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A restored, curated collection of Japanese silent films are going on an international tour courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s The Art of the Benshi 2024 World Tour.The Art of the ...
“I’ve gained this whole appreciation for the art of silent film making and how unique it is and how different it is. Not just from the musical aspects, but just the overall presentation and that live ...
It's hard to sum up the work silent film historian Ben Model does under one profession; he's a preservationist, a lecturer and teacher, an author, and accompanist and composer who performs his own ...
Emmy-nominated director Jerry London ("Shōgun," "The Scarlet and the Black") is set to shoot the France-set feature film "The ...
Laura Chaplin will exhibit around twenty of her paintings for the first time in Spain at Gómez & Molina Jewellery in central ...
After silent films, there were “the talkies,” where a recorded audio track was introduced. Later came color film. ... Art of Painting, begins March 29, 10 a.m.-noon, $250.
Art the Clown from the “Terrifier” films is played by New York-based actor David Howard Thornton, who will be at the Creep I.E. Con horror convention Feb. 4-5 along with the cast of the film ...
Many silent films from the early 1900s no longer exist. ... His art teacher had collected some, including one of Lupe Velez and Gary Cooper from the 1929 Western romance, ...
"The Californians," which features an L.A. fire, the theft of paintings and flashbacks to the silent movie era, is the latest from "Nine Shiny Objects" novelist Brian Castleberry.
Storytellers of silent film. A benshi is a performer. They’re the narrators of Japanese silent films, acting out characters on stage against the backdrop of the screen, and interpreting the film ...
Art the Clown is influenced by silent film actors and 'great horror villains' Thornton isn’t the first Art the Clown: Mike Giannelli played the villain in the 2013 anthology film “All Hallows ...