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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 3d

I loved it! I cheered at Blue Washington! I swooned at Jacqueline Logan! And how on earth did Richard Arlen manage to look like a teddy boy in the mid-1920s?? In fact, the hairstyles of that crew seemed to span the whole second half of the 20th century...

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to the #Pordenone Silent Film Festival's 2025 online output, last night I was able to see what @moviessilently.bsky.social was raving about in her review of The Blood Ship. It's marvellous! And a great 1st opportunity for many silent film fans as I think the 2024 Bluray is Region A only.

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Jul 6

This week's review covers THE BLOOD SHIP (1927), a nasty nautical revenge picture starring the king of the genre, Hobart Bosworth.

The film put Columbia on the map as a studio and it was a big hit but reviewers warned that it was simply too gruesome for women.

moviessilently.com/2025/07/06/t...

The Blood Ship (1927) A Silent Film Review

This film was labeled “too gruesome for real enjoyment” by one reviewer when it was released. Not for ladies. Just too much. Sounds great! It’s a bloody Hobart Bosworth ship melodrama with death an…

moviessilently.com

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 7d

I second this! @dirtyfeed.org is a fantastic read/resource for UK comedy especially.

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 8d

Nevermind, I just got in. 🥳

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 8d

Hmm... I bought my online pass 2 weeks ago, but I can't seem to find my way in to see the first films, even though I'm logged in on that page. I'll wait until tomorrow in case it's a blip, before I start getting worried. 😬

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 9d

I can't wait! Although every year I manage to get myself lost on that website. 🤪 Hopefully I'll know where I am once the first film is available... 🎞 🩶

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 23d

This is why I am so fussy about silent film restorations, computer colorization and AI.

It took us DECADES to degunk CALIGARI because some mid-century fool changed the aspect ratio.

You never know what is going to survive.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 23d

A fool on a horse smoking a pipe, one of many performers in the procession of Joanna of Castile's entry into Brussels, 1496.

Wait... a pipe?
In 1496?
Yes sometimes real history is also fake.
An 17th century doodler added the pipe.

I'm still angry.

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 26d

It was also the first time I had seen Mary Astor in a silent film that wasn't a period drama. I can't stop thinking about how ridiculously young and beautiful she is.

Mary Astor with short wavy hair, frowning slightly and playing a nurse.

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · 26d

Oh, Doctor! (1925) has given me my new favourite intertitle. (The context being a very cute scene between Reg Denny and Mary Astor) #100yearoldfilms #silentfilm

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 27

The DCA is putting on so many silent film screenings this year and I LOVE IT. 😍 Keep it up @dcadundee.bsky.social ! #silentfilm #dundee

Dundee Contemporary Arts @dcadundee.bsky.social · Aug 27

We're thrilled to share that Dundead will be taking 1925's The Phantom of the Opera on tour.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this early horror masterpiece, we've commissioned a brand-new live score by acclaimed Scottish musicians Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman.

tinyurl.com/2dzywh4b

Dundead presents The Phantom of the Opera with new live score by Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman. On tour around Scotland October - November 2025

With image of The Phantom in red

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sometimes you just feel like watching films from 1925 about rats. #100yearoldfilms #silentfilm

Letterboxd diary entries for today: The Rat (1925); Alice Rattled by Rats (1925)

Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 14

BBC Four tonight! 🚨

Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thanks to @xanderl.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention. Joan Crawford narrates a special 1969 programme on Greta Garbo, on BBC Four on 14 August (following a screening of GRAND HOTEL) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC One - Garbo, by Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford narrates a film that looks at Greta Garbo's art and life through her movies.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is an important read, #silentfilm fans! 🩶

Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Aug 11

Long live Queen Kelly!!! 🎞️👑 Kicking off my (19th consecutive 23rd) bday on a high note with @pamhutch.bsky.social's brilliant piece on @milestonefilms.bsky.social's new restoration of QUEEN KELLY (1929), which will have its big premiere in Venice next month!!! 🎊🤩

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...

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 10

Nice thread on The Beloved Rogue (1927), which I am surprised isn't better known given that it has John Barrymore AND Conrad Veidt both being ridiculous together. Also, how I long for a European blu-ray release...

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Aug 10

Lobby cards for THE BELOVED ROGUE. I enjoy the way dramatic movie scenes of torture are framed in a border with 80s sugary cereal vibes.

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 2

Also FFS, "consolidation"??... sorry (I think your audience member drinks wine)

Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 2

As a youngster I think I filed it with The Racoons as having a catchy pop closing theme that differed from the opening theme and sort of promised something the show I'd just watch hadn't offered. (I was still a fan though)

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Aug 2

If it's any consolidation, a different member of your audience consulted her copy of Top of the Box volume 1 today for information about the 7" release of the Family Ness theme(s).

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Jul 31

I automatically took it to be older meaning when I first read your post. Is this the latest Bluesky age verification method?

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · Jul 25

What kind of age check is this? It shouted "Papa!" and I shouted "Nicole!" and it said I was old enough

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Jul 18

My obsession with the Fred and Ginger RKO movies, which helped foster an interest in 1930s Hollywood more generally, started when I happened to catch some of The Gay Divorcee during a gym session. Like so many of my favourite things, I discovered it by chance thanks to linear broadcasting.

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Jul 18

The BBC has RKO. These are the two great secrets of British free telly.

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Jul 16

What a great idea for a list - Consider it ❤️ed!

However, this reminds me I've been terrible at logging this year. I'm on my summer hols just now so perhaps I ought to spend some time backlogging...

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Jun 24

The Gay Divorcee followed by Midnight is a double bill from heaven for me... siiiiiighhhh 🩶

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Jun 21

"I'll automate my first draft with AI and then add the human stuff" is just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life and, in itself, an argument against using AI to draft anything if that's an example of same.

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Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Jun 21

An essential task indeed!

Alice Carradice @aliceca83.bsky.social · Jun 16

Memories of the school bus came flooding during the 1995 TOTP repeats...

I started secondary school around the time this came out. It was hell. #totp