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PaulAJoyce

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I write about silent film and theatre when I’m not publishing, cycling, walking or listening. Flaps of the blue butterfly’s wings will feature LFC. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We're off to #Dorset and then #Stonehenge with #JackHargreaves at 8:30am in 🚜 OUT OF TOWN (1986) #TPTVsubtitles
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
@thelastdinnerparty.bsky.social are old school show people, they blew the lid off the Brixton Academy tonight and the audience was SO loud, like being at a Beatles concert with Elvis Presley on vocals!! Mighty!
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Rocky, Kiss and, um, Michael Crawford: Some Mothers Do ‘ave ‘em.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A rare 35mm Weimar treat unearthed by Tony Fletcher @BFI archive, starring Andrée Lafayette, Bernhard Goetzke and the multi-talented former Barcelona player Félix de Pomés! Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
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Don't be judgy… The Hangman (1928) with Colin Sell, Kennington Bioscope
This was a Weimar surprise unearthed on 35mm from the BFI’s archives by the diligence of Tony Fletcher and given its first outing in man...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The first feature film?
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A movie that takes place where you’re from…
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A rare 35mm Weimar treat unearthed by Tony Fletcher @BFI archive, starring Andrée Lafayette, Bernhard Goetzke and the multi-talented former Barcelona player Félix de Pomés! Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
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Don't be judgy… The Hangman (1928) with Colin Sell, Kennington Bioscope
This was a Weimar surprise unearthed on 35mm from the BFI’s archives by the diligence of Tony Fletcher and given its first outing in man...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
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Kennington Bioscope presents Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Kennington Bioscope presents a jam-packed day of special presentations, some rediscoveries and restorations and a few old favourites too.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
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Kennington Bioscope presents Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Kennington Bioscope presents a jam-packed day of special presentations, some rediscoveries and restorations and a few old favourites too.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is for the McIntyres in my family and my pal Gregor from Paisley!! Gettinnn!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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a blue and white flag with an x on it
ALT: a blue and white flag with an x on it
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Nice review for Criterion's 4K of HELL'S ANGELS (1930) and some kind words for my visual essay on Jean Harlow, from Glenn Erickson at Trailers From Hell. trailersfromhell.com/hells-angels...
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Hell's Angels  - 4K - Trailers From Hell
A 4K remaster puts a high polish on Howard Hughes’ WW1 air war epic — an enormous personal project that allowed the playboy tycoon to indulge his obsessions for women, movies and especially aviation. ...
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 15/11/2025
👏👏👏
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I finally absorbed the BFI's new Blu-ray release featuring a 21st Century score for a film as much about 1925 as the events it depicts from 1905. That said, resistance is timeless. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/pet-...
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Pet Shop Potemkin… Battleship Potemkin (1925), BFI Blu-ray
Eisenstein apparently said that the film should have a new soundtrack for every decade to  complement his imagery, which has remained so...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“At least 2.5 million Muslim soldiers and labourers are reported to have fought with the Allied forces in the First World War and 5.5 million in the Second World War. Nearly 1.5 million Muslims were killed in action.” news.sky.com/story/memori....
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Memorial to be built for Muslim soldiers who fought and died alongside UK troops in World Wars
At least 2.5 million Muslim soldiers and labourers are reported to have fought with the Allied forces in the First World War and 5.5 million in the Second World War. Nearly 1.5 million Muslims were ki...
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Chris Barton @chrisbarton01.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
#SamCooke You Send Me open.spotify.com/track/6gbv4E...
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You Send Me
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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Frank Fisher Apartments, Andrew Rebori, Chicago, 1939
Frank Fisher Apartments, Andrew Rebori, Chicago, 1939
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Monica Vitti, born 3 November 1931.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
A full day of electronica at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool for Levitation 2025 run by the remarkable @castlesinspace.bsky.social . So much variety and truly spellbinding sets from Loula Yorke, Field Lines Cartographer, Pulselovers (natch) and others.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Anyone at @castlesinspace.bsky.social Levitation 2025 who wants to see the complete silent film Pulselovers are projecting onto their guitar amp… here it is! Stan & Ollie, Sailors Beware (1927)! m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLc6...
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Laurel & Hardy - Sailors, Beware!
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Happy Birthday to the legendary Lee Grant!
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Monkey’s Paw (2025), The Hope Theatre until 8th November. A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ re-working of the famous horror story that foregrounds the social issues of pre-WWI Britain whilst also spooking you out! #Herbert GO SEE IT! ithankyoutheatre.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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The paw law… The Monkey’s Paw (2025), The Hope Theatre
Steven Maddocks and Josephine Rogers (photo  Cam Harle ) The Hope Theatre gets inside your head, it’s a box of delights that closes in on ...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Comes with two shirts…
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I couldn’t resist Arthur *and* Sid!!
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Outstanding release from the BFI of Ken Russell's finest on UHD - which gives the film the look and analysis it richly deserves! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
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Rainbow’s End? Women in Love (1969), BFI UHD out now!
"She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Prestatyn’s own Peggy Cummins!!
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I can't begin to explain what it's like here. So I won't bother.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Outstanding release from the BFI of Ken Russell's finest on UHD - which gives the film the look and analysis it richly deserves! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
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Rainbow’s End? Women in Love (1969), BFI UHD out now!
"She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Blackley Conkers Championship 1932?
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Mungo got a bit wet on his walk… and he’s blaming me!
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Yet again…
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Released 49 years ago today "New Rose", the first single by the Damned #punk #punks #punkrock #newrose #thedamned #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Voters want more balanced broadcast coverage of political parties, new research by @yougov.co.uk and Cardiff Uni shared with PolHome suggests Lib Dem culture spox Anna Sabine MP said the findings are a rejection of "wall-to-wall coverage" of Reform UK, which leader Ed Davey has complained about
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Public Wants More Balanced Coverage Of Political Parties, New Polling Suggests
Voters want more balanced broadcast coverage of political parties to reflect the emerging multi-party system, new research from YouGov and Cardiff ...
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Jim Parrett 🍁 @jymn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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It's All over Now Baby Blue - Marianne Faithfull | The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
YouTube video by estelle mccartney ♡
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
ANFIELD CRISIS ⚽️ ANFIELD CRISIS ⚽️ ANFIELD CRISIS ⚽️ ANFIELD CRISIS ⚽️ ANFIELD CRISIS ⚽️ !!!!! Nah… plenty of time…
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Threads is magnifying any remotely divisive issues and is full of bots. 10k views for a post about the Have I Got News For You error on Ewan Blair. That’s depressing enough but I don’t have that many followers…
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Terence Towles Canote @mercurie80.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Today in 1927 Sir Roger Moore was born.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Last report from the last day of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto - Charlie, Buster, Natalie, Jackie Gleeson and Italia Almirante Manzini!! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/trai...
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Train keeps a runnin’… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto #44 Day Eight
That was the week that was… and it was a Festival of many parts as director Jay Weissberg noted as he introduced the final night’s gala ...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Emphatically this!!! #ThinkIndie
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 11/10/2025
Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester celebrate their new American citizenship, 1950
Laughton and Lanchester hold up papers, smiling, arms around each other, American flag on wall behind them.
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A large crowd of kids gathered outside a theater showing THE AIR MAIL (1925) plus an Our Gang short
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Well, this is nice - name-checked by Criterion for my coverage of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto along with @silentlondon.bsky.social , both of us writing daily on the films! 😎 www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Parallax Views
This week: Essays on Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophie Fillières, and Miguel Gomes, a talk with Wes Anderson, and an AI experiment.
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Day Seven at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto comes with an adult content warning. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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The fault in our Tsar… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Seven
If Hammer made Soviet historical dramas with a propagandist edge in the silent era it would probably be exactly like The Wings of a Serf ...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Me too!! Ivan the really psychotic!!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Wigan pit brow lasses, or coal mine surface workers, 19th century (WiganWorld).
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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"This was an excellent lecture by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı aka The Nasty Women Collective which highlighted the tremendous importance of costume in the act of creating the chaos of comedy...I hadn’t expected to be so fascinated in the subject but that’s education for you."
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
From Pompei to the sea bed via confused parents and others in denial. And, blessed are the costume designers with their help we can smash the patriarchy! Day Six at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/epic...
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Epic Thursday… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Six
White Heather (1919) Are Parents People? (1925) with Neil Brand Not a lot of people know this but, when this film was screened at the K...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A poignant day in Pordenone at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto - dominated by the Great War and all points afterwards. But we also saw Musidora, Betty Balfour and Leontine!! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/futi...
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Futility… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Five
In the rush to fall over each other’s opinions we forget that there can be no winners in a war of words or of bombs. In the battle to pe...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A poignant day in Pordenone at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto - dominated by the Great War and all points afterwards. But we also saw Musidora, Betty Balfour and Leontine!! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/futi...
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Futility… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Five
In the rush to fall over each other’s opinions we forget that there can be no winners in a war of words or of bombs. In the battle to pe...
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A night in Le Giornate del Cinema Muto that I won't forget silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5
It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…
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