Kicking off the second day of Ebertfest, the Virginia Theatre hosted a 9 a.m. showing of "The General" that positively resonated amongst viewers.

A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the ...

Bill McFarland, after discovering a family treasure, set out on a quest to preserve pieces of history that were left to his ...

The origins of avant-garde cinema date to the silent era, when artists in the 1920s like Man Ray, Fernand Léger, Marcel ...

Henry Roberts discovers a programme of classic films at HippFest, a movie celebration in the most unlikely of locations ...

The U.S. government once imprisoned a filmmaker for making a movie about the American Revolution since it depicted British ...

The beautiful and grotesque dreams of 1920s cinema remain just as powerful today - IN FOCUS: One of the most creatively ...

The battered wooden trunk had been in the family for a century -- shifted from attic to barn to garage as it was handed down ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. After being lost for more than a century, a vision of the future from 1897 has finally been unearthed—in a rather unexpected place. But while this ...

For over 20 years, Media Studies Lecturer Matthew Marshall has carved out a specific niche for himself in the Charlottesville film community. Equally adept at composing classical music as he is ...

Ichiro Kataoka reads narrations for a benshi performance. Benshi performers came to BYU's International Cinema as part of their "The Art of Benshi" tour. (Maya Taylor) Professional benshi silent film ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Silent Film Festival & Colloquium will have a Central European flair for its next event. The organization will present the 1926 Czech film “A May Tale” at 3 p.m. March ...