John Bengtson, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 68, was an unassuming Californian lawyer acclaimed as “the Sherlock Holmes of film locations”; he dedicated his spare time to obsessive ...

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 ...

If you try and think about some of the most intense movies of all time, the silent era probably isn't where you're going to go first. After all, the usual suspects intensity-wise came decades on from ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

In the early years of silent cinema, broad melodrama was the order of the day. And what could be riper for melodramatic treatment than the exotic notion of polygamy in 19th-century America? In the ...

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 ...

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 ...