Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall?
For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, clocking up several festivals and individual screenings. Pordenone and Bologna, Zurich, Hippfest, Slapstick, Cinema Rediscovered, Women and the Silent Screen in Belgium, plus Anna May Wong, Gosta Berlings Saga, Stella Dallas, Lillian Gish, Lois Weber, Film on Film and more at the Southbank. Did you catch Bonn, San Franciscso, the non-stop action at the Kennington Bioscope, or any of the many, many silent screenings all around the world? How about Sherlock Holmes?
It was the year of the new Nosferatu, and modern silents galore, including an Oscar for Flow, Palestine: A Revised Narrative at Pordenone, and Breaking Plates… everywhere. We had a great year for books on silent film (refresh your memory here and here) and home cinema too, with releases including Finis Terrae, Battleship Potemkin, A Woman of Paris, Merry Go-Round, and Laurel & Hardy classics.
Please, share your discoveries with your fellow fans via the Silent London Poll, which is now a simple-to-use Google Form.
As ever, only two questions in the poll are mandatory – so even if you have to skip some sections, I really, really want to collect your votes in the other categories. Silent cinema is worth shouting about.
Scroll down to start voting, or click here to load on a new tab. The poll will stay open until mid January, so you have time to think and watch and think some more … You will not be silenced!
Happy voting!
- Something to look forward to in the new year: Louise Brooks on Blu-ray!
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