In new movie “Silent Night,” parents, children, friends, family, neighbors, loved ones and acquaintances humiliate themselves to death — and worse than death.

In the film, the Tramp (Chaplin’s destitute, trademark screen hero) finds low-grade work in a factory, but the big-wigs in charge consistently introduce new, temperamental, disagreeable ...

The unheralded silent film studio Vitagraph is given its proper due in new Blu-ray collection VItagraph Comedies, curated by the Library of Congress.

100 years after Variety sang its praises, Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush maintains its status as a great and elaborate comedy.

Whereas Chaplin’s vision was essentially theatrical, Keaton’s was specific to the screen—he moved like the moving pictures. Adam Gopnik on biographies by James Curtis and Dana Stevens.

The pair joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to talk about their most recent feature film “Hundreds of Beavers” — a modern silent, supernatural, winter epic of a slapstick comedy.

After a hiatus, the rock and roll band The Silent Comedy (which includes the brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman) is back with a vengeance, reissuing their album Enemies Multiply on local ...

A modern silent slapstick comedy, "Hundreds of Beavers," is having its Boston-area premiere at the Somerville Theater tonight, and is showing through March 7.

Silent House Theatre Company is taking the nonchalant attitude implied in “Much Ado About Nothing’s” title with a production of the Shakespearean comedy that’s heavy on partying and ...

The Silent Comedy Watch Party highlights short films from the silent era every Sunday at noon with live piano accompaniment.

Michel Hazanavicius’ "The Artist" is a charming silent comedy featuring a fantastic turn by Jean Dujardin and impressive production design that will transport audiences back to the golden age of ...