All articles by Bryony Dixon
10 great British silent films
As the landmark British silent film Piccadilly lands on Blu-ray, we turn the clock back to the roaring 20s and beyond in search of some of the UK’s finest silent feature films.
By Bryony Dixon, Neil Brand and others
Finds of the century: 12 great films from 1921
By Bryony Dixon and Pamela Hutchinson
Pimple and the tramp: the fickle fortunes of a silent comedy star
By Bryony Dixon
The best British TV of 2020, picked by BFI curators
By Robin Baker, Josephine Botting and others
The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women
By Isabel Stevens, Bryony Dixon and others
What to watch at LFF: How 3 pioneering Australian sisters made a silent gem
By Bryony Dixon
Silent film and the great pandemic of 1918
By Bryony Dixon
Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #3
By Bryony Dixon, Ros Cranston and others
Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #2
By Jez Stewart, Patrick Russell and others
A thoroughly modern Betty: rediscovering Betty Balfour’s Love, Life and Laughter
By Bryony Dixon
How the Victorians first saw their world on film
By Bryony Dixon
The best British TV of 2017
By Bryony Dixon, William Fowler and others
Kinemacolor: dazzling colour film frames from more than 100 years ago
By Bryony Dixon
The best British TV of 2017 so far
By Lisa Kerrigan, Josephine Botting and others
It’s time for one of the great British silent films to get its due: The Informer
By Bryony Dixon
Fascinating suffragette films now on BFI Player
By Bryony Dixon, Edward Anderson and others
How to make your first (silent) movie count
By Bryony Dixon
Washed away: lost films by female directors
By Isabel Stevens, Pamela Hutchinson and others
Why bomb Bath? – Blitzed cities captured on film
By Bryony Dixon
A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating
By Anne Billson, Mark Cousins and others
The joys of archival discovery: The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands
By Bryony Dixon
A user’s guide to going to the cinema in 1914
By Bryony Dixon
Hitchcock and Chaplin celebrated as great Londoners on the London Eye
By Bryony Dixon and Nathalie Morris
Chaplin’s little tramp born 100 years ago
By Bryony Dixon
Hitchcock and the mystery of the tea cup
By Bryony Dixon