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Sunday, 24 August 2025

Knives Out… Sensation im Wintergarten (1929), Bonn Silent Film Festival 2025 streaming, with Günter Buchwald and Frank Bockius

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We have only the crème de la crème…(at the Wintergarden)   As a child during our regular family trips up the Lancashire coast I would ...
Thursday, 24 July 2025

Coming soon... Anna May Wong: The Art of Reinvention, BFI September & October

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  Just a quick note to make sure you’re all aware of what promises to be one of the finest silent seasons at the BFI in years this autumn!...
Sunday, 13 July 2025

Gimme Some Truth* … Hypocrites (1915), Woman with a Movie Camera, BFI with Caroline Cassin

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"Everyone told me that ...plays, aiming at anything like a moral, would never pay... Hypocrites was my first chance to prove that I w...
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Friday, 11 July 2025

Pen-Ultima Thule – The Edge of the World (1937 cut), Birkbeck College

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“Edge of the World was entirely saved for me by the editor (Derek Twist) … I mean, Flaherty with no story – at least I had the semblance o...
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Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Lazybones (1925), Kennington Bioscope with John Sweeney

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  Dave Glass’ introduction included a visual essay starting with William Fox (of whom more later at the KB) which then focused on an overv...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Star-filled and velvet black - Film on Film 2025 (Part Two), BFI

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When people ask me what’s the difference between watching a nitrate print and another… I commonly use the analogy of a photocopy of a pict...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Hot media... Film on Film 2025 (Part One), BFI

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  The hottest day of the year and we were all indoors staying cool with the nitrate as The Man Who Would Be Compo made like a cockney Cag...
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It's pronounced "Ithank-yew!" as one word, Big Hearted Arthur Askey's catch phrase. Why? Because I needed a blog name for a friend and it stuck. My real name is Paul Joyce.
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