Keaton klaxon! 📢 🎞️ 🍿 @peni-film-fest.bsky.social are screening Buster’s fabulous boxing romcom BATTLING BUTLER this Sat 17 Oct 7pm with music from Andy Quin 🎹🎶 and pre-recorded intro from yours truly - details & tickets here: www.penistonefilmfestival.com 🎟️📽️🍿🤣🥊

WIP Wednesday - Promotional photos for Buster Keaton's "The Navigator," 1924. #oldhollywood #silentfilm

Ship's Reporter Interview: Buster Keaton (September 20, 1952) Filmed aboard the S.S. United States on Keaton's departure for Europe. Buster talks about how he got into films with Roscoe Arbuckle. You can watch the full interview here: buff.ly/UZMOP0e #oldhollywood

Vintage 1924 Buster Keaton “The Navigator” Silent Film Thematic Music Cue Sheet #ad

Vintage 1924 Buster Keaton “The Navigator” Silent Film Thematic Music Cue Sheet

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For Heritage Open Days 2026, join us at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum for the launch of our brand-new guide on the Bloomberg Connects app 🤳 Try out the guide & enjoy refreshments, giveaways & special displays. Book your free place via Eventbrite here: tinyurl.com/bdhtph2f #bloombergconnects

Wondering what to watch this weekend? 🎬 May we suggest a little oil, chaos, and silent-era spectacle — FREE of charge? FLOWING GOLD (1924): a homesteading family strikes it rich in the North Texas oil boom. Thunderstorms. Rivalries. A fire sequence tinted blazing red. 1/3

People of Bristol - Neil is in town tonight with Laurel and Hardy! 🎹🎞️🤣 Give yourself a treat - tickets here 🎟️🎟️ redgravetheatre.com/event/2026/0...

Neil Brand@neilkbrand.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Bristol, Taunton, Swansea chums! Coming your way over the next three days! See you there! www.laurelandhardypresentedbyneilbrand.co.uk/tour-dates/

“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.” My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less. stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

A masterpiece back on the big screen, a cat picture, and some book news! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/05/b...

Book news: The Curse of Queen Kelly

People, I have been busy. Book news, and a cat picture, below… But first… has anyone here seen Queen Kelly? This is the legendary collaboration between Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson and Joseph…

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Excellent news from @silentlondon.bsky.social in ref to a new book and #SilentFilm Queen Kelly (1929) silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/05/b...

Book news: The Curse of Queen Kelly

People, I have been busy. Book news, and a cat picture, below… But first… has anyone here seen Queen Kelly? This is the legendary collaboration between Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson and Joseph…

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Slapstick Festival is proud to announce that the 2026 Legacy Medal has been awarded to physical comedian and filmmaker Mulindua Freddie, a passionate contemporary champion of silent screen comedy working in Uganda.

Editing by eye in THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSELPROM

Very excited to say that we will be joined by Sir Christopher Frayling plus two special recorded intros by film director Alex Cox during our Sergio Leone Weekend in April in #Bristol. Limited passes still available here: hdfst.uk/e145608

You can now stream MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA on the Eye Player, with a score by Leo Geyer and Richard Bossons derived from the original music for the film organised by Vertov. player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/man...

My release of the 1917 adaptation of KIDNAPPED will be screened at Hippfest on March 19, its first big screen showing in over a century with music by the wonderful @silentsweeney.bsky.social See New Jersey double for Scotland in Scotland www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/

HippFest

HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s first and oldest cinema; featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, ...

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Thanks @popcornchat.bsky.social & @slapstickfest.bsky.social! This screening of Keaton's lesser-known French sound film LE ROI DES CHAMPS ELYSÉES was a delight, many laughs from a packed cinema at @wshed.bsky.social. Such a pleasure to share it 🤣🍿❤️

Slapstick Festival@slapstickfest.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Another Buster Keaton feature ticked off Sarah aka PopcornChat’s watchlist 🍿 With thanks to Keaton expert Polly Rose for sharing their knowledge whilst introducing at Slapstick Festival; we can't wait to have them both back next year. #keaton #buster #silentfilm #slapstickcomedy #slapstickfestival

Buster Keaton & Sybil Seely #oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm

If you can't be in HippFest this March, HippFest will come to your home! Highly recommend this digital pass for a taste of Britain's best silent film festival online. www.falkirkleisureandculture.org/memberships/

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ALT: a black and white photo of a woman standing in a bedroom next to a bed .

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More wonderful Bristolian indie documentary cinema... THE BIG PICTURE (2025) is now streaming online - a cinematic love letter to the film community that revived the Bristol Megascreen, including @20thcflicks.bsky.social @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social and many more 💌📽️🎞️ kinema.com/films/the-bi...

The Big Picture

Host a screening of The Big Picture

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I'm excited to watch RAVE ON FOR THE AVON (2024) when it screens online this Thursday (for one day only!) - been waiting for a while to see this acclaimed Bristolian indie documentary on the community campaign for a clean river ❤️ www.eightysita.com/event-detail...

Online Premiere Screening & Live Director Q&A | EightySita

Join our one-time online screening of Rave On For The Avon, 86mins, followed immediately by a live Director Q&A hosted by Finisterre and Surfers Against Sewage

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Lovely piece on the life and work of much-missed silent film historian John Bengtson (via @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social). www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

John Bengtson, Bay Area silent-movie expert and ‘Sherlock Holmes of film locations,’ dies

A Bay Area attorney who researched silent films as a hobby, John Bengtson spent decades tracking down the exact streets where Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin filmed.

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Very pleased to be doing this upcoming online research seminar for University of Reading's Film, Theatre & TV department: Wednesday 25 February, 14.00 - 15.30, "Muriel Box, 'The Truth About Women', and the truth about women directors" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muriel-box...

Muriel Box and the Truth About Women Directors

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

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Real Cinema History: closeups were for cats

Thank you @slapstickfest.bsky.social and @robinince.bsky.social for a fantastic evening + screening of One Cut of the Dead 🧟 The Boomsatsuma student films really made the evening special. All the submissions were excellent 📽️ An honour and a pleasure to be involved 💜

Slapstick Festival@slapstickfest.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We loved partnering with Bristol Film School boomSatsuma to showcase three one-minute, one take horrors at our One Cut of the Dead screening! Thank you to @robinince.bsky.social and @admagnetic77.bsky.social for introducing them, and everyone who participated. See below the films and artists 👇

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Review: Slapstick Silent Comedy Gala 2026, Bristol Beacon

A full house gathers to laugh at comedies made more than a century ago

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A big thank you to the @slapstickfest.bsky.social team for a great festival. It was a delight to be part of it and to present two Keaton films - many thanks to musicians John Sweeney 🎹 & Frank Bockius 🥁, BSL Paul Mancini 🧏🏻 and to Buster's granddaughter Melissa Talmadge Cox for joining us!

This was such a fun screening, with a great audience and a lot of laughs. Thanks @davidthlewis.bsky.social 😊

David T H Lewis@davidthlewis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Early highlight from @slapstickfest.bsky.social is Buster Keaton en francais in The King of the Champs-Élysées. My first sound Keaton and probably the best. The intro by Polly Rose was also delightful. boxd.it/cZcFOF

Thanks for coming along @zipnolan.bsky.social! So glad you enjoyed the screening

Peter Clinch@zipnolan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My favourite first watch at last week's Slapstick festival was this gem. Buster Keaton with sound, in French, but with comic inventiveness and timing as sharp as his silent heyday. Thank you for treating us with it @slapstickfest.bsky.social @theflyingeditor.bsky.social

Hey #Bristol film fans! Keep an eye out for our Sergio Leone Weekend poster around town. #SergioLeone #Western #spaghetti The poster includes more info about the weekend including which #SilentFilm we’re screening… passes available here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/meg...

We miss you, John.

Slapstick Festival@slapstickfest.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ahead of the Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality screening, @theflyingeditor.bsky.social pays tribute to Silent Film locations expert John Bengston with a high sign in his honour - Damfino! #BusterKeaton #silentcomedy #silentfilm #pollyrose #johnbengston