Blogs, Websites, and Networks
Hans Helmut Prinzler
Filmbuch-Rezensionen und Aktuelles
A unique monthly review in German of current film books, including books about Weimar cinema. The site is best known for its Buch des Monats feature – the recognition each month of a new outstanding film book. The archive of these monthly online reviews, from 1961 to the present, can be found on this website/blog.
Klaus Kreimeier
The Early Silent Era 1895-1915
This blog (in English) consists of concise essays that cover topics around one or more films from world cinema before 1915. Searchable by country, director, genre, and key words.
Thomas Gladysz
Louise Brooks Society
This blog and website center around the American film star Louise Brooks who acted in such iconic German films as Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora’s Box. The Blog also contains numerous links to international film websites and magazines about the Jazz Age.
Pamela Hutchinson
Silent London
A blog with 13,000 followers and “a place for people who love silent film,” features richly illustrated, analytical essays on known and recently discovered silent films and their larger contexts. Invaluable links to other blogs and silent film websites and festivals, as well as the biographies of silent film musicians.
Keith Withall
Early and Silent Film
A British blog with focus on long reviews of new DVD releases and silent film festival, such as the Weimar cinema retrospective at the Berlinale 2018.
Women Film Pioneers Project
"A scholarly website that provides digital resources for the exploration of “women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent era.”
Domitor
This website is the home of the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, which focuses on cinema from its emergence to its institutionalization around 1915. Launched in 1985 at the Pordenone Silent Film festival, it has become a portal for research on early cinema and a host of the biennial international conference on aspects of early cinema. The last conference was held in Paris.