I have spent a lot of words on Le Giornate del Cinema Muto so maybe I need some new ones. Conveniently enough, day six of the festival proved a fruitful day for neologisms – right from the start.

Podcast Episode · Writers on Film · 6 October · 35min

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…

ALT: Jack And The Beanstalk Edwin S Porter

A mythical slapstick silent comedy that’s been missing for more than a century “miraculously” turned up inside a dusty antique shop in Japan.

ALT: Ringo Starr of The Beatles Dancing

This newsletter provides details of new events and further research on John Boorman and Bristol in the 1960s.

Stories and talking points from our South Asian communities across the west of England.

Before he went on to Hollywood fame, film director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur, Point Blank) worked at BBC Bristol where he made many films about the city. Last year South West Silents show...

ALT: Nosferatu Reacts to Daylight

Ahead of the solar eclipse on 12 August, we shed some light on a pioneering film from 1900 which is believed to be the earliest surviving astronomical film. In this piece from our August 2019 issue, B...

Before he went on to Hollywood fame, film director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur, Point Blank) worked at BBC Bristol where he made many films about the city. Last year South West Silents show...

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Bonn | Queen Kelly | Rudolph Valentino | Metropolis | Pordenone | Faust | & more… It’s a long hot summer of silent cinema, my friends. The temperatures are stuck in the roaring twenties a…

Planning approval brings to an end years of campaigning to restore the 114-year-old building.

ALT: Buster Keaton's Car Disaster

Before he went on to Hollywood fame, film director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur, Point Blank) worked at BBC Bristol where he made many films about the city. Last year South West Silents show...

South West Silents presents a special double including Some People (1962), A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Buster Keaton short Cops (1922). Plus a chance a chance to purchase the new BFI Classics book A...

What is Il Cinema Ritrovato? A few years back at a Bologna dinner, an important person with far more right to speak on these matters than I have, announced that for them, Il Cinéma Ritrovato was no…