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/

Early films featuring Louise Brooks to get Blu-ray release via Flicker Alley and @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social and @silentlondon.bsky.social and ME. Details at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/12/once...

Make way for Harold Llloyd's Christmas Tree, ya-da ya-da ya-da ya-da-da-da. You'd need more than a pair of glasses and a smile to take in all of that one.

Breaking Louise Brooks news! From Flicker Alley and @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social and @thomasgladysz.bsky.social and me!

Another SINE NOMINE (#22) has been identified!! 🎞️⁉️ The *only* existing fragment of FABIENNE (FR 1920, Camille de Morlhon, Film Valetta-Edition A.G.C.). Read the full scoop! docs.google.com/document/d/1... And help sleuth out the next title... www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/sine-nomi...

Join us at the University of Warwick next week for a free screening of Die freudlose Gasse as part of Dr. Ian Roberts' Weimar 100 project! Registration here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/EShTmXnxZF

Breaking Louise Brooks news! From Flicker Alley and @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social and @thomasgladysz.bsky.social and me!

The @slapstickfest.bsky.social programme is now live! I will see you there, where I will be talking about classic comedy duos, with @lucyportercomic.bsky.social. Also, flappers and Yasujiro Ozu. Separately. slapstick.org.uk/all-events/

These wonderful silent Sherlock Holmes films, restored by the BFI, will screen at the marvellous San Francisco Silent Film Festival this week. Look out for UK dates, some with live music, in December and January silentlondon.co.uk/2024/10/17/s...

Remembering Marie Prevost on her birthday #botd

Big news for April 2026!

"Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece" Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford) talks about silent cinema's depictions of Ancient Greece in this free online lecture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housman-le...

Brilliant recap of the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone by HippFest director Alison Strauss!! (Thanks for the shout-out to our "fun, richly illustrated, and snappy" lecture on nasty women costume design!) 🎞️❤️ hippfest.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/d...

A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social and is available for home viewing for the first time. www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...

TODAY'S THE DAY, FOLKS! Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way! www.allaboutthemusicpod.com

Film star salaries compared to the average American, and the President, in 1927

Updating our #silentfilm live screening listings tonight. Lots of new additions and lots more to follow soon. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

Lillian Gish klaxon! I am introducing this screening of WAY DOWN EAST on 35mm at the BFI on 16 December. Give yourself an early Christmas present! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

cannot stress enough how GREAT this film is

Co-director @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social selects his top five #SilentFillm titles from this year's Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 in #Pordenone, Italy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/festiva...

Composer Stephen Horne introduces this screening of the magnificent silent STELLA DALLAS (Henry King, 1925) with his recorded score (which is exceptionally good) at BFI Southbank on 2 November whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

New Writers on Film episode from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival with Neil Brand and James Harrison open.spotify.com/episode/2uxj...

A different definition of melodrama but I will be giving a short lecture on silent cinema's iconic vamps at Fabrica in Brighton, also as part of CINECITY www.cine-city.co.uk/event/playin...

Whoop! Paul’s Pordenone blogs were on fire this year.

The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/l...

The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/l...

Well, this is nice - name-checked by Criterion for my coverage of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto along with @silentlondon.bsky.social , both of us writing daily on the films! 😎 www.criterion.com/current/post...

Day Seven at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto comes with an adult content warning. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...

Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...

Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...

From Pompei to the sea bed via confused parents and others in denial. And, blessed are the costume designers with their help we can smash the patriarchy! Day Six at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/epic...

Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...

"There was more mischief to be had in the afternoon w/a triple-bill devoted to Louis Feuillade’s collaborations w/the elusive Léontine.." ⁉️🎞️🎈 Big day for Léontine! Powerful & dazzling line-up of screenings at #GCM44, chronicled brilliantly by @pamhutch.bsky.social silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

A night in Le Giornate del Cinema Muto that I won't forget silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

Day four of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto brought a return to East Lynne and a visit to the women of Chaplinland. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

And emotional day four at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto! #SilentFilm ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/tear...

Day four of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto brought a return to East Lynne and a visit to the women of Chaplinland. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...