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Silent London is a silent cinema blog based in... you can guess where. It began life as a listings site for silent film screenings in London. That is no longer the case.
Silent London Blog
6h ago
I was looking for Yoda when I bumped into Eadweard Muybridge. These are the circles film history moves in. This year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the 27th, took place in the grandeur of the theatre of the Palace of Fine Arts, an elegant neo-classical folly of gigantic proportions, built as a temporary attraction for ..read more
Silent London Blog
3w ago
The fashionable set is always the first to name a trend. So if you know you know, but if you don’t know you need to know that 2024 is the year of Coquette Core, a prettified aesthetic that can be boiled down to: put a bow on it. That’s technically a beribboned bow with a ..read more
Silent London Blog
2M ago
If you truly love something, let he, she, they or it know. Now, in this instance, I am talking about silent film, and it is the season for wearing your heart on your sleeve, so here’s an opportunity to do just that. Coincidentally, if you are the sort of person who has considered giving up ..read more
Silent London Blog
2M ago
I may be a humble blogger typing at my desk, but just imagine I am a glamorous celebrity cracking first-rate jokes while wearing a designer ballgown. I have counted the votes, and I am ready to announce the winners of the Silent London Poll of 2023! Congratulations to all the people mentioned below – as ..read more
Silent London Blog
3M ago
Hippfest approaches! But before the IRL festival in Bo’ness, 20-24 March, the Hippfest at Home programme promises online treats for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. And the first event is coming up very soon indeed! Next Friday evening, 26 January, I will be delivering a lecture called Frances Marion: Hollywood’s ..read more
Silent London Blog
4M ago
I am just about to sign off for the year, so I wanted to take a moment to thank you for reading, and supporting, this blog in 2023. This year has been another very challenging one, on the world stage, and in the arts, but I continue to be impressed by the resilience, energy and ..read more
Silent London Blog
4M ago
Season’s greetings Silent Londoners. It’s that time of year when we like to look back at the year, and especially at all the great silent movies we watched. 2023 was a busy year. We had in-person and online film festivals, seasons, screenings and conferences, some fabulous new restorations, discs and some big anniversaries. We had ..read more
Silent London Blog
4M ago
Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema, Vito Adriaensens, Edniburgh University Press 2023 This is a guest post by Alex Barrett for Silent London. Alex Barrett is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in London. All too often over the years, the term “theatrical” has been thrown at films as an insult, as ..read more
Silent London Blog
6M ago
Danish and German Silent Cinema: Towards a Common Film Culture, Edited by: Lars-Martin Sørensen and Casper Tybjerg, Edinburgh University Press, 2023 This is a guest post by Alex Barrett for Silent London. Alex Barrett is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in London. At its simplest, the history of silent film in Denmark and Germany can be seen as ..read more
Silent London Blog
6M ago
This is an expanded version of an essay I wrote for Sight and Sound in 2020. The First Year (Frank Borzage, 1926) screens this week at MoMA on the opening night of the After Alice, Beyond Lois programme, curated by Kate Saccone and Dave Kehr to commemorate 10 years of the Women Film Pioneers Project ..read more