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A Taste of Silents, and more, by HippFest

Silent reading: Summer 2025 book reviews

Silent films go pop

C.A. Lejeune and British film criticism: book and lecture news

Anna May Wong: the Art of Reinvention

Catching trains, raising riots and trashing the kitchen: travels in feminist cinema

Silent reading: Spring 2025 book reviews

A Woman of Paris (1923): Criterion releases Charlie Chaplin’s ‘drama of fate’

Weimar Berlin in silence and song with South West Silents

An Oscar for Flow: The dialogue-free animation of Gints Zilbalodis

The Silent London Poll of 2024: And the winners are …

Season’s greetings 2024

The new Nosferatu: silent-style horror in 2025

The Silent London Poll of 2024: vote for your winners now

Beyond Gladiator: the ancient world on the silent screen

Silent Sherlock at the London Film Festival: the game is afoot

Women and the Silent Screen XII: Call for papers

Slapstick 2025: for the love of silent comedy

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2024: Pordenone Post No 8

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2024: Pordenone Post No 1

Sine Nomine: Unseen and unidentified silent films at Pordenone 2024

Stephen Horne’s score for The Manxman: album news

Poil de Carotte (1925): a young boy’s living hell

Silent bulletin: news for September 2024

How Mabel Normand Made Her Mark in Comedy: “I had to cleave a new path to laughter”

Man With a Movie Camera – With the Original Score

New media nostalgia and the revival of silent cinema style

The Artist on stage at Theatre Royal Plymouth

Napoléon vu par Netflix: What next for Abel Gance’s 1927 epic?

Clara Bow: Taylor Swift’s It Girl era

San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2024: exposure to the shadows of the past

Hippfest 2024: seduced by silents

Your silent cinema Valentine

The Silent London Poll of 2023: And the winners are …

Frances Marion for Hippfest at Home

Season’s greetings, Silent Londoners

The Silent London Poll of 2023: vote for your winners now

Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: a refreshing take on the history of film, theatre and art

Danish and German Silent Cinema review: the rich entanglements of transnational filmmaking

The First Year (1926): The cure for matrimonial measles

After Alice, Beyond Lois: Celebrating the Women Film Pioneers Project at MoMA

The Magician (1926): Rex Ingram, Michael Powell and the French Riviera

Phantom Pipes: Häxan at Regent Street Cinema

Booking now: Neil Brand’s An Evening with Laurel and Hardy

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The White Sister (1923): Lillian Gish’s leap of faith

Happy dance

The Signal Tower (Clarence Brown, 1924): the romance of the rails

Pordenone season

A Chaplin tribute to Carl Davis

Watch Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917): lost footage rediscovered

Brigitte Helm: the perils of hedonism

Pirmoji Banga 2023: Come up and see Mae sometime

Buster goes to the seaside: Kent MOMI relaunches this week

In memoriam: Carl Davis

Open Pandora’s Box on Eureka Blu-ray this year

Shhh… Chichester International Film Festival celebrates the silents

The mechanics of Mission: Impossible

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023: women who worry and men who don’t

The Story of Victorian Film by Bryony Dixon: experiments that changed the world

Silent Cinema Rediscovered: Salomé, Together and more in Bristol

BFI Film on Film Festival: Special offer for Silent London readers

The Dance of Cartesian Dualism

Silent dispatches Spring 2023: essays, films and festivals

The Lodger and Minima: Special offer for Silent London readers

Ossi, Marion and Julie: Gender Rebels in Bristol

Bologna and beyond… Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023

Hippfest 2023: the early days

1923 all over again

Hippfest hooray: the 2023 programme launches today

Three Minutes: A Lengthening – the heartbreaking archive documentary on BBC iPlayer now

The Silent London Poll of 2022: And the winners are …

Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time review: a stirringly evocative tour of times past

Book news: The Red Shoes

Season’s Greetings, Silent Londoners!

Hippfest 2023: passes, podcasts and promises

The Greatest Silent Film Poll of 2022: vote for your winners now

Introducing Hitch-22

Video: behind the scenes with Charlie Chaplin on City Lights

Silent shouts: books, blogs, festivals and more

The silences of Jeanne Dielman and the greatest films of all time

Funny Valentines: Silent comedy at Slapstick 2023

Amaryllis (2022): diary of a teenage skater girl

The Silent Muse: The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen – Special Offer

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