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Toronto Silent Film Festival

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We live in a world of silent film. Annual fest April 10/11/12 2026; Special screening series Jan-June 2026; Nov 21 Cine Concert. The “Festival Cat Assistants in Charge” keeping us motivated. https://linktr.ee/torontosilentfilm

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · 2d

In this crazy old world, get up to mischief

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Aug 25

The mystery deepens. First I receive a Secret Silent Santa copy of the April 1923 edition of Motion Picture in my mailbox. Now dvd copies of 2 fab films turns up in the same mailbox!

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ah, shucks

a cartoon of tom and jerry saying oh babez , got me all shy over here .

ALT: a cartoon of tom and jerry saying oh babez , got me all shy over here .

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Aug 13

It's a beautiful film

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Aug 11

That will be quite the event. Bravo to everyone involved

Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · Aug 11

“This new restoration, and its red-carpet premiere in Venice, may just be everything that Swanson dreamed of for her lovechild Queen Kelly.” — @pamhutch.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film fest...

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · Aug 10

”You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.”

– Clarence Darrow

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · Aug 5

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · Aug 5

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Aug 5

My newly arrived reading material all the way from across the pond. Been looking for it for yrs but it proved as elusive as the sanity in the film. Always a pleasure to add another David Robinson to the collection.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · Jul 20

My third silent Library of Congress National Film Registry nomination would be the first-ever for director Paul Leni, who left Germany for Hollywood only to die far too young at age 44. A magnificent Universal Super-Jewel with a Conrad Veidt performance that influenced the creators of DC’s The Joker

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a p...

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jul 19

I’m covering all the action from here (drinks included)

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jul 5

I might call my partner-in-crime that when he gets home just to see his reaction!

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jul 5

violets! That's a new to me heartthrob name!

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jul 1

Ned Sparks/Sam De Grasse

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jul 1

Director Del Lord, Academy Award winners Norma Shearer & Marie Dressler, Marie Prevost

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jul 1

Florence Lawrence/Fay Wray/Al Christie

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jul 1

It’s the annual #CanadaDay reminder of contributors to early Hollywood: famous, hidden or forgotten, their birth certificates verify them with maple in their blood:Pickford/Shipman/Sennett

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 30

Last hours to pledge Little Mickey Grogan (1927) Restoration DVD/Blu-ray by Eric Grayson on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/162...

Little Mickey Grogan (1927) Restoration DVD/Blu-ray

Restoration of 35mm film with Frankie Darro, Lassie Lou Ahern, and Jobyna Ralston.

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 26

Silent film folks! If you haven’t already, Check out Little Mickey Grogan (1927) Restoration DVD/Blu-ray by Eric Grayson on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/162...

Little Mickey Grogan (1927) Restoration DVD/Blu-ray

Restoration of 35mm film with Frankie Darro, Lassie Lou Ahern, and Jobyna Ralston.

www.kickstarter.com

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 23

That’s mighty warm. Stay cool. We’re getting the same today (about 38C).

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 22

Feels like this today + the added humidity.

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 20

Can't really think of anything pithy so I'll ask : do you have a favourite font(s)?

Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 20

I’m ready for summer.

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 13

I love these projects-not only is this the type of rarity close to my silent film geeky heart, but it's being done by a really swell person who absolutely know his stuff. Please back Little Mickey Grogan (1927) Restoration DVD/Blu-ray on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/162...

Little Mickey Grogan (1927) Restoration DVD/Blu-ray

Restoration of 35mm film with Frankie Darro, Lassie Lou Ahern, and Jobyna Ralston.

www.kickstarter.com

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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Jun 11

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Hi Matt. We just published our discussion of Riefenstahl. You and/or your followers might be interested in it. No expectation, but if you listen to or share it, please enjoy! If that's the right word. pod.fo/e/2e3525

Eavesdropping at the Movies: 445 - Riefenstahl

In the 1930s, Leni Riefenstahl infamously directed two propaganda films, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, for the Nazi Party. For the rest of her life, which ended in 2003, she denied knowledge of ...

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · Jun 10

Jeez. What do we have to do to keep getting our fix? I can't live without Noir Alley

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