my new life goal is to visit every one of these beautiful cinemas. 📽️ www.timeout.com/film/the-100...
@hennefem
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
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.
stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...
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
10/10
My PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERS box set featured on “Silent Sundays” to kick off #WomensHistoryMonth!! Thanks @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social! 📀
@kinolorber.com
open.substack.com/pub/oldfilms...
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...
read all about it and watch GUGUSSE ET L'AUTOMATE (1897) on the @librarycongress.bsky.social website!! 😍
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...
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." 🤖🎞️
dcs-cached.megaphone.fm/NPR715431793...
^Approx timecode = 3min, 15 secs.
Nitrate Dreamland
I made a silent film Instagram:
www.instagram.com/nitratedream...
lots of gems streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social this March!! 😍🎞️
BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/s9152d
fuck imperialism. 😡
Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.
FQ’s Spring issue is free to read!
Oscars: One Battle After Another & Interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho
Horrors: The She-Butterfly & The Rat-Savior at 50, The New Witch Triad, Analog Horror & Spoorloos
Reports: Athens, New/Next + MoMA
online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/3
@ucpress.bsky.social
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
This is why people are still trapped in their homes here, unable to go to their jobs (jobs which may not even exist anymore), sick with worry over how they’ll pay bills and remain housed.
Rent is due on Sunday.
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
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...
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...
Aliya Rahman -- who was dragged out of her car by 4 masked ICE agents and brutally detained at the Whipple Center last month -- was again violently arrested last night by Capitol police at the State of the Union. She was Ilhan Omar's invited guest. 😡😡😡 www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...