Pordenone Silent Film Festival | 3>10 ottobre 2026

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.

“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 …

Archival Spaces 403: Weimar Germany’s Most Popular Unknown Film Star Uploaded 10 July 2026 Ellen Richter in Moral (1928, Willi Wolff) Despite having starred in ca. 70 films, despite having been one…

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Royals like to take international tours, don’t they? Now Queen Kelly has played Venice, Lyon, Sao Paulo and many, many cities in the US, the royal entourage is finally en route to the UK. Whe…

The data visualization was created by the BMFTR research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIF) in collaboration with data visualization designer Chri...

ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands next to a woman in a black dress who says i 'm a star

In Eric von Stroheim’s lost silent masterpiece, Gloria Swanson stars as an innocent but flirtatious convent girl from the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau who catches the eye of the ...

Name: Queen Kelly Age: Somewhere from 92 to 96 years old. Or brand new, maybe? Appearance: Decadent visions of dissipated European royalty in palatial grandeur, and seedy expat iniquity in East Afr…

Professor Melanie Williams presents her current research on the work of film director Muriel Box and her 1957 film The Truth About Women

This is a list of the films at our Rejoice Resist: BIPOC Films Program, March 12 & 13, and at Cinema Village from March 14-16. They are the documentaries, the narrative features, and one block of shor...

Elinor Glyn, June Mathis, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber: The many women who achieved dazzling success in the first years of Hollywood.

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Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall? For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, cl…

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Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.