“It was a very bad movie,” he told Francois Truffaut. “The producers were always trying to break into the American market, so ...

Years ago, the late renowned film archivist David Shepard put together a restored version of Merry-Go-Round (1923) from two16mm reduction prints. Film historians and silent film enthusiasts ...

It’s hard to sum up the work silent film historian Ben Model does under one profession; he’s a preservationist, a lecturer and teacher, an author, and accompanist and composer who performs his own ...

A silent 1930s film observing the daily life and survival of grasshoppers. Close-ups highlight anatomy, life cycle, and encounters with predators, blending documentary realism with surreal imagery.

Though silent films haven't been the mainstream norm for the best part of a century, they've never gone away. Just look at Flow, which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar. With absolutely no ...

The 35-year-old director's stunning new feature, starring Jackson Yee and Shu Qi, won a special honor at the Cannes Film Festival and will be released in U.S. and Chinese theaters later this year.

‘The King of Kings’ put artsy visual techniques to exalted effect. It’s just been rereleased. Introducing Jesus to a new generation of moviegoers was a task Cecil B. DeMille undertook with ...

A classic silent film, The Lost World (1925), boasted stop-motion dinosaurs created by Willis O'Brien, who went on to animate the prehistoric monsters who fought King Kong in 1933.

EXCLUSIVE: Fallen Giant Films, the production company of actor and filmmaker Randy J. Goodwin, on Friday announced a new documentary project exploring the life and legacy of famed soap opera star ...

In his spirit, Velas has hosted old-fashioned ice-cream socials, an Ides of March celebration and an annual séance series, at which silent-movie vamp Theda Bara recently showed up, in a rather ...