To many audience members, I was a spine-tingling way to start Halloween week. The eerie flicker of the 1925 silent film classic “Phantom of the Opera,” starring Lon Chaney, was projected onto a screen ...

The silent film era feels almost like a dream now, a time when everything was new, and nothing about movies was certain. Actors had to rely on their eyes, their hands, and the smallest lift of a smile ...

It’s been a moment since the world’s first real motion picture debuted, the 1895 black-and-white documentary “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon.” But in some minds silent films are as ...

A showing of the 1929 German silent film, directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Louise Brooks, at Miss Laura's Brothel Museum in collaboration with the Fort Smith Public Library.

Enamored of stars like Charlie Chaplin, he matched outdoor scenes from their movies to contemporary locales, creating a ...

The appeal of silent films isn’t just how one watches movies but instead experiences the score. “There’s a community of people who are interested in silent film, but there’s also still an untapped, ...

In 1926, when silent film star Bebe Daniels stayed at the Palm Beach Hotel. Movie theaters on the island were then becoming ...

Robert Eggers’ lushly gothic remake of “Nosferatu” is a loving homage to silent films, with its dramatic black-and-white scenes and overpowering sense of creeping dread. The eerie images of Count ...

Recently I took my two daughters to see a silent film at Film Forum here in New York. “Kid Boots” was a hit romantic comedy of 1926, starring the stage comic Eddie Cantor (roughly the Martin Short of ...

A piece of film history missing for more than 100 years and thought to be lost forever was found on Long Island in New York by an intern going through old boxes. The 16-millimeter film is believed to ...

Dom Bell, Marty Eggs, and Mel Funn in a car in Silent Movie - 20th Century Studios "Silent Movie" came next, and it was perhaps a little too oblique for mainstream audiences. It is, as the title ...