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The Silent London Poll of 2023: And the winners are …

I may be a humble blogger typing at my desk, but just imagine I am a glamorous celebrity cracking first-rate jokes while wearing a designer ballgown. I have counted the votes, and I am ready to announce the winners of the Silent London Poll of 2023! Congratulations to all the people mentioned below – as ever, these categories were bursting with great nominations. Thank you for all your votes,…

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Thinking Aloud About Film: Hippodrome Silent Film Festival 2023 Bo'Ness

Intrepid investigative journalist Richard Layne returns to the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival to report on the films and the glamour of Silent Cinema in Bo’Ness, a model of what place and event can do together: a site of scholarship, restoration, fandom and even the commission of aspects of production, bringing together a cultural intersection of the local and the international. An unmissable…

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Thing Aloud About Film with Pamela Hutchinson on Hippfest

Thing Aloud About Film with Pamela Hutchinson on Hippfest

photo credit: hippfest.co.uk Hippfest is how fans and admirers endearingly refer to the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival that takes place annually at Scotland’s oldest cinema – The Hippodrome, built in 1912, in Bo’ness. Under Alison Strauss’ guidance, the festival has become a force internationally, bringing to the UK newly discovered or newly restored silent classics, and presented in a varied…

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The Silent London Poll of 2021: And the winners are …

The Silent London Poll of 2021: And the winners are …

It may already feel like a long time ago, but 2021 was one heck of a year. We were online, we were in-venue, sometimes we were both. But we were all grateful for the films, and the music. Below, it gives me great pleasure to reveal your chosen favourites, and a selection of your insightful and amusing comments too. Thank you for your votes. Here are your winners! Best real-world silent film…

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Hippodrome SIlent Film Fest opens with Rob Roy (1922)

FILM REVIEW: Hippodrome SIlent Film Fest opens with Rob Roy (1922) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @HippFestScot @DavidAllison_ @sausagestrauss @FCTrust @laughandaguise

With a red, white and blue “God Save The King” banner suspended from the balcony, you would be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled upon an Orange Lodge meeting. But no, this is the Bo’ness Hippodrome on the opening night of HippFest, Scotland’s first and only silent film festival which has defied the odds for nine years and runs until 24 March, with the royal bunting in honour of George V who…

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