lots to love in this list. Particularly, a well deserved Silent Film Hero win for HippFest’s Alison Strauss!

Congrats to all the winners of the 2025 @silentlondon.bsky.social poll!!!! 😍🎊🎞️🎊 silentlondon.co.uk/2026/02/04/t... We're chuffed to see shout-outs to ROWDY ANN and @karenpearlman.bsky.social's "feminist archival gem" BREAKING PLATES in the coveted "Best Intertitle" category!

On “People on Sunday,” released in Germany on this day in 1930:

Look out for screenings of silent classics w/live music at Theatreship, Canary Wharf, in collaboration with the BFI, kicking off with L'INFERNO (1911) on 7 February, followed by METROPOLIS, BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN and MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: 7th Feb: 'L'Inferno ft. Live Score link.dice.fm/I404ff918b14

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

Time to announce the winners of the 2025 Silent London poll! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/02/04/t...

I am attending to a rather overdue matter…

An absolutely brilliant film festival and a highlight of the year for me. There's some online options but try and get there.

Whoop whoop it’s Hippfest lineup announcement day! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/02/04/h...

In Remembrance: John Bengtson We are deeply saddened to share that John Bengtson—dear friend and founding board member of the San Francisco Film Preserve—passed away on Thursday, January 29. John was a distinguished film historian, author, and lifelong devotee of silent-era cinema. 1/6

Sixty years ago, we said goodbye to Silent Comedy icon Buster Keaton. A pillar of our festival, we have four Keaton pictures at this year's festival (Wed 4th to Sun 8th Feb), including welcoming his granddaughter Melissa Talmadge Cox in conversation and live music from Rick Wakeman. Tickets in bio

Irene Rich winning the whole movie in Lubitsch's adaptation of LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (1925). Lubitsch and Oscar Wilde were a match made in heaven. Too many directors take a WITTY NUDGE NUDGE YA GET IT??? approach to Wilde and overdirect their performers. Lubitsch keeps it perfectly light.

The one and only @hennefem.bsky.social on watching the 1903 film MARYJANE’S MISHAP for the first time: “I was so confused and delighted and mystified by the film, and that’s really when I drank the Kool Aid.”

“There’s something so utopian about taking this oppressive world, tearing it down, and imagining something better, and being wild and free and unhinged in the process.”

Very sad to learn of the death of tireless, charming John Bengtson, who mapped silent film history in the real world

R.I.P. Frank Roumen (of Eye Filmmuseum, and thrice of Orphan Film Symposiums). Here in New York 2018.

Britain's Once and Future Queen of Happiness reigned supreme at the Kennington Bioscope with not one but two unique copies of two of Betty Balfours "lost" silent films. A splendid show courtesy of Christopher Bird and Bob Geoghan! #SilentFilm ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/01/bett...

Out now from @flicker-alley.bsky.social @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social @thomasgladysz.bsky.social FOCUS ON LOUISE BROOKS – as if you could focus on anything else. flickeralley.com/products/foc...

Hitchcock’s The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What’s next – Psycho on Snapchat?

This film and score are excellent, have a go on it if you're in the area! If you're not in the area but interested, simply go to the area

To celebrate 130 years of cinema in Britain, a night of silent comedy classics hosted by Paul Merton at @regentstcinema.bsky.social on 13 February. www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/from-l...

Amazing news: the UK premiere of @neilkbrand.bsky.social tremendous new orchestral score for THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH in Sheffield on 21 March www.tickettailor.com/events/sheff...

We're closing out our month of silent era films about modern women on a high note: THE GIRL IN TAILS is a Swedish romantic comedy and feminist satire directed by Karin Swanström. A young woman causes a scandal when she wears a tuxedo to her own graduation ball. moviessilently.com/2026/01/26/t...

As it's Robbie Burns Day, my thoughts on a beautifully shot Hollywood film with a Scottish flavour directed by Maurice Tourneur and with an excellent new score from Stephen Horne. Streaming on @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social website! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/01/lost...

FRED OTT'S SNEEZE (1894), full film

If you can't be in HippFest this March, HippFest will come to your home! Highly recommend this digital pass for a taste of Britain's best silent film festival online. www.falkirkleisureandculture.org/memberships/

Night Life of Hollywood (1922). #SilentFilm

The director Erich von Stroheim reinvented himself in America through aggrandizement and found critical and commercial success with his films. His eccentricities ended his career in Hollywood, leaving his 1929 drama “Queen Kelly” unfinished. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NA3LiW

Time for a little nostalgia… silentlondon.co.uk/2026/01/06/l...

My “top 10" for silent cinema screenings in 2025... with thanks to the archivists, programmers, projectionists, acompanists and the original artists of course! Especially those in Sweden. I mean, it's in no particular order... except for the top one! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/yet-...

Happy holidays to all Silent Londoners, wherever you may be! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/22/s...

Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...

The centenary of The Gold Rush continues! Read our end-of-year newsletter for news on restorations, screenings, books, documentaries, and more. us11.campaign-archive.com?u=8be216151f... #TheGoldRush100

Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...

A Girl’s Folly (1917). #SilentFilm

Something very exciting from @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – MY LIFE IS THE CINEMA, the memoirs and selected writings of Esfir' Shub! stickingplacebooks.com/books/my-lif...

Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks set for first ever e-book edition! Read all about it at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/12/lulu...

HUGE Betty Balfour news!! A rare screening of two supposedly lost films of this major British star that have survived only on 9.5mm and 16mm: Cinders (UK 1926) and Daughter of the Regiment (1929). 28th January '26 with live accompaniment + intros! #SilentFilm cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/be...

I am introducing a 35mm screening of WAY DOWN EAST (DW Griffith, 1920) with live music by Stephen Horne at the BFI on Tuesday. Wrap up warm! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

“Sergei Eisenstein: 100 Years of Potemkin” is on at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna from tomorrow through January 5 — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our latest blog is from #artist Juliette Losq, who visited the #museum on a stipend from The Stephen Herbert Award. Juliette explored our #peepshow collection - you can find out more about her fascinating artwork on her website here: www.losq.co.uk & read the full blog here: tinyurl.com/4zdaxz6c

Good morning! My essay on THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL (1921), directed by the mighty Cecil B. DeMille, is up at the website for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. A beautiful restoration screened this year, letting people savor the charm of Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson... silentfilm.org/6563-2/