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Silent Hill fans, it’s officially time to freak out (again) because the new look at Return to Silent Hill just landed, and it ...
The film historian and accompanist talks to IndieWire about his work as a "missionary" for silent movies and his company's physical media releases of new restorations of two classic Tom Tyler Westerns ...
San Diego Theatres will screen a series of silent films accompanied by organists on various Mondays beginning in August at ...
How Silent-Film Actors Made the Leap to Talking Pictures. A 1946 guest column by comedian Jack Oakie recalls the first time he got a gig in a movie that had sound, and that "frightening" new ...
In Hollywoodland (as the original sign read), 1927 was a year of high irony, because just as silent movies reached a remarkable level of artistry, “talking pictures” burst onto the screen and ...
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., May 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Pictures announced today that it will continue its historic silent film initiative with an additional 10 titles to be restored and ...
At the same time, Paramount Pictures, the early dominant movie studio, stands out for how few of its 1,222 silent-era features survive. The study noted Paramount had no preservation program until ...
Michael Zahs has kept the films he discovered in 1981 among a local estate%27s treasures in his shed; A recent study of American silent films from 1912-29 revealed that only 25 percent of the ...
Universal Pictures, which celebrated its centennial in 2012, has announced that it will continue to pay tribute to the studio’s history by restoring silent films made in the early days of its ...
The silent-film era peaked almost a century ago and lost steam with the advent of the talkies. But now the films are making a comeback in New York City. Who needs talkies when silent pictures are ...
Chico >> It”s hard to believe now but at one point silent film was once the cutting edge of modern technology. It remains engraved in cinematic history and continues its legacy with Chico”s ...