@mikemashon
Former Library of Congress film/video person, now at leisure. President of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Acting President, Association of Moving Image Archivists and IndieCollect Board Member. Geaux Tigers.
"Stan" is an exceptionally moving and affectionate play by the multi-talented Neil Brand, someone who's very much attuned to the personal relationship between Laurel and Hardy. Looking forward to hearing it again!
If you don’t know much about QUEEN KELLY, let me put it this way: the backstory to SUNSET BOULEVARD was even more shocking than you imagined…
I was honored to blurb Pamela's brilliant new history of Queen Kelly, whose chaotic implosion has long begged for a treatment like this. It's a great read!
I second that emotion! This video gives me all the feels. I miss my brilliant colleagues and especially those exciting times when one of them would turn up something completely unexpected.
What a find! The LOC keeps turning up treasures.
Same! I can play it with "incorrect" finger placement, but it's a bear.
The whole slate. April 8-11. 42 presentations, 17 sessions, 50+ presenters.
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Fred Wiseman and Mike Mashon, June 2003
One of the greatest privileges of my life to help acquire the Frederick Wiseman Collection for @librarycongress.bsky.social; if you know his work, you can imagine how massive an acquisition it was. Fred was as extraordinary a person as he was a filmmaker.
I use @letterboxd.social as a memory aid and the review feature as notes to my future self when inevitably I forget how I felt about a title in the moment. But it's full of perceptive and often hilarious commentary that has enriched my cinephilia.
Spectacular conversation between two of the best, full of insight (and links! so many links!)
Great article that doubles as a powerful testament to film preservation. Kudos to Katie Trainor, Greg Pierce, and the crew at Colorlab.
The Library of Congress has announced 25 new films added to the National Film Registry. Two silents from the teens have been preserved with NFPF funding and are now available to stream on the NFPF's website: THE OATH OF THE SWORD (1914) & THE MAID OF MCMILLAN (1916). Follow the thread for the links.
NEWS: The Library of Congress has selected 25 films for the National Film Registry due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. Highlights in this thread. 🧵
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/01/...
#NatFilmRegistry
Another reason to subscribe to Andrew’s @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast: several episodes do an outstanding job explaining film and sound recording copyright both in Europe and the US.
The Library of Congress has a 16mm copyright print!
I watched 261 features last year.
24 features directed by Mikio Naruse and 11 by Michael Powell. Also seven by Robert Altman and six by Ernst Lubitsch.
Because I watched a lot of Naruse films, my most watched actors list is full of Japanese actors I don’t otherwise recognize.
I enjoy going through filmographies (in order!) and in 2025 that was Mikio Naruse’s. I watched 86 films on @criterionchannl.bsky.social, still the best $99 value out there.
Went for the first time last year; such a treat! The venue is charming, the musicians are top shelf, and the hospitality is second-to-none.
The first silent flm I ever saw was Orphans of the Storm from the series The Silent Years, broadcast on Little Rock PBS station KETS in 1971. No exaggeration to say it quite literally changed my life and led to a rewarding career at the Library of Congress. Very sad about this.
Happy birthday friend! You have already accomplished so much, can’t wait to see what’s next.
It was an outstanding conference and I'm forever grateful to be part of the Association of Moving Image Archivists community. Join us!
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960
proud to vote for you
Dan and Maria are enduring a Kafkaesque nightmare not of their doing. Please help if you can.
I'm nearly exclusively audiobooks and would be interested in what you mean by "improved by that format." (I do find memoirs read by skilled narrator/authors to be pretty consistently entertaining). Thought "A Man of Iron" was terrific.
Bill Morrison will deliver the closing keynoteat #AMIA25. His keynote will feature a special screening of his Academy Award–nominated film Incident with a discussion of his creative process and the evolving role of archival media in contemporary filmmaking. https://loom.ly/ifQLvOc
We're proud to be co-presenting the 1929 film ASPHALT at the #SFSFF on Sun, Nov 16, 5:00 pm, Orinda Theatre . Live musical accompaniment by the Sascha Jacobsen Ensemble Use use the promo code NOIRSF for $2 off at checkout: bit.ly/4p1eMFM
@eddiemuller.bsky.social @moviessilently.bsky.social
And you can see film of the 1924 Game 7 here blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear...
lol and that's Nacogdoches! my point still stands 🙃
Real ones know the difference in pronunciation between Natchitoches, LA, and Nagodoches, TX (and can spell them correctly).
I was gobsmacked by Elvis’ cover of “I Just Don’t Know What to
Do With Myself,” as an early inkling of his wide influences.
