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.

Winner of Israel’s Oscar equivalent for best documentary, Ilil Alexander?s 2004 video portrait of three “Ortho-dykes”—lesbians who are religiously observant Jews—faced the same ...

A new study unveiled by the Library of Congress notes that a scant 14 percent of the feature films produced and distributed in the U.S. from 1912-29 exist in their original 35mm format.

Francis Ford as the 16th president in “The Heart of Lincoln,” which he also directed. The newly discovered film had been among 7,000 silent films deemed lost by the Library of Congress.

It’s been two years since the Denver Silent Film Festival went more silent than usual. The pandemic ate up two seasons of the event, which was co-founded in 2010 by CU Denver Director of Film ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long Island. Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films ...

Actress Olivia Munn revealed this week she rejected a studio's offer of more than $1 million to keep silent about a "traumatic" on-set incident. She is seen here arriving at an awards dinner in 2024.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then John Woo‘s wordless action movie “Silent Night” is worth at least a thousand gunshots. Woo returns to Hollywood for the first time since 2003 to ...

The 22-minute film opens with a card reading: “With June’s glorious sunlight dancing on the ripples, and love’s glory surging in his heart, the hardy son of the backwoods hastens to keep his ...