Kennington Bioscope hosted a silent film weekend in November at which I had the chance to play for the feature-length Widdicombe Fair (Norman Walker, 1928), and a selection of shorts under the umbrella title of Nasty Women – rather a non-woke misnomer given that these comedy pieces simply showed women successfully rivalling men.
I continue to play regularly for the Bioscope, including in March the delightfully witty The Love Expert (David Kirkland, 1920), with the excellent Constance Talmadge.
The evening was reviewed by Paul Joyce, who regularly writes a (very long and well-informed) blog on silent film showings http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2023/03/triple-talmadge-love-expert-1920.html. I get a mention:
“Colin Sell played along with style, debonair digits delivering the elegant bon mots this film deserved, celebrating not the epic or the groundbreaking but the sheer entertainment and helping to restore the love for one of the brightest stars of the silent era.”
Colin Sell 