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On the occasion of #HWC2025 our colleague Eric Hoyt (of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) has written this wonderful blog post. Includes links to resources from Media History Digital Library.

wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/20...

A white woman in a long white dress, black overcoat and black boots is walking across a rocky, snowy landscape, looking very cold and windswept and dramatic. It's a still from Sally Potter's film The Gold Diggers.

I wrote about Sally Potter's THE GOLD DIGGERS & why u shd come to @cineredis.bsky.social 26/27 July to see this "Hollywood studio–meets European arthouse–meets feminist avant-garde – WITH SONGS!" sparkling unicorn feat. luminous Julie Christie. #FilmSky

Read more👇
clubdesfemmes.com/culture-club...

So looking forward to this!
📽️🎞️🎟️🍿

UK-based film studies friends - please help @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social Her MA research explores how Open Access has affected film academia in the UK. If you're a film/screen media academic working in the UK with experience of OA publishing, please fill in/share her anonymous survey.

C’mon folks we need more Marion Davies! Please support if you’re able! #SilentFilm

An side view of an audience applauding. Reframing Film Sessions 2024 c/o Chelsey Cliff.

Apply now for our Reframing Film Sessions on Wed 23 July at @wshed.bsky.social (start of #CineRedis25)

Join some of the most inspiring voices in film exhibition and distribution for practical insights into the world of restorations, film rights and upcoming re-releases.

wshd.to/reframingfil...

VFX workers on ‘AVATAR’, as well as those who work at Marvel Studios and Disney, have officially ratified their first labor contract, which includes:

• Health plan
• Rest periods
• Overtime pay
• Meal penalties
• Industry pension
• Turnaround times
• Raises of 4% and 3.5%

(via Variety)

It was such a great event, and what a gathering of the editors! Lovely to chat with you afterwards.

I loved Bristol Broadsides. I have history books, poetry, reminiscences of cinema (I think that one was BB). Wonderful press. Big part of my sense of Bristol as a teenager.

The Godfather Starring Marlon Brando in his Oscar®-winning performance as the patriarch of the Corleone family, this first installment in the three-movie saga paints a dramatic portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise ...

Coming up next in @wshed.bsky.social season
Walter Murch: The Art of the Cut - The Godfather. 11 May, 14.00. And don’t miss Murch himself, 15 May. Book here for this special evening: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1317...

A young train driver looks out of pale yellow train locomotive smiling whilst his colleague looks at him

Destination: Bristol, UK
Cinema Rediscovered
23 - 27 July 2025

Places to stay & practical info:
www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

Image: Věra Chytilová’s Kalamita (Czechoslovakia 1982), one of the 50+ film events at the fest taking place at cinemas incl. @wshed.bsky.social & @cubecinema.com

Flyer for 'Unfolding Time' exhibition, with opening times 9:30-17:00 Monday to Friday and until 19:15 on Thursdays.

⌛ Final Week ⌛

Time is running out to visit our current exhibition:

'Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar' – closing 15 May. 🕰️

🔗Opening times + digital highlights:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/unfolding-time

#UnfoldingTime #MedievalSky #BookHistory 📜

7:45pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

👌Worth a Watch👌

The 1962 short documentary film🎥 “Nine, Dalmuir West” directed by #KevinBrownlow

An atmospheric homage to #Glasgow’s tram system following the last #Tram to run in September 1962

Updating our #silentfilm live events listings once again tonight. Lots more to see. For details check out silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

I'm addressing this a little in my PhD thesis on Buster Keaton's filmmaking process, would be great to follow this train of thought with you sometime.

Paging @tubalzoo.bsky.social ✂️🎞️⬆️

Looking forward to this!

Her Name Was Moviola + Walter Murch in Conversation We’re honoured to welcome triple Oscar®-winner Walter Murch, one of cinema’s most acclaimed film and sound editors, to Bristol for a very special screening and in-conversation event to celebrate the l...

This will be great. Triple Oscar®-winner Walter Murch, one of cinema’s most acclaimed film and sound editors, comes to @wshed.bsky.social for a special screening and in-conversation event to launch his memoir Suddenly Something Clicked. 15 May 2025. Book here: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1317...

YouTube video by Kodak Aspect Ratios with Sinners Director Ryan Coogler

Warner Bros and Kodak released a 10+ minute video of Ryan Coogler explaining how he shot Sinners on film and how people can see it in different formats in theaters. This is some of the best film promo I’ve seen in years.

youtu.be/78Ru62uFM0s?...

Nicholas Brothers klaxon 📢

Buster Keaton ready for a good inning.

#oldhollywood #damfino #busterkeaton #silentfilm

Fun MakerSpace Day with @titachico.bsky.social at #BristolCommonPress and #TheatreCollection with print, mirrors & a terrifying murder clown

Constance Talmadge in Polly of the Follies (1922)

#oldhollywood #constancetalmadge #silentfilm

Original release print of STAR WARS???!!!!!!!!!

BFI Film on Film Festival line-up includes original release print of Star Wars and Twin Peaks pilot episode with special guest Kyle MacLachlan The festival opens with a glorious dye-transfer original British release print of Star Wars, and will close with a pristine 35mm print of the original US pilot episode of Twin Peaks, screening for the...

BFI Film on Film Festival is back 🤩 www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-fil...

Kennington Bioscope presents The Sound of Laughter » The Cinema Museum, London Kennington Bioscope presents a fun-packed day of vintage film comedies from the 1930s, on the big screen. A spin-off from the ever-popular Silent Laughter events, this all-dayer will feature some of t...

Save the date! May 24th: a full day of 1930s comedy films at The Cinema Museum! Laurel & Hardy, W.C.Fields, Aldwych Farces and more, plus a rare chance to see Buster Keaton in a wonderful French sound feature. Full details tbc, but here's a flavour:
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...

The Lost Laugh magazine More on the great comedians featured here can be found in The Lost Laugh e-zine. As well as exclusive, in-depth articles featuring new research, you’ll also find DVD reviews, guest contr…

The Lost Laugh is a blog and free-ezine devoted to silent and early sound film comedy. There have been fourteen issues, and I'm currently working on the fifteenth. They're free to download as pdfs here: thelostlaugh.com/magazine/

Won't you look at that! 😍

A screenshot of an Instagram reel showing a black and white frame of Buster Keaton in ‘Steamboat Bill Jr’ (1928, filmed 1927). Buster is standing on a small table in a deserted theatre about to pull a rope that will make him disappear. The Instagram text shows that the music playing is ‘All Coming Back To Me Now’ by Céline Dion. The hashtags read #busterkeaton and #siegfriedandjoy

Buster Keaton, master of comic timing, was ready for his #siegfriedandjoy magic moment 98 years early…

#BusterKeaton
#ItsAllComingBackToMeNow

www.instagram.com/reel/DIHeHdH...

A screen grab from my Love Affairs to Remember video essay whichI'm discussing later, exploring Love Affair (1939), An Affair to Remember (1957), Love Affair (1994) and and a Bollywood version, Mann (1999). Can't wait to share this and get feedback!