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Silent summer: some dates for your diary

Silent summer: some dates for your diary

Please excuse typos in this blogpost. I am writing this in a mixture of mental fog and nervous excitement. Yesterday I had my second dose of my Covid-19 vaccination, and the ‘Moderna flu’ is real but suddenly the future seems a little bit brighter. So I thought I would pop on here to remind you of some upcoming silent-film-related events that you can attend in person or online, making your summer…

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Cinema Rediscovered 2026 Wrap-Up. As ever Richard and I loved attending this year’s edition of Cinema Rediscovered at the Watershed in Bristol.... https://notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/31/cinema-rediscovered-2026-wrap-up/

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Pamela Hutchinson on THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY (New York, Sticking Place Books, 2025) When I read THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY, I wrote to Pam Hutchinson, its author: 'I found it it so much fun to read -- a rarity!... https://notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/16/pamela-hutchinson-on-the-curse-of-queen-kelly-new-york-sticking-place-books-2025/

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Cinema Rediscovered: Queen Kelly in Bristol this July

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. Where better for the British premiere of Milestone’s stunning new restoration of Erich von Stroheim famously unfinished, notoriously excessive, beautiful and sleazy melodrama to play than the UK’s best archive…

Cinema Rediscovered: Queen Kelly in Bristol this July

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Thinking Aloud About Cinema: Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986)

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José Arroyo in Conversation with Daniel Bird on Sergei Parajanov

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Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken

Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken

It has been said by many a wise soul that every Hollywood silent is essentially Pre-code. That sentence itself is my entire justification for sharing this with you. The fabulous Christina Newland and I have collaborated on a Pre-code Hollywood project to make this hot summer sizzle with a little more steam. But yes, it’s all talkies. We have curated five films from Park Circus and Warner Bros’s…

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Young cinema

This week, I had the honour of delivering the Philip French Memorial Lecture at the Cinema Rediscovered festival in Bristol. Due to the strange times that we are living in, the lecture was livestreamed as well as being held in person at the Watershed Cinema. My task for the lecture was to talk about the role of critics in reframing film heritage. I spoke a little about Silent London, and also…

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