At the Modern Silent Shorts festival, moviegoers saw an old cinematic form brought back to life with seven brand-new films. At a one-night festival on an uninhabited island in the Hudson River, ...
A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the Library of Congress discovered it held the last known copy of the world’s ...
Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, ...
Kolkata witnessed a spellbinding evening on Thursday, as drummer and composer Stéphane Scharlé brought René Clair’s 1924 masterpiece Paris Qui Dort to life in a one-of-a-kind movie-concert at the ...
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 ...
Ichiro Kataoka reads narrations for a benshi performance. Benshi performers came to BYU's International Cinema as part of their "The Art of Benshi" tour. (Maya Taylor) Professional benshi silent film ...
A 30-minute montage of century-old newsreels stands as one of the more emotional film experiences I’ve had this year. Photo: Imperial War Museums, London “When we talk of this as a place of ...
The last time Abel Gance’s nearly six-hour 1927 silent film “Napoleon” screened in New York City, it was in a truncated version — only four hours. In 1981, Francis Ford Coppola rented out Radio City ...
From August 4 to 10, Lily Weisberg and Michael Bloom will tour New York and New Jersey with Modern Silent Shorts, a night dedicated to new works of silent film scored with live music. (Their dates are ...
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