On Nov. 13, the Orinda Theatre hosted the annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival — a festival exploring the archives from the silent movie era of the 1920s that have since awaited their time to ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the most hardened Swiftie might find themselves confused by a strange ...

Today, silent films still are celebrated and enjoyed at film festivals – even some festivals that only screen silent films. September 28 of this year was deemed National Silent Film Day. Companies ...

There is perhaps only one place in America that shows weekly silent movies on antique projectors using the original film prints, the light flickering across the screen as stories unfold. And that is ...

Dolores Costello in (1922–24[1]), full-length portrait, standing, right profile; wearing a short dancing costume. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia/public domain) Hollywood knew her as the “Goddess of the ...

Return to Silent Hill, the live-action film adaptation of Silent Hill 2, is being directed by Christophe Gans, who helmed the controversial 2006 Silent Hill movie, but it sounds like this new one will ...

Still from 1915 Charlie Chaplin comedy produced by Essanay, showing studio logo via Wikimedia Essanay Studios, via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. https://commons ...

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Silent Movie Mondays returns with an incredible lineup of 9 iconic silent films as well as special guest theatre organists from across the country. Join us at the historic Balboa Theatre and be ...

Kathryn Boyd and Laurence Criner star in "The Flying Ace" (1926), a crime melodrama with an all-Black cast. The film, which was produced at the time for Black audiences in segregated theaters, will be ...

The Silent Night, Deadly Night series hasn’t gone silent just yet, because yet another remake of this 1984 Christmas slasher film is opening in movie theaters this weekend. Written and directed by ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A couple of classic silent horror films — "Phantom of the Opera" and "Nosferatu"--screen at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco for Halloween. The real star of the events, however, is the ...