Theaters from Washington to Florida and Massachusetts to Arizona show silent films accompanied by live music played on ...
On March 28, the audience at the Wallenstien Theater will be swept back to a time when girls were flappers, young men were sheiks, jazz was king and liquor was bootlegged when Allied Arts screens the ...
Director Zilbalodis, 30, who started working on the film in 2019 after finishing his debut film Away and used the free and ...
Only one truly silent film has triumphed at the Oscars, and it's held this remarkable record for a very long time.
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" ...
Rich Hein/Sun-Times, file Share Dennis Wolkowicz harnessed the sound of an entire symphony orchestra when he sat at a theater organ to accompany silent films. “It’s a special organ, an ...
Both exalt art as a calling. After a movie collapses as a result of a scandal, Tinseltown’s moguls blacklist Klaus, who flees ...
“Wings” (1927), a silent war film directed by William A. Wellman, won the Best Picture award—along with the Oscar for Best ...
Once upon a time, in the world of movies, the movie characters we saw on screen were as predictable as any rom-com ending.
The 28th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival will be Feb. 28 and March 1 at Washburn University. Author Scott Eyman, who has written extensively about Hollywood's Golden Age, will be a guest speaker.