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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 13/09/2026

The @grandillusioncinema.org & @siffnews.bsky.social present a brand new 35mm print of Tsai Ming-Liang’s THE HOLE. September 18 & 20 at the SIFF Film Center. “Impressive a quarter century ago, it seems even more so today.” J. Hoberman, The New York Times grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-hol...

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We’re warming up the Bat Projector for tonight’s show w/ @grandillusioncinema.org at SIFF Film Center! A special 60th anniversary of BATMAN (1966) w/ Adam West! Plus on 16mm: a serial episode from BATMAN & ROBIN (1949) & a couple 60s Saturday AM Bat cartoons! grandillusioncinema.org/film/batman-...

Original poster for the 1966 movie BATMAN, a tie-in to the campy hit TV show and starring the TV cast.

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sunday 8/23 @ 7:00 PM, we’re part of the @grandillusioncinema.org show at SIFF Film Center, screening an episode of the serial BATMAN & ROBIN (1949) + a cpl ‘60s Sat morning Bat-cartoons on 16mm. The main event: the BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966) w/ Adam West. Tix @ grandillusioncinema.org/film/batman-...

Batman and Robin peer from behind crates on a shipping dock in the 1949 movie serial, BATMAN & ROBIN

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We’re showing some early Batman cartoons and a serial episode as part of this show! Plus there’ll be life size replicas of the freakin’ BATCOPTER and BATMOBILE, and Batman “himself” will be there! Holy nostalgic overload! To the Bat Poles — don’t miss it!

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If I ever direct a feature film, I will definitely wear a hat just like that at all times.

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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 03/08/2026

In memory of Josh Wakeland and for his birthday, we present 35mm double features of the first two live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies on both August 13 & 16 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. grandillusioncinema.org/film/teenage...

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Evidence of the Film (1913) offers a behind-the-scenes look at how movies were edited

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

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BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nice way to distract yourself this morning: the annual roundup of favorites from Il Cinema Ritrovato, chosen by 170 film writers, programmers and cinephiles. Always a good preview of what the rest of us will rediscover in the coming year. notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2026/07/ICR2...

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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2026: Favourites & Discoveries Poll

International poll on the best films shown at Il Cinema Ritrovato XL

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Artistry matters. (Ironically, it’s also good business.)

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Holy shit!! This is huge! We co-presented ultra rare 35mm screenings in 2015 at the Grand Illusion Cinema, and never thought this would happen. At the time, WB was still so uptight about THE DEVILS that they wouldn’t even allow BFI to release a blu-ray.

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

These FREE zoom presentations by SFFP are always fascinating and illuminating. This one promises to be especially so.

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My Best Girl (1927) was shot by Charles Rosher, Mary Pickford's favourite cinematographer, who later won an Oscar for his work on Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 08/03/2026

It should be your absolute goal to make sure any film/tv/arts/culture book you purchase from now on is directly from mzs.press, “the arts bookstore of the internet.” Matt is the best of the best, human & writing wise, and when he needs some help, we all gotta help! Plus: it’s a fantastic bookstore!!

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday

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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 29/11/2025

Thanks to @siffnews.bsky.social, @centralcinema.bsky.social, @nwfilmforum.bsky.social, Here-After, and Dirty Couch Brewing for hosting our popup screenings this year!

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A good piece about a great, thought provoking movie (suppressed in part by the FBI) that you must see. You must also militate for someone solid to release the new 4K restoration on blu. (The only DVD release was 26 years ago!)

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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 11/11/2025

We’re showing IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE for our 55th annual engagement, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24 at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social! Mark your calendar or buy tickets right now! grandillusioncinema.org/film/its-a-w...

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same. Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Tonight! Me and Seattle treasure Lori Goldston are doing a multi-projector + live cello improv film jam, as part of the 10th anniv celebration of @common-area.bsky.social at their “annex” space Common Objects (2601 1st Ave). Doors at 7pm. It’s free! RSVP now at www.tixtree.com/e/cam-10th-a...

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Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The Engauge Experimental Film Festival returns to Northwest Film Forum NEXT WEEK for its 8th year! The festival celebrates sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film, presenting six programs of shorts at NWFF’s cinema in Capitol Hill. All work featured in the festival originates on film stock.

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Our SECRET VAULT OF TORMENT show tomorrow 10/28 includes a secret feature that alarmed censors at the time. A sign with this “WARNING!” was displayed in some Canadian theaters. Ontario banned it outright b/c it was “Full of fiendish & diabolical doings.” Holland, too, b/c its “degrading effect.”

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Our all-16mm SECRET VAULT OF TORMENT is this Tues Oct 28 @ 7pm at NW Film Forum. We’re showing a bonkers secret mid-‘30s horror feature + a bunch of spooky shorts. Our feature’s an orig “SHOCK!” TV print. Here’s some pgs from the series’ 1958 pressbook. Tix & info: sprocketsociety.org/coming-soon/

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

One week from tonight! 10/28 at NW Film Forum, our all-16mm show SECRET VAULT OF TORMENT w/ a secret 1930s horror feature + spooky shorts, including the “complete” Frankenstein saga via Castle Films digests. Also a 3-D short & more! Info & tix via sprocketsociety.org/coming-soon/

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“Will the future ever appear? Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it…” - Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables”

Anti-monarchists man a barricade in a still from Raymond Bernard’s film, “Les Misérables” (1934)

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Speaking of authors at Pordenone, Richard Abel’s new book is available as a free PDF/EPUB download (or HB for purchase). “The Exhibitor as Producer: Stage Prologues in American Movie Theatres, 1917-1926” is heavily illustrated and short (179 pgs + cites & index). link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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The Exhibitor as Producer

This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The Pordenone silent film festival includes presentations with authors and scholars. These are freely available on the fest’s YouTube channel. Click the “Live” tab to find them. Also check out the shorter chats with program curators. See youtube.com/@giornatecin...

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto

Nate nel 1982 dalla collaborazione tra la Cineteca del Friuli di Gemona e Cinemazero di Pordenone, le Giornate del Cinema Muto si sono affermate come la principale manifestazione internazionale dedica...

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Our next show! Tues. October 28 — a secret 1930s horror feature, Castle Films digests of the “complete” Frankenstein saga, plus more. All on 16mm film! More info + tix via sprocketsociety.org/coming-soon/ Part of ALL MONSTERS ATTACK! from @grandillusioncinema.org

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

ICYMI the Pordenone silent film festival is underway, and folks like us who can’t teleport there can get in on their streaming edition. Films from day 2 are still online (for a bit), so if you carpe diem you’ll not have missed much. Recommended! www.mymovies.it/ondemand/gio...

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Le giornate del cinema muto 2025 - Enjoy the silence!

In streaming su MYmovies. Scegli il tuo accredito

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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 20/09/2025

RIP to local cinema legend Randy Finley. Before there was a Seven Gables theater chain in Seattle there was The Movie House at 1403 NE 50th St., also founded by Randy. He ran it until the late 70s when Paul Doyle took over and renamed it The Grand Illusion. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

For most Americans, the date 1913 means nothing. For Americans on the far right fringes, 1913 has long been a date of great significance. Here’s a piece from the antisemitic rag “American Mercury” in 1957, for example. One of their writers at the time was George Lincoln Rockwell.

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If Elon keeps heading the direction he is, then Twitter will just become a frictionless vector of evidence-free right wing propaganda like Gab or Truth Social...and the majority of people like me who have no interest in occupying a space like that will stop spending time here.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Groucho Marx and Marlene Dietrich on the Paramount lot, 1932

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Super excited to be part of this free outdoor show on Friday 8/22 in Bellingham! Melies, Keaton, Weber, Hazards of Helen, and Felix the Cat — all accompanied live by members of the Bellingham Symphony (incl. 2 new scores). More info at sprocketsociety.org/coming-soon/

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The Lubitsch Touch. …er, kinda literally.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 18,1951

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1 NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING DOWNTOWN
SLUGGO: NO MOVIES TONIGHT-I'VE
ONLY GOT THE PRICE OF ONE ADMISSION
P2-NANCY: I KNOW HOW WE BOTH CAN SEE A MOVIE WITH ONE ADMISSION
P3-SIGN: DRIVE-IN
THEATER
NANCY IS IN HER WAGON AND SLUGGO IS PULLING THE WAGON AS THE ENTER THE DRIVE-IN THEATER
NANCY AT THE TICKET BOOTH JUST SAYS: ONE
THE MAN IN THE TICKET BOOTH LOOKS BEWILDERED

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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Our most recent edition of ONLINE WITH SFFP is now available to view on our YouTube channel! On June 5, SFFP Board President Rob Byrne was joined by Ehsan Khoshbakht to discuss Lewis Milestone’s incredible body of work, including—of course—THE GARDEN OF EDEN, which SFFP restored! #FilmSky 1/2

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

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Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Join us on May 30th to celebrate our 30th anniversary at our 2025 gala! Turning 30 is major for people and organizations alike–an opportunity to celebrate our accomplishments and consider how we can continue to best serve our community. nwfilmforum.org/events/2025-...

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The Sprocket Society @sprocketsociety.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is utterly amazing, and if I could teleport (or, um, fly) to LA for this screening on Sunday I absolutely would. If you’re anywhere near there, you should go. youtu.be/Q3N6Z86NQJA

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Japanese Paper Films | Trailer

YouTube video by UCLA Film & Television Archive

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