This year’s Hippodrome Silent Film Festival celebrates the work of legendary Hollywood screenwriter Frances Marion. I delivered an online lecture … More
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Hippfest 2023
For this year’s Hippodrome Silent Film Festival, I contributed programme notes on four films, and I will introduce the screening … More
Hippfest 2022
At this year’s Hippodrome Silent Film Festival, I introduced a double-bill of female-led westerns, mentored students from St Andrews for … More
Hippfest 2019
The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival is very special indeed. I wrote this report from its ninth edition for Sight & … More
Pabst’s treasure
At the recent Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema in Scotland I gave a lecture on women in the films of GW … More
The Grub Stake at Hippfest
A real honour to write programme notes for, and to introduce the screening of Nell Shipman’s The Grub Stake (1923) … More
Hipp to be silent
At Scotland’s only silent film festival, the fabulous Hippfest, I wrote programme notes for screenings of Mania, starring Pola Negri, … More
Synthetic Sin at the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema
Every time of day is a good time to watch a Colleen Moore film. So I was delighted to write … More
Festival radar: Hippodrome festival of silent cinema
Shortened to #hippfest on social media, the Hippodrome festival of silent cinema is one of the most welcoming and charming … More