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Intern Finds Only Known Surviving Copy of ‘The Heart of Lincoln,’ a Silent Film Thought to Be Lost to History
Released in 1915, the film was directed by Francis Ford, the brother of famed filmmaker John Ford. It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" ...
13 Essential Animated Films With No Dialogue
It has been updated to include the Oscar-nominated animated film Flow, which is now streaming on Max. Animation has been a part of cinema since the beginning — it’s believed that Emile Cohl’s ...
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Why a 100-year-old film about a ‘City Without Jews’ seems disturbingly prescient today
Make Utopia great again — by deporting the Jews. That is the premise of the 1924 German silent film, The City Without Jews, which screened most recently at YIVO on Feb. 11, with live accompanying ...
Ben Affleck’s Dunkin’ Donuts Ad Inadvertently Hired John Candy’s Son. What Happened When People Found Out
The Dunkin’ Donuts tracksuit came back for Ben Affleck’s Super Bowl LIX commercial. While the Bostonian packed a lot into his ...
What happens when you pair Buster Keaton and REM? A night of fun at the River Oaks Theatre
The latest version of the Silents Synced series uses songs from two REM albums as the soundtrack for Keaton's 'Sherlock Jr.' ...
Oscar-Nominated ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent’ Tells Chilling Story Of What Happened Aboard Train 671 Three Decades Ago
The Oscar-nominated short 'The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,' is based on a real atrocity that occurred during the Bosnian ...
Anatomy of a Scene: the world goes silent in Herk Harvey’s ‘Carnival of Souls’
The depiction of female mental illness in Herk Harvey's 1962 movie 'Carnival of Souls' is rather groundbreaking, exploring trauma, anxiety, and paranoia.