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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

He’s walking twice as far what with the four legs and continually checking potentially interesting smells!

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 13h

Grazie mille SL!! A good time was had by all! And, I’ve just done another 3 miles with the hound!

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 15h

Last report from the last day of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto - Charlie, Buster, Natalie, Jackie Gleeson and Italia Almirante Manzini!!

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Train keeps a runnin’… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto #44 Day Eight

That was the week that was… and it was a Festival of many parts as director Jay Weissberg noted as he introduced the final night’s gala ...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 23h

Emphatically this!!! #ThinkIndie

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 1d

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester celebrate their new American citizenship, 1950

Laughton and Lanchester hold up papers, smiling, arms around each other, American flag on wall behind them.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

A large crowd of kids gathered outside a theater showing THE AIR MAIL (1925) plus an Our Gang short

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this is nice - name-checked by Criterion for my coverage of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto along with @silentlondon.bsky.social , both of us writing daily on the films! 😎

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Parallax Views

This week: Essays on Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophie Fillières, and Miguel Gomes, a talk with Wes Anderson, and an AI experiment.

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

Day Seven at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto comes with an adult content warning.

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The fault in our Tsar… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Seven

If Hammer made Soviet historical dramas with a propagandist edge in the silent era it would probably be exactly like The Wings of a Serf ...

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

Me too!! Ivan the really psychotic!!

Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 2d

Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 7

I have been a little slow to start up some mornings. But one thing you can guarantee that I will get out of bed for is Victor Sjöström. Victor Sjöström’s 1912 debut film no less, banned outright in…

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Wigan pit brow lasses, or coal mine surface workers, 19th century (WiganWorld).

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 2d

You too John and thanks for reading! YNWA!!

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 3d

"This was an excellent lecture by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı aka The Nasty Women Collective which highlighted the tremendous importance of costume in the act of creating the chaos of comedy...I hadn’t expected to be so fascinated in the subject but that’s education for you."

PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 3d

From Pompei to the sea bed via confused parents and others in denial. And, blessed are the costume designers with their help we can smash the patriarchy! Day Six at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.

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Epic Thursday… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Six

White Heather (1919) Are Parents People? (1925) with Neil Brand Not a lot of people know this but, when this film was screened at the K...

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 3d

From Pompei to the sea bed via confused parents and others in denial. And, blessed are the costume designers with their help we can smash the patriarchy! Day Six at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.

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Epic Thursday… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Six

White Heather (1919) Are Parents People? (1925) with Neil Brand Not a lot of people know this but, when this film was screened at the K...

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 3d

A poignant day in Pordenone at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto - dominated by the Great War and all points afterwards. But we also saw Musidora, Betty Balfour and Leontine!!

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Futility… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Five

In the rush to fall over each other’s opinions we forget that there can be no winners in a war of words or of bombs. In the battle to pe...

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 3d

A poignant day in Pordenone at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto - dominated by the Great War and all points afterwards. But we also saw Musidora, Betty Balfour and Leontine!!

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Futility… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Five

In the rush to fall over each other’s opinions we forget that there can be no winners in a war of words or of bombs. In the battle to pe...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 4d

A night in Le Giornate del Cinema Muto that I won't forget silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5

It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 4d

"There was more mischief to be had in the afternoon w/a triple-bill devoted to Louis Feuillade’s collaborations w/the elusive Léontine.." ⁉️🎞️🎈 Big day for Léontine! Powerful & dazzling line-up of screenings at #GCM44, chronicled brilliantly by @pamhutch.bsky.social

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5

It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi is genuinely a fool.

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 4d

Just catching up on the Balfour Declaration prior to tonight’s “Palestine - A Revised Narration” at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. “Revised” versus historical consensus of political view points? This is an historical challenge.

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40. Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 4d

*AN*!!!! FFS…

PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 5d

And emotional day four at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto! #SilentFilm

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Tears are not enough… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Four

Ruan Lingyu abides... OK, new rules, we’re halfway through and it’s time to make this blog snappier. Today: · Cried – twice · ...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 5d

Day four of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto brought a return to East Lynne and a visit to the women of Chaplinland. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 4

Last night I dreamt I went to East Lynne again… Ellen Wood is directing my subconscious now. I love this mini melodrama strand and I really enjoyed today’s instalment, which was the lavish 1925 Fox…

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 5d

And emotional day four at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto! #SilentFilm

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Tears are not enough… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Four

Ruan Lingyu abides... OK, new rules, we’re halfway through and it’s time to make this blog snappier. Today: · Cried – twice · ...

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 5d

Day three at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and it was full-on with "Pink Tea Talking" and "little mites of wonderment"...

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Electric Gypsy… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day 3

Let’s start at the big finish shall we, let’s begin with the pure diva pomp and circumstance of Italia Almirante Manzini playing the Queen...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 6d

Day three of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto was packed with Drama with a capital D. For Diva. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 3

Monday finished with a zinger. I mean a Zingari. Italia Almirante Manzini wowed the Verdi as Wilejka, a heavy-lidded beauty with great hair, but in this case as a heavy-lidded beautiful Gypsy sheph…

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