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

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.

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

I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin two years ago in Bologna, Italy. I was about four weeks into a five-week summer session with Virginia Tech, and had been living with five other students: four ...

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 ...

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.

Given that silent films rely on visual storytelling and the odd intertitle, it makes sense that comedy was so central to cinema’s creation. Clowns and mimes knew the power of a good sight gag ...

The face of silent cinema and a pioneer of filmmaking, Chaplin's signature character, the Little Tramp, may have been a bumbling fool, but the man himself was an ingenious and groundbreaking ...

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 ...

April 19, 2023 at 12:15 pm PDT. 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 ...

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.Radio Boston sits down with the movie ...