@nastysilents
Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/ https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
“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.
stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...
Excellent news from @silentlondon.bsky.social in ref to a new book and #SilentFilm Queen Kelly (1929) silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/05/b...
A masterpiece back on the big screen, a cat picture, and some book news! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/05/b...
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...
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
Just in time for Hippfest!! Which is offering a digital pass for online streaming this year. 🎞️📺😍 www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/202...
March's theme is... Scotland!
I will be reviewing silent films set in Scotland, shot in Scotland, portraying Scottish culture, as well as featuring some of the great Scottish talents of the silent era.
moviessilently.com/2026/03/01/t...
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.
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/five-silen...
My PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERS box set featured on “Silent Sundays” to kick off #WomensHistoryMonth!! Thanks @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social! 📀
@kinolorber.com
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Nitrate Dreamland
I made a silent film Instagram:
www.instagram.com/nitratedream...
What’s especially annoying about the “not your grandparents’ silent movies”framing (if that’s what they’re trying to do) is that the silent film era was way more progressive and experimental for that sales point! h/t @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social
truly love to see a post about a lost Méilès film being found blow up on my timeline. silent film lives!
Today at Egyptian Theatre!
Every-night Dreams & Apart From You by #MikioNaruse, with live benshi performance by Ichiro Kataoka and musical accompaniment by myself
@amcinematheque.bsky.social @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
#silentfilm #benshi #livemusic
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
Thanks @dwhdaily.bsky.social for the shout-out to my interview with @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social in the Feb round-up of Criterion Daily!! (Read all the @criteriondaily.bsky.social book recs and watch FILIBUS: THE MYSTERIOUS AIR PIRATE!) 🎞️‼️
www.criterion.com/current/post...
Delighted to be hosting a book launch for the new edited collection WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD’S DREAM FACTORY: TALES OF INEQUALITY, ABUSE & RESISTANCE. Join us March 18. 📚
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Somehow it’s the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book CINEMA HER WAY today! Here’s a little wrap-up of the book’s first journey around the sun.
#unboxing advance copies of my new book!!! #TransCinema @ucpress.bsky.social
have now made this a list on @letterboxd.social
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Nicholas Baer will give a talk at the University of Minnesota next Thurs (March 5th) at 5:30 PM in 216 Pillsbury Dr., Room 135. UMN folks, don't miss it!!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social
cla.umn.edu/gnsd/news-ev...
Guess whose series premiered in 1910!!! 🎈🎈🎈
Finding babies, uprooting them by one arm, and then laying them down with a *thunk* in Alice Guy's 1900 film THE CABBAGE PATCH FAIRY.
Great piece by @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social on lost silent films, some of which don't leave behind much more of a trace than these eye-catching lobby posters!! 😍🎞️
oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/favorite-p...
This week for Silent Sundays, a look back at five lost films made by Bluebird Photoplays with a little history lesson about the filmmakers and stars who made them.
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/favorite-p...
@physicaltv.bsky.social @karenpearlman.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @wfhinetwork.bsky.social
Hey NYC nasty women!!! We're overjoyed to announce that Karen Pearlman's brilliant archival doc BREAKING PLATES will screen in NYC at Cinema Village on March 15 in the 2026 Socially Relevant Film Festival. 🍽️🌪️📽️
*Please spread the word and don't miss the film! ❤️*
www.ratedsrfilms.org/the-schedule...
An 1897 hand-colored dance film. The performers are crowded to stay in-frame but they soldier on.
Dance films were popular color subjects as the moving costumes disguised any flaws in the application
youtu.be/kk-pTXzQp4c
JOB POST in FILM STUDIES: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social is hiring Lecturer w specialism(s) in 1 or more of following: 1) Film & Media Practice as Research / Filmmaking; 2) Film Curation +/or Archiving; 3) Non-Fiction Film & Media. Deadline MAR 2nd! Please pass along. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137766-...
Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour: Twin Cities 2026 is a wrap!!!! Thanks everyone who came to the screenings or supported the festival in any way!!! We love you and will be back next year for more Valentine's movie mayhem. ❤️🎞️🎊 @archivesonscreen.org
It's the final day of IL CINEMA RITROVATO ON TOUR! Join us for all the heartbreak and drama as this year's festival comes to a close. 💔 🎞
• THE ARCH
1:00 PM, mspfilm.org/show/the-arch/
• THE GIRLS
4:00 PM, mspfilm.org/show/the-gir...
• FLOATING CLOUDS
7:00 PM, mspfilm.org/show/floatin...
