Robert Eggers’ lushly gothic remake of “Nosferatu” is a loving homage to silent films, with its dramatic black-and-white scenes and overpowering sense of creeping dread. The eerie images of Count ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

A Bay Area attorney who researched silent films as a hobby, John Bengtson spent decades tracking down the exact streets where ...

Silent movies have long been paired with music but a new theater program brings a rock edge to the proceedings. This week, Maya Cinemas will host screenings of Silent Synced's version of the 1925 ...

Recently I took my two daughters to see a silent film at Film Forum here in New York. “Kid Boots” was a hit romantic comedy of 1926, starring the stage comic Eddie Cantor (roughly the Martin Short of ...

Silent films are decidedly out of style, but the Denver Silent Film Festival hopes to rekindle the audience’s amazement with moving pictures by showing off classic films in the same context in which ...

It’s been a moment since the world’s first real motion picture debuted, the 1895 black-and-white documentary “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon.” But in some minds silent films are as ...

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