Silent movies have long been paired with music but a new theater program brings a rock edge to the proceedings. This week, Maya Cinemas will host screenings of Silent Synced's version of the 1925 ...

A Bay Area attorney who researched silent films as a hobby, John Bengtson spent decades tracking down the exact streets where ...

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, ...

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 ...

Recently I took my two daughters to see a silent film at Film Forum here in New York. “Kid Boots” was a hit romantic comedy of 1926, starring the stage comic Eddie Cantor (roughly the Martin Short of ...

Last March, the Balboa Theatre in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter marked its 100th anniversary. But one of the theater’s slightly younger historic features will be the centerpiece of the new Silent Movie ...

And check out A Mariachi Valentine on the Martinez Patch calendar ...

Watch the silent film comedy 'Girl Shy' (1924) with live musical accompaniment on Valentine's Day at the Town Hall Theatre in ...

We've all heard the nostalgic tales. The glory days of cinema when movies were pure magic, untainted by modern commercialism. When every frame was art and every performance legendary. But here's the ...