The San Francisco Silent Film Festival returns to the @castrotheatre.bsky.social May 6-10. We're pleased to be supporting screenings of QUEEN KELLY & BOOKKEEPER KREMEKE.
Schedule and tix: silentfilm.org Use promo code NOIRSF at checkout for a $2 discount.
#SFSFF2026 @eddiemuller.bsky.social
#filmsky #moviesky #silents
One year+ ago, I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s
THE MANXMAN (1929) at San Francisco’s bastion of social justice, Grace Cathedral.
Such an intense, and moving film.
(Plays on Tubi/Plex,…)
👏🏼 Thanks to SF Silent Film Festival
The 2026 schedule, starts May 6 silentfilm.org/festival
I spend considerable time looking up words in UK and Irish shows, like craic, gaff, and Maltesers from one episode of Bad Sisters. I always watch those with the captions on.
I was lucky to have him as a thesis advisor in the 1980s during the writing of The Genius of the System. Very eager to read this!
THE PATSY is Marion’s best (indeed, a top tier silent comedy in general) and @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social will sparkle. Don’t miss!
I loved talking about the IRENE at the Library's Packard Campus in Culpeper, VA -- this one is in DC -- even if the tech seemed like science fiction (preserve a disc broken into pieces? no problem). This is a nice explainer of its wonders and it's interesting to see it being used on a Dictabelt.
Breakfast TV yesterday morning. Stan, Ollie and piano accompanist...
youtu.be/fzVkMdGyHYs?...
Mike with the 2026 NCAA basketball championship trophy at the LBJ Library
all right Michigan, I guess you earned it
Join me at the Denver Silent Film Festival next week!! 🎞️
Thanks! I didn't want to make too big a deal about it on the blog, but Al Dettlaff (RIP) was so obsessively protective of the print that I vowed as soon as it hit the Library's doors, we'd preserve it, scan it, score it, and make it freely downloadable online as quickly as possible.
Grateful for this post because I've never seen the film this way. Persuasively contradicts my flippant remarks about it in a 2018 blog post about its preservation!
todays must-read!!!
Happy birthday to Gloria Swanson and happy publication day to my new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY, available from @stickingplacebk.bsky.social here stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...
I was in Phoenix Wednesday but for only a day. Wish I could have made it to the Museum but loved the Desert Botanical Garden at night. Need a return visit!
All of Marya's interviews are insightful, and this one with @pamhutch.bsky.social is a special delight.
Larry was so helpful (and good natured about his name!) As your article so eloquently argues, the deliberate destruction of the CBS papers was tragic. I kept hoping they'd turn up after I became the Library's Moving Image Curator in 1998 because we definitely would have taken them.
Back in the 90s I interviewed a CBS VP when researching my dissertation and it was his understanding that indeed, the corporate archive was pulped in the 80s during the Laurence Tisch regime. I immediately pivoted to focusing on NBC since its records are at Wisconsin and the Library of Congress.
Spectacular overview by @hennefem.bsky.social.
every so often I like to look at my notes from when we discovered the uncensored BABY FACE in the @librarycongress.bsky.social collections
What Guy said!
My rent in ATX has dropped the last two years without me asking for it. I live in a very housing dense neighborhood and am grateful for that.
Peter Lev's "Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959" (2003) -- part of that multivolume University of California Press History of American Cinema series -- is a solid overview.
"Stan" is an exceptionally moving and affectionate play by the multi-talented Neil Brand, someone who's very much attuned to the personal relationship between Laurel and Hardy. Looking forward to hearing it again!
If you don’t know much about QUEEN KELLY, let me put it this way: the backstory to SUNSET BOULEVARD was even more shocking than you imagined…
I was honored to blurb Pamela's brilliant new history of Queen Kelly, whose chaotic implosion has long begged for a treatment like this. It's a great read!
I second that emotion! This video gives me all the feels. I miss my brilliant colleagues and especially those exciting times when one of them would turn up something completely unexpected.
What a find! The LOC keeps turning up treasures.
Same! I can play it with "incorrect" finger placement, but it's a bear.
