Bryony Dixon

Bryony has researched and written on many aspects of early and silent film and co-directs the annual British Silent Film Festival, as well as programming for a variety of film festivals and events worldwide. She has given papers at academic conferences on film and organised the first International Charles Chaplin Conference in 2005 as part of the BFI’s Chaplin Project.

She is the author of 100 Silent Films (BFI Screen Guides, 2011), co-edited Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema before 1930 (University of Exeter, 2007) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on silent cinema and archiving. She is also a regular contributor to Sight & Sound. She has been lead curator on a number of the BFI’s recent film restorations, including Underground (1928), Wonderful London (1924), The Great White Silence (1924) and all nine surviving Hitchcock silent films.

Articles by Bryony Dixon

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A thoroughly modern Betty: rediscovering Betty Balfour’s Love, Life and Laughter

The mesmerising allure of Betty Balfour in Love, Life and Laughter, lost for almost a century, can now be enjoyed in a sparkling restoration, says Bryony Dixon.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

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Washed away: lost films by female directors

Cinema’s pre-segregated heyday of female filmmaking is sadly also its most hidden from history. Here seven critics nominate lost treasures they hope might yet be rediscovered.

Friday, October 2, 2015

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A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating

A selection of critics and curators each nominate a vital female voice in film criticism, with an example of their writing.

Sunday, March 8, 2015

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