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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the ...

Gugusse et l'Automate In the brief silent film, Méliès portrays a magician named Gugusse who is showing off an “automaton” in what looks like a proto–robot manufacturing facility. The automaton is ...

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, ...

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 ...

The 35mm films are in place, and the University of Colorado Denver music students have their instruments ready. The Denver Silent Film Festival runs tomorrow through Sunday at the King Center on the ...

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 ...

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 ...