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10 great films of 1925
Happy 100th anniversary to the class of ’25, from The Gold Rush to Battleship Potemkin.
By Pamela Hutchinson
10 great films of 1925
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The birth of action: 10 sensational stunts from the silent era
By David Parkinson
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Restoration of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases to premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival
Restoration of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases to premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival10 great
10 great films of 1924
By Pamela Hutchinson
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Napoleon: 10 unmissable highlights from Abel Gance’s five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece
By Pamela Hutchinson
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These rural English comedies from the silent era are gobsmackingly beautiful
By Bryony Dixon
10 great
10 great films of 1923
By Pamela Hutchinson
10 great
10 great British silent films
By Bryony Dixon, Neil Brand and others
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Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration project
Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration projectFeatures
How the Lulu bob became cinema’s most imitated haircut
By Pamela Hutchinson
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BFI Recommends: The Great White Silence
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Where to stream
Where to stream the best silent films
By Pamela Hutchinson
Where to begin
Where to begin with Lillian Gish
By Pamela Hutchinson
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Lost for nearly a century, Love, Life and Laughter screens as BFI LFF’s Archive Special Presentation with live musical accompaniment
Lost for nearly a century, Love, Life and Laughter screens as BFI LFF’s Archive Special Presentation with live musical accompanimentWhere to begin
Where to begin with early women filmmakers
By Pamela Hutchinson
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How Weimar cinema influenced 6 modern genres
By Alex Barrett
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How the Victorians first saw their world on film
By Bryony Dixon
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4 hard-and-fast rules of filmmaking... and how The Passion of Joan of Arc breaks them
By Alex Barrett
10 great
10 great silent romances
By Pamela Hutchinson
Where to begin
Where to begin with city symphonies
By Pamela Hutchinson
10 great
10 great German expressionist films
By Pamela Hutchinson and Alex Barrett
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The serial-killer thriller that launched Alfred Hitchcock’s career
By Pamela Hutchinson
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Metropolis at 90: 5 early sci-fi films that paved the way for Fritz Lang’s classic
By Pamela Hutchinson
10 great
10 great silent epics
By Pamela Hutchinson
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It’s time for one of the great British silent films to get its due: The Informer
By Bryony Dixon
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Fascinating suffragette films now on BFI Player
By Bryony Dixon, Edward Anderson and others
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How to make your first (silent) movie count
By Bryony Dixon
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The joys of archival discovery: The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands
By Bryony Dixon
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Restoring The Epic of Everest
By Bryony Dixon
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Restoring Hitchcock #4: the trouble with Champagne
By Bryony Dixon