Yesterday it was reported that Twickenham Film Studios is to close. Administrators have been called in, and the business will have been wound down completely by June 2012. Twickenham had been used for such classics as A Hard Day’s Night, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Repulsion, Alfie, An American Werewolf in London and Blade Runner, and at least three films up for Academy Awards this year used the studios facilities in one form or another (War Horse, My Week with Marilyn and The Iron Lady). 
Those lucky enough to attend the Oakland, Calif. screenings of Napoleon on March 24, 25 and 31 and April 1 will see the culmination of Kevin Brownlow's work of over 45 years to save and restore this monumental epic by director Abel Gance. This will be the most complete and lavish screening of Napoleon ever shown in this country, with an orchestra of 46 playing a score by Carl Davis, and the Art Deco Paramount Theatre outfitted with three synchronized projectors for the film's remarkable Polyvision sequences. 
The great French artist Fernand Léger once said, "The cinema and aviation go arm in arm through life; they are born on the same day." While not literally true, Léger's observation is true enough. Aviation and motion pictures came of age together.
The historic Twickenham Film Studios in south-west London, recently used for The Iron Lady and My Week with Marilyn, goes into administration. 
Silent movie The Artist wins the Best European Film prize at the Spanish cinema awards, the Goyas. 
It’s no longer news that the most acclaimed movie of the past year, well on its way to earning an Oscar or two, is a modern-day French silent picture called The Artist. But it’s not the only silent film making news. HE WAS one of the biggest stars of Hollywood’s silent era, but the movie offers soon dried up as audience interest moved to the “talkies”. 
Shhh...! Whisper it quietly, but it’s fair to say that 2012 is likely to be the biggest year in silent cinema for nearly eight decades. 
You saw “The Artist” and loved it?Then learn more about LA’s silent film spots... 
Vocal dexterity has taken a backseat to quiet eloquence among many of the contenders, and not just those in the silent The Artist. 
Letter from the American Foreign Service to MI5 seeking biographical information on Charlie Chaplin and evidence of communist affilation, from The National Archives, catalogue reference KV 2/3700 
This band’s always up to something weird, and this is no exception. 
Oliver (Jackie Coogan) meets the Artful Dodger (Edouard Trebaol) in Oliver Twist (1922), from www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm |
Sound & Silents: Mary Pickford Revived I LIVE MUSIC TO SILENT FILM Fri 9 March, 8pm Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
Birds Eye View has commissioned four cutting-edge female musicians to write and perform new live scores to a range of Mary Pickford’s most visionary and entertaining work. 
After seeing Michel Hazanavicius’s exuberant and playful French silent movie “The Artist,” I found myself thinking of Louise Brooks’s back—her bare back, which she employed to such devastating dramatic effect as Lulu, in “Pandora’s Box” (1929), the German silent movie that made her an icon in the history of erotic cinema. 
Culpeper author Brian Taves sets the record straight about the life – and untimely death – of an early film mogul in a comprehensive new biography, “Thomas Ince: Hollywood’s Independent Pioneer.”... 
Come out and see us next weekend, we’ll be sponsoring several films, a few silent films and previewing two new trailers for the Flying Ace with multiple soundtracks featuring local Jacksonville musicians Bob Moore, Tony Steve, and local band “Starring Me.” 
This intertitle, from the Charley Chase-Leo McCarey short HIS WOODEN WEDDING, strikes me as the greatest achievement of western civilisation. Of course, by tomorrow I may have a new favourite... 
This is the Oscars ' year of nostalgia — or at least that has been the pronouncement among observers. There is, of course, "The Artist," a silent film set in the silent film era. 
After failing miserably on the set of their first "talkie", Mary Pickford (America's sweetheart) and Louise Brooks (The Vamp) vow never to speak again . Out of work and past their prime, they become roommates in Brooklyn. 
YORK – York Elementary School’s team of silent film directors had an important meeting on Thursday. This comical little short takes the form of a silent movie, and is set in the late 19th century. A young man emerges from a small hotel, and on the beach a girl holding a love letter waits enthusiastically for their first meeting. However, when they are about to kiss, their lips move back and forth irregularly, and from that point on .. well you'll have to watch it to find out! 
The largely silent film "The Artist" wasn't as much of a challenge to its editor as you might think. She had been taught to edit without sound. 
Set in Hollywood during 1927 to 1932, The Artist depicts the romance between a fading silent film star and a rising “talkie” ingénue. The Artist has received glowing reviews and numerous awa... 
George Lucas has today unveiled plans to re-release all six Star Wars films in an exciting 'Silent' format. |
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