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Happy New Year!
It’s New Year’s Eve, so it’s time to get your dancing shoes on. Here’s a little cinematic inspiration for those of you anticipating a “foxtrot epidemic” tonight, courtesy of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Oyster...
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Birds Eye View Sound & Silents – Sumurun and The Adventures of Prince Achmed
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) Birds Eye View is one of Silent London’s favourite film festivals – a celebration of female film-makers with an exceptionally strong and musically adventurous...
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Sumurun: Ernst Lubitsch and Pola Negri’s Arabian night
Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch in Sumurun This is a guest post for Silent London by Kelly Robinson. Sumurun screens with a live score by Amira Kheir at BFI Southbank as part of Birds Eye View Film...
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The top 10 silent film dream sequences
This is a guest post for Silent London by Paul Joyce, who blogs about silent and classic cinema at Ithankyouarthur.blogspot.co.uk. The Silents by Numbers strand celebrates some very personal top 10s...
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Lubitsch in Berlin: box set review
Pola Negri in Sumurun (1920) We’re an excitable bunch here at Silent London, which you have probably noticed by now. But a quiet announcement by Masters of Cinema recently caused even more whooping...
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Ten lost silent films
This is a guest post for Silent London by David Cairns, a film-maker and lecturer based in Edinburgh who writes the fantastic Shadowplay blog. The Silents by Numbers strand celebrates some very...
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Madame Dubarry: Blu-ray and DVD review
Madame Dubarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) Pola Negri’s Madame Dubarry has it. You know exactly what I am talking about. Dubarry is living and loving in the heat of pre-revolutionary Paris, but she’s more...
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2015: Pordenone post No 1
Romeo und Julia im Schnee (1920) Filmarchiv Austria, Wien The town was like a loaded gun, needing only a spark to set it off – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables “It’s the last time I shall say it, so I shall...
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2015: Pordenone post No 4
Die Puppe (1919) What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion, or predict what kind of explosion it will be. – Victor Hugo, Les...
View ArticleLe Giornate del Cinema Muto 2017: Pordenone post No 8
Can you believe it? It seems like only a week ago I’d never seen a French western or become intimately acquainted with The Island Girl. Our “week of miracles” is over, but the last programme delivered...
View ArticleHippfest 2018: unveiled!
It’s that time of year again, when we get to delve into the Hippfest programme. The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival in Bo’ness, Scotland, is the most welcoming event in the early cinema calendar, with...
View ArticleHippfest 2018: I left my heart in Bo’ness
There is more than one way to build a silent film festival, but perhaps some events might like to acknowledge twins – fellow fests that take the same approach to curating and commissioning archive...
View ArticleCinema muto ritrovato: silent films at Bologna 2018
Is Cabaret (1971) every film historian’s favourite fetish? There’s the perfection of its razor-cut New Hollywood take on a golden age genre, and its tribute to the “divine decadence” of the Weimar...
View ArticleLe Giornate del Cinema Muto 2018: Pordenone Post No 7
I probably should have mentioned this before, but the 37th Giornate del Cinema Muto is officially the best yet ever, no returns. Why? Because Pola Negri is this year’s poster girl. Artistic Director...
View ArticleSo this is comedy: 2019 Kennington Bioscope Silent Laughter Weekend
This is a guest post for Silent London by Michelle Facey, a member of the programming team at the Kennington Bioscope. Feeling a post-Easter ennui? Well, you could do no better than to ready your...
View ArticleThe Silent London Poll of 2019: The Winners
Happy new decade Silent Londoners! Let’s kick off the Twenties with a party shall we? A Silent London Poll-Winners’ Party. You know the drill by now, these prizes go to the best of the past year in...
View ArticleLe Giornate del Cinema Muto 2021: Pordenone Post No 1
“Now more than ever, welcome home!” If Jay Weissberg’s address to the Verdi at tonight’s opening gala didn’t lodge a lump in your throat, you may be an irredeemable cynic. Or perhaps you were just...
View ArticleOssi, Marion and Julie: Gender Rebels in Bristol
A quick note about an event I am taking part in, in Bristol this month. The Slapstick Festival is hosting a day devoted to “Gender Rebels”, with a triple-bill of films on the theme of...
View ArticleIl Cinema Ritrovato 2023: women who worry and men who don’t
Someone just asked me if I were back from Bologna yet. Oops. I have been back home for over a week now, but I haven’t written anything about the festival. So here I am, to tell you what rocked my world...
View ArticleLe Giornate del Cinema Muto 2024: Pordenone Post No 6
Wouldn’t you like to go Behind the Scenes with DW Griffith and Florence Lawrence? I sure would, that’s why I was bright and early at the Verdi this morning for the 1980 Biograph package. Behind the...
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