Toronto Silent Film Festival
@tosilentfilm.bsky.social
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
Have at you! From your friendly local bat ladies
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have at you! From your friendly local bat ladies
In this crazy old world, get up to mischief
October 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
In this crazy old world, get up to mischief
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!
August 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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!
That will be quite the event. Bravo to everyone involved
“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...
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‘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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August 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
That will be quite the event. Bravo to everyone involved
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”You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.”
– Clarence Darrow
– Clarence Darrow
August 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
”You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.”
– Clarence Darrow
– Clarence Darrow
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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?
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.
If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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?
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.
August 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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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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July 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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
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
July 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
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.
www.kickstarter.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Last hours to pledge Little Mickey Grogan (1927) Restoration DVD/Blu-ray by Eric Grayson on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/162...
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
June 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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...
Feels like this today + the added humidity.
June 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Feels like this today + the added humidity.
I’m ready for summer.
June 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I’m ready for summer.
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
June 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
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@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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June 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
@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
Fun stuff indeed
So: uh, they uploaded a MOMA restoration of THE STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG to the Bundesarchiv, and it turns out it's a Czech-version-of-SUNRISE-level different cut than the Photoplay version. Different takes. Whole beats rearranged. Pacing changes. This is wild.
(Inset = Photoplay)
(Inset = Photoplay)
May 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Fun stuff indeed
We’ve just finished our screening “year” & already making plans for the next. Hmmm…what shall we do?
May 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
We’ve just finished our screening “year” & already making plans for the next. Hmmm…what shall we do?
Casanova swooning this Sat May 24th 2pm at the Paradise Theatre. It's Venetian Carnival time!
May 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Casanova swooning this Sat May 24th 2pm at the Paradise Theatre. It's Venetian Carnival time!
Because the fun never stops at TSFF. Our final screening of the season and closer for our series The Flesh &The Devil:exploring the notorious films of the 1920s. May 24 Paradise Theatre in Toronto.
April 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Because the fun never stops at TSFF. Our final screening of the season and closer for our series The Flesh &The Devil:exploring the notorious films of the 1920s. May 24 Paradise Theatre in Toronto.
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Today - Author Haley Mlotek selects THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and FIRST WIVES CLUB for the Divorced Women's Film Festival at Paradise, @tosilentfilm.bsky.social continues at Revue w/ Clara Bow in MANTRAP and Emil Jannings in THE LAST COMMAND, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep
Toronto On Screen for Sat Apr 12, 2025
A daily compendium of repertory, one-off and festival screenings happening in Toronto plus selected films in release at the city's independent cinemas. Click Read Notes for further details on each mov...
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April 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today - Author Haley Mlotek selects THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and FIRST WIVES CLUB for the Divorced Women's Film Festival at Paradise, @tosilentfilm.bsky.social continues at Revue w/ Clara Bow in MANTRAP and Emil Jannings in THE LAST COMMAND, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep
One week to TSFF2025. From classics to rarities, all with live accompaniment Revue Cinema Apr 11-13
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ALT: a black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a sign that says rd
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April 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
One week to TSFF2025. From classics to rarities, all with live accompaniment Revue Cinema Apr 11-13
It just feels like one of those days.
March 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It just feels like one of those days.
“I hate time change day” who’s with me?
March 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“I hate time change day” who’s with me?
Methinks a lovely picture of Clara Bow may do wonders to cheer us up.
March 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Methinks a lovely picture of Clara Bow may do wonders to cheer us up.