@hennefem.bsky.social
Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
What’s the movie you genuinely enjoy that is known for being bad?
Isn't this 99.9% of cinematic pleasure??
It is ofc out of print bc that's how the BFI honours its film fellows. It's on BFI Player online, although w/o my DVD essay.
Had an amazing screening @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social in Bristol in 2016, where audience responded w *joy* & exhilaration throughout.
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An entire city became a billboard. Epstein files. The client list. Projected across buildings for everyone to see. No one could look away. No one could scroll past. The streets became the screen. This is what happens when the internet goes outside!
The Spring @filmquarterly.bsky.social is stacked w/ #openaccess horror: Elinor Dolliver schools us on analog horror, Mina Radović explains Yugoslav animal horror, @tonyeatspuppies.bsky.social identifies a new trio of witches in LONGLEGS, BRING HER BACK & WEAPONS.
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getting in the mood for the Walker Art Center's Agnès Varda retrospective this week!!!! 🎞️❤️
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Happy International Nasty Women's Day!!!! No better way to celebrate than by nabbing your copy of these **feminist film books**--extant & forthcoming--by our curators and sisters! 😍🎞️📚
Links in the comments below... What feminist films books are lighting up your life right now? ⁉️
oohhh, i'm dying to see this film!!
Happy to make my LA Review of Books debut writing about how the spectre of photographer Francesca Woodman haunts Mascha Schilinski’s stunning film SOUND OF FALLING.
Read: lareviewofbooks.org/article/perh...
I wrote 900 words on THE BRIDE!
my new life goal is to visit every one of these beautiful cinemas. 📽️ www.timeout.com/film/the-100...
BREAKING PLATES, Physical TV's rollicking collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, directed by @karenpearlman.bsky.social, produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, has its New York Premiere Sun March 15, 7.25pm, Cinema Village. Tickets $15 (scroll down): www.ratedsrfilms.org/tickets-srff...
A masterpiece back on the big screen, a cat picture, and some book news! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/05/b...
Excellent news from @silentlondon.bsky.social in ref to a new book and #SilentFilm Queen Kelly (1929) silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/05/b...
today!!!!
“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.”
My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less.
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The 2026 SCMS election results are in.
Thanks to everyone who voted and helped shape the future of SCMS.
See the full results here: buff.ly/4um97Xz
People are still trapped in their homes in my neighborhood here in Jason's ward, unable to go to work (at jobs which may not even exist anymore), sick with worry over how they’ll pay utilities and remain housed.
It's not over. ICE is still here, and the least we can do is afford families more time.
Can't tell you how excited I already am for this year's edition.
"Now a 2025 “re-imagining” of the project, with some story expansion and enhancement of its atmosphere, a 4K digital makeover, and an outstanding new score by Eli Denson, is making the art-house rounds." - Betsy Sherman. artsfuse.org/324928/film-...
BREAKING PLATES is coming to NYC on March 15th!!! Don't miss it! ‼️
Where: Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street New York, 10003
When: Sunday March 15, 2026, at 7.25pm
Festival Schedule: www.ratedsrfilms.org/the-schedule...
*Spread the word!!* 🍽️🧨
@physicaltv.bsky.social
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My PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERS box set featured on “Silent Sundays” to kick off #WomensHistoryMonth!! Thanks @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social! 📀
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For this week’s Silent Sundays, I’m highlighting five silent films to watch for Women's History Month, featuring films directed by Alice Guy Blaché, Mabel Normand, Lois Weber, Marion E. Wong, and Elsie Jane Wilson.
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read all about it and watch GUGUSSE ET L'AUTOMATE (1897) on the @librarycongress.bsky.social website!! 😍
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The highlight of my weekend (not a high bar) was hearing this NPR newscaster rhapsodize over the rediscovery of a long-lost early robot film by the "pioneering 19th C French filmmaker Jorjis Malia." 🤖🎞️
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^Approx timecode = 3min, 15 secs.
I made a silent film Instagram:
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