PaulAJoyce
@paulajoyce.bsky.social
I write about silent film and theatre when I’m not publishing, cycling, walking or listening. Flaps of the blue butterfly’s wings will feature LFC.
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A rare 35mm Weimar treat unearthed by Tony Fletcher @BFI archive, starring Andrée Lafayette, Bernhard Goetzke and the multi-talented former Barcelona player Félix de Pomés!
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
Don't be judgy… The Hangman (1928) with Colin Sell, Kennington Bioscope
This was a Weimar surprise unearthed on 35mm from the BFI’s archives by the diligence of Tony Fletcher and given its first outing in man...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A rare 35mm Weimar treat unearthed by Tony Fletcher @BFI archive, starring Andrée Lafayette, Bernhard Goetzke and the multi-talented former Barcelona player Félix de Pomés!
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
The first feature film?
The Kelly Gang c1906
A classic Australian origin story. Forged in hardship. Raging at authority.
A classic Australian origin story. Forged in hardship. Raging at authority.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The first feature film?
A movie that takes place where you’re from…
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from…
A rare 35mm Weimar treat unearthed by Tony Fletcher @BFI archive, starring Andrée Lafayette, Bernhard Goetzke and the multi-talented former Barcelona player Félix de Pomés!
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
Don't be judgy… The Hangman (1928) with Colin Sell, Kennington Bioscope
This was a Weimar surprise unearthed on 35mm from the BFI’s archives by the diligence of Tony Fletcher and given its first outing in man...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A rare 35mm Weimar treat unearthed by Tony Fletcher @BFI archive, starring Andrée Lafayette, Bernhard Goetzke and the multi-talented former Barcelona player Félix de Pomés!
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/dont...
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SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Kennington Bioscope presents Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Kennington Bioscope presents a jam-packed day of special presentations, some rediscoveries and restorations and a few old favourites too.
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Kennington Bioscope presents Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Kennington Bioscope presents a jam-packed day of special presentations, some rediscoveries and restorations and a few old favourites too.
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
This is for the McIntyres in my family and my pal Gregor from Paisley!! Gettinnn!! 🏴🏴
a blue and white flag with an x on it
ALT: a blue and white flag with an x on it
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November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is for the McIntyres in my family and my pal Gregor from Paisley!! Gettinnn!! 🏴🏴
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Nice review for Criterion's 4K of HELL'S ANGELS (1930) and some kind words for my visual essay on Jean Harlow, from Glenn Erickson at Trailers From Hell. trailersfromhell.com/hells-angels...
Hell's Angels - 4K - Trailers From Hell
A 4K remaster puts a high polish on Howard Hughes’ WW1 air war epic — an enormous personal project that allowed the playboy tycoon to indulge his obsessions for women, movies and especially aviation. ...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Nice review for Criterion's 4K of HELL'S ANGELS (1930) and some kind words for my visual essay on Jean Harlow, from Glenn Erickson at Trailers From Hell. trailersfromhell.com/hells-angels...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I finally absorbed the BFI's new Blu-ray release featuring a 21st Century score for a film as much about 1925 as the events it depicts from 1905. That said, resistance is timeless.
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/pet-...
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Pet Shop Potemkin… Battleship Potemkin (1925), BFI Blu-ray
Eisenstein apparently said that the film should have a new soundtrack for every decade to complement his imagery, which has remained so...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I finally absorbed the BFI's new Blu-ray release featuring a 21st Century score for a film as much about 1925 as the events it depicts from 1905. That said, resistance is timeless.
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/pet-...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/11/pet-...
“At least 2.5 million Muslim soldiers and labourers are reported to have fought with the Allied forces in the First World War and 5.5 million in the Second World War. Nearly 1.5 million Muslims were killed in action.”
news.sky.com/story/memori....
news.sky.com/story/memori....
Memorial to be built for Muslim soldiers who fought and died alongside UK troops in World Wars
At least 2.5 million Muslim soldiers and labourers are reported to have fought with the Allied forces in the First World War and 5.5 million in the Second World War. Nearly 1.5 million Muslims were ki...
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“At least 2.5 million Muslim soldiers and labourers are reported to have fought with the Allied forces in the First World War and 5.5 million in the Second World War. Nearly 1.5 million Muslims were killed in action.”
news.sky.com/story/memori....
news.sky.com/story/memori....
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#SamCooke You Send Me open.spotify.com/track/6gbv4E...
You Send Me
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November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#SamCooke You Send Me open.spotify.com/track/6gbv4E...
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Frank Fisher Apartments, Andrew Rebori, Chicago, 1939
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Frank Fisher Apartments, Andrew Rebori, Chicago, 1939
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Monica Vitti, born 3 November 1931.
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Monica Vitti, born 3 November 1931.
A full day of electronica at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool for Levitation 2025 run by the remarkable @castlesinspace.bsky.social . So much variety and truly spellbinding sets from Loula Yorke, Field Lines Cartographer, Pulselovers (natch) and others.
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A full day of electronica at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool for Levitation 2025 run by the remarkable @castlesinspace.bsky.social . So much variety and truly spellbinding sets from Loula Yorke, Field Lines Cartographer, Pulselovers (natch) and others.
Anyone at @castlesinspace.bsky.social Levitation 2025 who wants to see the complete silent film Pulselovers are projecting onto their guitar amp… here it is! Stan & Ollie, Sailors Beware (1927)!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLc6...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLc6...
Laurel & Hardy - Sailors, Beware!
YouTube video by Laurel & Hardy
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November 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Anyone at @castlesinspace.bsky.social Levitation 2025 who wants to see the complete silent film Pulselovers are projecting onto their guitar amp… here it is! Stan & Ollie, Sailors Beware (1927)!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLc6...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLc6...
Happy Birthday to the legendary Lee Grant!
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Happy Birthday to the legendary Lee Grant!
The Monkey’s Paw (2025), The Hope Theatre until 8th November.
A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ re-working of the famous horror story that foregrounds the social issues of pre-WWI Britain whilst also spooking you out! #Herbert GO SEE IT!
ithankyoutheatre.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ re-working of the famous horror story that foregrounds the social issues of pre-WWI Britain whilst also spooking you out! #Herbert GO SEE IT!
ithankyoutheatre.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The paw law… The Monkey’s Paw (2025), The Hope Theatre
Steven Maddocks and Josephine Rogers (photo Cam Harle ) The Hope Theatre gets inside your head, it’s a box of delights that closes in on ...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Monkey’s Paw (2025), The Hope Theatre until 8th November.
A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ re-working of the famous horror story that foregrounds the social issues of pre-WWI Britain whilst also spooking you out! #Herbert GO SEE IT!
ithankyoutheatre.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ re-working of the famous horror story that foregrounds the social issues of pre-WWI Britain whilst also spooking you out! #Herbert GO SEE IT!
ithankyoutheatre.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Comes with two shirts…
October 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Comes with two shirts…
I couldn’t resist Arthur *and* Sid!!
October 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I couldn’t resist Arthur *and* Sid!!
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Outstanding release from the BFI of Ken Russell's finest on UHD - which gives the film the look and analysis it richly deserves!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
Rainbow’s End? Women in Love (1969), BFI UHD out now!
"She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Outstanding release from the BFI of Ken Russell's finest on UHD - which gives the film the look and analysis it richly deserves!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
Prestatyn’s own Peggy Cummins!!
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Prestatyn’s own Peggy Cummins!!
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I can't begin to explain what it's like here. So I won't bother.
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I can't begin to explain what it's like here. So I won't bother.
Outstanding release from the BFI of Ken Russell's finest on UHD - which gives the film the look and analysis it richly deserves!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
Rainbow’s End? Women in Love (1969), BFI UHD out now!
"She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Outstanding release from the BFI of Ken Russell's finest on UHD - which gives the film the look and analysis it richly deserves!
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/rain...
Blackley Conkers Championship 1932?
Huge crowd at Boggart Hole Clough, Blackley, Manchester, early 20th century. Not sure what the occasion was.
October 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Blackley Conkers Championship 1932?