Almost 100 years ago, Charlie Chaplin released one of his most iconic works, The Gold Rush. But unless you saw the movie ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine — When the Leavitt Theatre first opened its doors in 1925, it was a pioneering hub for the latest cinematic innovation: silent films accompanied by live music. Now, in 2025, the ...

The movie, which is silent, has been praised as ‘something quite special’ in the run-up to awards season after first premiering at Cannes last May (Picture: Dream Well Studio) ‘It’s not ...

The film, which was named to the U.S. National film Registry in 2021, is one of the few remaining examples of a genre of early cinema marketed to Black audiences during the era of segregation.

One of the buzziest films on this year's Christmas release docket was Robert Eggers' long-anticipated Nosferatu (2024). Starring the likes of Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Bill Skarsgård in ...

Movie cameras are on display at Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. One of which, a Universal 35mm camera from 1915, was used as a prop in the movie ...

The Last Man on Earth is a silent comedy starring Earle Foxe and directed by JG Blystone. Foxe plays Elmer, the one adult male in the future year of 1954 who hasn't been snuffed out by a disease ...

With the feel of a straight-to-home entertainment movie cranked out on the cheap, ‘The Silent Hour’ doesn’t really have too much that makes it stand out, and too little to recommend it ...

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

In fact, the origins of filmmaking were crude, unrefined and dangerous for many who participated in such avant-garde movies like DW Grffith’s 1916 epic silent film Intolerance.

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 ...

For the business, these are valuable studio assets — to use one example, the MGM Library (roughly 4,000 film titles including the James Bond franchise and 17,000 series episodes) is worth an ...