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Cinema's First Nasty Women
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Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/ https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
Visited my book at the performing arts library at the New York Public Library 😍
Silent Movie Day is coming up on Tuesday, September 29th. Here are some picks for some silent films you can watch to celebrate! Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/5-movies-t...
Queer experience runs through Re:Vision: Mohamed Camara’s DAKAN, opening night’s MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE with Deanie Ip’s fierce Wong Ying, the long-unavailable short NANCY, HENRI AND ELIZABETH, and Maude George’s devious Madame Bauer in THE GARDEN OF EDEN. filmpreserve.org/revision/#program
"Looking at the canon of German films from the silent era, there is not much to laugh about." Or is there?! ⁉️ .... www.weimarcinema.org/essay/stiasn...
A Case for Canonization: Rediscovering Ellen Richter's Comedy Moral (1928) · WeimarCinema.org
Looking at the canon of German films from the silent era, there is not much to laugh about. Apart from a few early films by Ernst Lubitsch, it contains…
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Shout-out to @kinolorber.com and Nasty Women in this fab interview with Portland-based composer Mark Orton! 🎞🎶📀 www.orartswatch.org/sonic-silent...
‘Sonic Silents’: Composer Mark Orton masterminds a four-day spree of silent film treats with brand-new scores • Oregon ArtsWatch
The inaugural festival runs September 17-20 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland.
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A look at the films directed by women that are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/directed-b...
The deadline for the WFHI Student Project Award is fast approaching on September 15! For more information, please visit the WFHI website: www.wfhi.org/student-proj...
Twin Cities audiences love their horror movies, so we're inviting an especially demonic presence into the @trylon.org this October... DRACULA IN INSTANBUL New 4K restoration! Thursday, October 22 🇹🇷🎞🧛♂️🦇⚰️😱 🎟 www.trylon.org/film/dracula...
Dracula in Istanbul
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August was largely filled with disappointing rom-coms, one middling biopic, and one stand-out piece of American indie filmmaking, but I had a very enriching month at Locarno and watching films via the Internationale Stummfilmtage Bonn online. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/summer-fil...
Watch our before/after restoration clip from Sumitra Peries’s GEHENU LAMAI [The Girls], the first feature directed by a woman in Sri Lanka. Screens with Satyajit Ray’s TWO at Re:Vision, Sat. Sept. 26 at the Roxie. 👉 roxie.com/film/revision-gehenu-lamai-the-girls/ #FilmSky #FilmFest
This is a good gospel.
Cinema's First Nasty Women@nastysilents.bsky.social · last mo.Fantastic review of Karen Pearlman's film BREAKING PLATES, which headlines our curated program BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY!! Thanks Simon Foster for helping spread the gospel of Léontine, Laura Bayley, Texas Guinan, and our nasty women! 🎞⁉🎶 screenspace.substack.com/p/silent-fil...
Fantastic review of Karen Pearlman's film BREAKING PLATES, which headlines our curated program BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY!! Thanks Simon Foster for helping spread the gospel of Léontine, Laura Bayley, Texas Guinan, and our nasty women! 🎞⁉🎶 screenspace.substack.com/p/silent-fil...
SILENT FILM FEMINISM: Cinema’s First Nasty Women Come to Sydney.
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.
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You can't spell "cinephilia" without masked, satanic, wrestler panther women!!!! Coming up this weekend at the @trylon.org, co-presented by your friends at @archivesonscreen.org! 🎞️📽️ www.trylon.org/film-series/...
Grab a hat and head to the Heights Theater this Wednesday for the new 4K restoration of BITTER RICE! Introduced by Tommaso Cammarano of the Italian Cultural Center and Italian Film Festival and Maggie Hennefeld of Archives on Screen.
'Have fun; be bold; find joy' (Deborah Jones) Australian Premiere of BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY in the gorgeous Art Gallery of NSW Sydney Cinémathèque, Sun August 30, 3pm. Entry FREE, but book: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/eve... 🙏 nastysilents.bsky.social @kinolorber.com
The Golden Silent Films Podcast is back with THREE guests to dive into the history of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival and what attendees can look forward to this year! It’s Europe’s best silent film festival for a reason! @silentfilmbonn.bsky.social #silentfilm youtu.be/1J8eosaTWBw?...
The Bonn International Silent Film Festival - Germany's Silent Movie Destination
YouTube video by The Golden Silent Films Podcast
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🎬 Die Internationalen Stummfilmtage – 42. Bonner Sommerkino kommen in Riesenschritten näher: Das traditionsreiche Filmfestival findet vom 13. bis 22. August 2026 wie gehabt im Arkadenhof der Universität Bonn statt: www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuelles/ar...
Programmausblick auf die Internationalen Stummfilmtage 2026 in Bonn
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*Many thanks* to @fuscowrites.bsky.social for this extremely generous and gorgeously written review of DEATH BY LAUGHTER!! Hot off the press in the new issue of American Literary History. ‼️📚🤣 @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Maggie Hennefeld, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema
Katherine Fusco; Maggie Hennefeld, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema, American Literary History, Volume 38, Issue 3, 1 July 2026, Pages 1
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Don't forget, the deadline is TOMORROW!!!!
Cinema's First Nasty Women@nastysilents.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe've been nominating LAUGHING GAS (1907) -- the joyfully anarchic, anti-racist silent film comedy starring Bertha Regustus -- every year! Please cast your vote for LAUGHING GAS! It's included in Cinema's First Nasty Women! 📀 More info below....
Australian Premiere of BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY at Sydney Cinémathèque, Art Gallery of NSW, Sun Aug 30, 3pm. A celebration of creative mayhem, feminist protest, slapstick rebellion and suggestive gender play with @nastysilents.bsky.social: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
RE:VISION TICKETS ARE ON SALE! The full schedule is live: 14 screenings, 4 days, 18 countries, 11 decades of cinema, from Irish fantasy to Mexican midnight movies to American experimental film. SFFP Members save 20% on tickets, $50 on passes. https://filmpreserve.org/revision/
Another silent favorite of mine!
Cinema's First Nasty Women@nastysilents.bsky.social · 2mo agoand LAUGHING GAS!!!!!
For this week’s Silent Sundays, I wrote about five silent films directed by women that I think should be added to the National Film Registry — an how you can nominate them before this year’s deadline, which is coming up soon!
Five Silent Films Directed By Women That Should Be Added To The National Film Registry
Silent Sundays: Silent Film Streaming Picks
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