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Film Forum · KEVIN BROWNLOW KEVIN BROWNLOW Friday, October 24 – Thursday, November 6

Amazing 36-film series at Film Forum in New York to honour the legendary Kevin Brownlow. filmforum.org/series/kevin...

Drop some eyes 👀

MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE (1926) aka "What if Hal Roach did Die Fledermaus and made it even sassier?"

Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️

📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!

Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto also has a fantastic online #SilentFilm festival running alongside the Pordenone screenings, highly recommended if you can't make it to the festival in person.

www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/abbonamenti-...

John Boorman and Bristol: SWS | South West Silents

More than 72% of tickets now sold for screening of rarely seen Bristol films 26 October with @swsilents.bsky.social. Book here: www.southwestsilents.com/event-detail...

We've reactivated WFHI's listserv!!

You can join here:
lists.simplelists.com/WFHINetwork/...

We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!

Awwww! Never seen this one before, how lovely.

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