A lost Maurice Tourneur silent film – ROSE OF THE WORLD (1918) – has been found! Read the full story from Tourneur biographer Christine Leteux uwpress.wisc.edu/Blog/2026/05...

Queen Kelly is coming to the UK! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/05/29/c...

While in Paris last week I visited the grave of Falconetti, star of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), and the Musée Méliès at the Cinémathèque Française! Here’s a recap for this week’s Silent Sundays.

Don’t miss this. If you buy a pass you can book now. And read @pamhutch.bsky.social book on the film from @stickingplacebk.bsky.social.

Queen Kelly is coming to the UK! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/05/29/c...

Join us on Tuesday 16th June, 8:30 pm at The Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP) for a screening of The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck, 1926) with an introduction by Dr Ian Roberts @warwick-smlc.bsky.social! Tickets available via link below! @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social

Join us on Thursday 18th June, 8:30 pm at The Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP) for a screening of Song (Richard Eichberg, 1928)with an introduction by Andreas Thein (Filmmuseum Düsseldorf)!

@pamhutch.bsky.social @silentfilmcalendar.bsky.social We'll be touring our exhibition on the lost 1920 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and would love for people to join us. We start in June at @leedslitfest.bsky.social Please watch this space! (image courtesy of the Bronte Parsonage Museum)

Tremendous programme in this day devoted to the origins of film sound, 1894-1929. I cannot recommend high enough the wonders of the Phono-Cinéma-Théatre programme, with @silentsweeney.bsky.social presenting films sound/colour made for the Paris Exposition of 1900 cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/yo...

We got funding!!! 🎆 Absolutely ecstatic to announce that Laraine Porter and I have been awarded an AHRC Catalyst grant to work with @cinemaforall.bsky.social and its member societies on ‘Opening New Horizons in Early Community Cinema History’, piecing together the movement’s history from 1925-1946 🎇

Currently on a limited release in the States, A BLIND BARGAIN is a feature-length tribute to the long-lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent horror of the same name. Set in 1970 LA, shot on film, with intentional silent-cinema visual language, starring Crispin Glover www.ablindbargainmovie.com

Kew Bridge Kinema! The Brentford Musical Museum regularly shows great silent films with live Wurlitzer accompaniment from Donald Mackenzie. Next up: FLESH AND THE DEVIL on 23 May www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/event/silent...

Yet again, Léontine brings down the house!!! It was a joy to present this torrential slapstick trifecta at the Ordway Center in St Paul last night!! (For their annual silent film cine-conert 🎞️🎶) W/ original music by *the* @megmorley.bsky.social for Léontine's Boat! ⛵️🎊😍 schubert.org/event/accord...

"If we’re only considering the already anointed and only looking at features, then we’re missing what the full range of cinema was at the time" Jay Weissberg on programming the Pordenone Silent Film Festival www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/state-o...

Happy May Day!!! Vive la grève!!!!! 🔥

Young, brilliant and passionate about silent cinema? The Pordenone Collegium is just what you are looking for. Applications are open now. www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/collegium...

At last!!! The brilliant nasty woman silent comedy, WANDA'S TRICK (1918) -- co-directed by Rosa Porten & starring Wanda Treumann -- is available online w/ English subs and beautiful music by Ensemble Sonux Lux Cinema!! 🎞️🎶😍 player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/wan...

For this week’s Silent Sundays post, I have continued working on an investigation that began on Twitter a decade ago. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/was-fw-mur...

Days before the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, the Miles Brothers captured a thriving Market Street. On April 18, 1906, everything changed. The brothers returned—and filmed what remained. 1/4

Highly recommended!

What an honor to have presented Anna May Wong's film The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) with Yiman Wang @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social at Orphans 2026! Many thanks to Dan Streible @orphanfilm.bsky.social for organizing such a beautiful symposium at the OSU's Wexner Center for the Arts @osuwexmed.bsky.social

I'm on the Writers on Film podcast with @www.johnbleasdale.com – talking about the sordid saga of QUEEN KELLY and why I wrote a book about it. podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/p...

Day Two of the 9th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend. From the Great War to high couture via cod fishing and shoe-shop slapstick, another high content day down Lambeth way. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/04/spin...

V special event. @charliechaplin.com masterpiece THE GOLD RUSH screens at @regentstcinema.bsky.social on 15 May, introduced by Paul Merton and Spencer Chaplin. www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/the-go...

QUEEN KELLY on the big screen in the UK! This is not a drill. See you in Bristol this summer.

Lulu in the east end!

One of the most infamous unfinished film in cinema history, the newly reconstructed 4K restoration of Erich von Stroheim's QUEEN KELLY screens 4/25 & 4/26 at brunch at Nitehawk Williamsburg

Holy crap the Queen Kelly restoration was wild af. They returned it to a silent film and used Stroheim's script to fun out the unfinished ending. Did not expect it to be so damn funny and lurid. Highly recommended to all silent film curious folks. See it with a crowd if u can.

Books Read April 2026 #3: Pamela Hutchinson: The Curse of Queen Kelly. I love books about individual films and @pamhutch.bsky.social is one of our finest writers on cinema. She tells the whole doomed story through three leading principals: Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy.

I'll be performing at the TCM Classic Film Festival again this month! My 7th time, and this year it'll be for Marion Davies in THE PATSY (1928) filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/fil...

Lost Georges Méliès film from 1897, found in rural Pennsylvania www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

The Denver Silent Film Fest is live!!! Join us for our Sat quadrafecta -- Anna May Wong in PAVEMENT BUTTERFLY, armless knife throwing à la THE UNKNOWN, Lois Weber's SHOES presented by @shelleystamp.bsky.social, & Asta/Greta in Pabst's JOYLESS STREET!! 🎞️🎶 All with live music! 😍

Join me tomorrow at the Denver Silent Film Festival for Lois Weber’s heart-wrenching SHOES. www.denverfilm.org/program

Seeing silent films live is pure magic.

The best way to see @milestonefilms.bsky.social QUEEN KELLY is on the big screen. Even better, on the glorious screen of the Castro with Eli Denson conducting his beautiful new score on the opening night of San Francisco Silent Film Festival this May. silentfilm.org/event/queen-...

Delighted to be going today to the British Silent Film Festival Symposium at the wonderful Cinema Museum to talk about... television. cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/br...

QUEEN KELLY comes to Blu-ray, 16 June from @kinolorber.com and @milestonefilms.bsky.social – the new reconstructions of this wild and ambitious romance, in all its glory! kinolorber.com/product/quee...

“Elvira speaks to us like a contemporary because of her films’ carnality and sensuality. The texture of silent film makes you feel so close to that sensuality.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

“Memory needs to be kept alive, it needs to be actualized.” For this week’s Silent Sundays I spoke with documentarian Valerio Ciriaci about his new documentary ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENT, which is a portrait of Italy's first female director. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/elvira-not...

We are less than 1 week away from the Denver Silent Film Festival at the beautiful Sie FilmCenter, April 10-12!!! Get your tickets, come to Denver, and join the festivities! 🎊❤️🎞️📽️🎶‼️ denversilentfilmfestival.eventive.org/welcome

For this week’s Silent Sundays post I profiled a little known silent star: Jiggs the Dog! Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/your-silen...

Early cinema was dominated by nonfiction.

The Spring edition of WeimarCinema.org is here! The issue brings together three original essays and a new film dossier, each offering fresh perspectives on Weimar Cinema. www.weimarcinema.org

Quick reminder that the Hippfest at Home will start streaming on Monday and is available for a week. It includes otherwise unavailable titles like SAXOPHONE SUSY and WHITE HEATHER www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/hip...

It is Gloria Swanson's birthday and there a few different ways that you could celebrate… silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/27/p...

Mary Mallory looks at the newly restored "Queen Kelly," starring Gloria Swanson and directed by Erich von Stroheim, a troubled, unfinished film that vanished, known mostly through clips in "Sunset Boulevard."

The only thing you need to read this Sunday!! @pamhutch.bsky.social and @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social in conversation -- talking Queen Kelly👑, C.A. Lejeune, feminist film history, silent festivals, Musidora, Iris Barry, and "the magic of film"! 🎞️❤️ oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/silent-fil...

Brush up your Swanson and Stroheim with our Instant Expert guide to QUEEN KELLY silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/24/i...

“How charming it is to make a #silentfilm”: Bi Gan’s third feature is a chameleonic journey through a century of filmmaking. Via @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, the director discusses finding inspiration in classic folk tales, and the fundamental mystery of perspective: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Today marks a year since we lost our principal donor, Peter Jewell. Peter’s enthusiasm and love of the collection continues to inspire us and is captured here by Juliana Malucelli, showing him with a picture taken by David Appleby of his life-long friend, the great filmmaker Bill Douglas.