Pordenone is basically a very long tram ride, and although the views at every stop are very diverting, I have no intention of disembarking any time soon.

Pola Negri – Asta from Poland Buffalo Bill… She is a star in our homeland Buffalo Bill…   Warsaw cabaret song circa 1917 Befor...

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If you are anything like me, then you may well consider the two-hour flight to Italy for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival at least partially justified by the chance to see four minutes of a lost …

The long hot summer of 2026 continues here at Pordenone. The first day of festivities for the 45th Pordenone Silent Film Festival dawned with a blaze of sunshine, a bustling market and an abundance…

Looking at the canon of German films from the silent era, there is not much to laugh about. Apart from a few early films by Ernst Lubitsch, it contains…

The inaugural festival runs September 17-20 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland.

PLUS We review SPA WEEKEND, MUTINY and BOUNTIFUL; Local pics rule b.o. in Romania and Japan; Fantastic Fest trailers; The beautiful lost stars of ICE PRINCESS; and, Ken Loach’s KES.

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Katherine Fusco; Maggie Hennefeld, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema, American Literary History, Volume 38, Issue 3, 1 July 2026, Pages 1

Silent Sundays: Silent Film Streaming Picks

Silent Sundays: Silent Film Streaming Picks

This four-disc set showcase more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play.

Journal of Film Preservation, No. 114, April 2026

Pamela Hutchinson, author of The Curse of Queen Kelly • Rob Farr, author of Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew (72:12)

“One of these days men are going to get over the fool idea that women have no brains…and quit getting insulted at the thought that a skirt-wearer can do their work quite as well as they can. And I …

Journal of Film Preservation, No. 114, April 2026