Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Season Introduction & Shanghai Express (1932), Anna May Wong: The Art of Reinvention, BFI

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  Anna Wong, the actor’s niece, never met her aunt but she learned a lot from her father who assured her that his sister had felt fulfille...
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Monday, 8 September 2025

When Erich met Irving... Merry-Go-Round (1923), Flicker Alley Blu-ray

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    “…inexcusable and repeated acts of insubordination… extravagant ideas which you have been unwilling to sacrifice… and your apparent id...
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Sunday, 31 August 2025

The Rabmadár Redemption? Slave Bird (1929), with Elaine Brennan, Bonn Silent Film Festival 2025

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It happened in the women’s prison on the evening of 26 th May…     Slave Bird aka Rabmadár aka Prisoner No. 7 is frank in ways that ...
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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