On Sunday I had the very great pleasure of introducing a double-bill of Anna May Wong silents: the UK premieres of new restorations of Song (Richard Eichberg, 1928, restored by Filmmuseum Düsseldorf) and Pavement Butterfly (Richard Eichberg, 1929, restored by DFF) at Cinema Rediscovered in Bristol. Beautiful films, a beautiful audience and simply gorgeous musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne. Wish you could have been there – maybe you were?

But that is not the last that you will hear from Anna May Wong this year. In September, a retrospective curated by Xin Peng will be held at BFI Southbank, titled Anna May Wong: the Art of Reinvention. The schedule takes in a broad spectrum of Wong’s silent and sound films, many with introductions, beginning with the Technicolor gem The Toll of the Sea (Chest M. Franklin, 1922) on 35mm.