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Here for cinema, esp silent cinema and Hollywood, plus art, animals.y_gwenda on X. Pub:Clarence Brown:Hollywood’s Forgotten Master. Researching Mickey Neilan

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Ireland's wildlife, Saltee islands

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Gorgeous Iceland 🇮🇸

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Film fragment, Marshall Neilan research. Paris.
Another 'Forgotten Director'?🤔

07.03.2025 14:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In “Documenting the Territory in Saint-Louis (Senegal)”, Laura Feal Sánchez interviews Mamadou Sellou Diallo, exploring his work in the creation of “audiovisual projects” that “document a space in all its complexity”
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19.02.2025 12:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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In “The Muestra de Cine Afrodescendencias in Costa Chica: Intersections of Afrodescendance and Decoloniality in Curatorial Practice” Claudia Lora et al analyse “the curatorial work and collective exhibition of the Muestra de Cinea Afrodescendencias
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Alphaville Issue 28, Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals. Table of Contents Issue 28 - This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures. Beginning with the question of what and whose ...

Issue 28 features an array of book reviews, from City Films, to Gaza on Screen, to studies of auteurs such as Yasujirō Ozu and Preston Sturges, to pandemics & zombies! doi.org/10.33178/alp...

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Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies, by Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the mass inequalities experienced in late-stage capitalism. This recent rediscovery of the sociological shifts enabled by disease makes Diseased Cinema an appropriately t...

Kane Geary O’Keeffe @Mouldyfajita reviews Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies, by Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social @OKState_History and Lee Mordechai published @edinburghup.bsky.social
doi.org/10.33178/alp...

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New issue of Alphaville 👇🏼

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Check out the latest issue of Alphaville, hot off the presses!

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Issue 28 is launched! “Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals” edited by Sheila Petty and Estrella Sendra @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uregina.bsky.social @filmstudiesff.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...

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a drawing of a girl standing in front of the number 28 by minka comics.com ALT: a drawing of a girl standing in front of the number 28 by minka comics.com

Coming soon..............

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Charles Burnett’s Lost Comedy ‘The Annihilation of Fish’ Lands 4K Theatrical Release — Watch the Trailer Charles Burnett's lost comedy 'The Annihilation of Fish' has a 4K release.

Charles Burnett's Annihilation of Fish trailer has been made public! www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...

17.01.2025 18:44 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 6
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Donna Hill, 1960 – 2024 Silent film biographer and researcher Donna Hill, 64, died in her San Francisco apartment on Dec. 30. Donna helped me with just about all of my books, supplying contacts, facts, and great gossip. In 2010 she wrote the gorgeous coffee-table book Rudolph Valentino the Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs, and at the time of her death was working on a Dorothy Gish bio. One online “virtual friend” wrote that Donna was “a kind, thoughtful, unfailingly generous friend, and a helpful and supportive sch

This is a lovely obit for our friend, Donna Hill: www.evesobits.com/post/donna-h...

01.01.2025 03:27 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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‘The King of Comedy’ at 42.

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The King of Comedy’ remains a chillingly relevant satire on fame, obsession, and loneliness. Explore the film’s making, themes, and legacy in our deep dive.

cinephiliabeyond.org/the-king-of-...

18.02.2025 21:00 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
Black and white photo, circa 1916. He has short, blac, straight hair. He is wearing a black suit, a stripped tie and a white shirt with high collar.

Black and white photo, circa 1916. He has short, blac, straight hair. He is wearing a black suit, a stripped tie and a white shirt with high collar.

Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith, August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933), was a Canadian-American actor, film director and producer. He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford.

Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wik...

#silentfilm #silentera #cinema #film

13.02.2025 01:05 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.

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Bogie's little helpers: the shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942. 🙂

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Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap? Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod next week

Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap? www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

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CFP from THE MOVING IMAGE!
Special issue: "Reassessing Small Gauge, Amateur, and Nontheatrical Film"
Guest editors: Hugo Ljungbäck, Louisa Trott, and Patricia Ledesma Villon
Proposals due — April 1, 2025
Final manuscripts due — October 1, 2025

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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media Alphaville is a fully peer-reviewed journal edited and pu...

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media's issue 7 is "Corporeal Cinema" - much good reading http://alphavillejournal.com via @alphavillej

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Obituary for Claude Jarman, a generous, talented man who I was honored to know for 20 yrs. He was great company when we were guests , w/
@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social, at Clarence Brown Film Festival Aug. 2023, organized by
Knox County Public Library & U of Tennessee.
www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

19.01.2025 17:29 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Digital copy of the original linocut print of the strawboy design (black and white, crosshatched background, featuring someone wearing the straws, with a wren on each side)

Digital copy of the original linocut print of the strawboy design (black and white, crosshatched background, featuring someone wearing the straws, with a wren on each side)

The Wren is still strong in parts of Ireland, notably Kerry, with elements entwined with nature and the old pagan roots of this time of year.

"Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wran"

Giclée prints of the original linocut here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

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On 11 December 1924, Dublin's Corinthian was showing The Signal Tower (US: Universal, 1924), directed by Clarence Brown, "the perfect melodrama, realistic and thrilling enough to satisfy even the most exciting audience." Images: Evening Herald, IMDb & Archiseek. #EarlyIrishCinema

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2025 BRUSSELS & ANTWERP, BELGIUM — Women and Film History International Registration available for the Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference for our members. Click Here to register and learn more

You still have this weekend to submit to Women and the Silent Screen XII, "Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema."

06.12.2024 16:38 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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Call for Papers: Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII – Entangled Media: Past and Present 18-20 June 2025, University of Lincoln This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of …

⏰ Proposals are due TODAY for my very favorite conference: Doing Women’s Film & Television History, to be held June 18-20 at the University of Lincoln.
womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/c...

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Proposals for Women and the Silent Screen XII are due December 2, 2024!

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What’s up #silentfilm folk? Let’s gather our friends around and make this space soar!

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