During Hollywood’s early years, women commonly occupied positions of filmmaking power. In the silent era there were a dozen women directors and several dozen women screenwriters. A couple of women ...
On Nov. 13, the Orinda Theatre hosted the annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival — a festival exploring the archives from ...
Indian cinema has long depended on women’s presence yet resisted their power. Today, more women are claiming the director’s ...
Women In Film and Foresee Films are hosting a screening of the black-and-white silent short film About Mannequin, featuring live accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Set for Friday, ...
Dorset’s oldest cinema, The Rex Wareham, and South West Silents is hosting its third annual weekend of classic silent films.
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 ...
Film restorers Robert Harris and James Mockoski revive "The New Klondike," a forgotten 1926 Paramount gem scheduled to ...
Silent films are decidedly out of style, but the Denver Silent Film Festival hopes to rekindle the audience’s amazement with moving pictures by showing off classic films in the same context in which ...