Joe Rinaudo has spent his life preserving silent films... and building a silent cinema palace.

The actor and director deserves to be remembered alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of Hollywood’s comedy ...

Japanese cinemas featured benshi, live narrators who voiced characters and explained plots. These performers drew inspiration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Eggers’ lushly gothic remake of “Nosferatu” is a loving homage to silent films, with its dramatic black-and-white scenes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the ...

Seventy-five percent of the film made in the original silent-era have been lost forever, according to a new comprehensive study from the Library of Congress. The study is the first to quantify what ...

Today, silent films still are celebrated and enjoyed at film festivals – even some festivals that only screen silent films. September 28 of this year was deemed National Silent Film Day. Companies ...

Duck Soup Cinema at Overture Center in Madison, Wis., announced its upcoming season lineup, featuring three silent films with ...

The film historian and accompanist talks to IndieWire about his work as a "missionary" for silent movies and his company's physical media releases of new restorations of two classic Tom Tyler Westerns ...

Jeremy has more than 2600 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

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, ...

During Hollywood’s early years, women commonly occupied positions of filmmaking power. In the silent era there were a dozen women directors and several dozen women screenwriters. A couple of women ...