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Home » silent cinema

Tag: silent cinema

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Posted inFilm

Seeing with silence in avant-garde cinema

by Joshua Minsoo Kim May 12, 2022May 17, 2022

In the context of film, silence helps us appreciate the beauty and gift that is our sense of sight.

a white man in a black suit sits at an organ at a theater
Posted inFilm

The sweet sound of silents

by Kat Sachs May 12, 2022May 17, 2022

The film is the thing, the guiding force behind what they do. 

Posted inFilm

In the silent classic The Lighthouse Keepers, styles and emotions come crashing in like waves

by Ben Sachs July 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son.

Posted inFilm

Lois Weber laid down a marker for women in film

by J.R. Jones April 5, 2017August 18, 2021

But her progressive ideas left something to be desired.

Posted inFilm

Renée Baker on the challenges of scoring silent race films

by J.R. Jones September 2, 2016August 18, 2021

This fall the musician will provide live accompaniment to two mid-1920s pictures.

Posted inBlogs

Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut is pretty good when you turn the sound off

by Ben Sachs August 11, 2015August 18, 2021

Ryan Gosling could learn a lesson from Shaun the Sheep.

Posted inBlogs

An interview with silent-film accompanist David Drazin (part two)

by Ben Sachs February 19, 2014August 18, 2021

The longtime Chicago musician shares his knowledge of silent movie history and recalls some notable screenings he’s accompanied.

Posted inBlogs

Get your ticket for The Yellow Ticket

by Ben Sachs October 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Noting a screening of a rare 1918 silent film with a new live score

Posted inBlogs

See Yasujiro Ozu’s final silent film this Saturday

by Ben Sachs May 9, 2013August 19, 2021

An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre’s Second Saturday Silent Cinema series

Posted inBlogs

It’s Mary Pickford Week in Chicago

by Ben Sachs April 2, 2013August 19, 2021

Previewing two Mary Pickford movies playing in town this week, both of them introduced by film historian Christel Schmidt

Posted inBlogs

What’s new again: E.A. Dupont’s Variety

by Ben Sachs September 27, 2012August 19, 2021

Revisiting the forgotten German expressionist melodrama, once a staple of film studies courses

Posted inBlogs

Loss in The Crowd

by Ben Sachs September 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor’s silent classic

Posted inBlogs

Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival

by J.R. Jones July 16, 2012August 19, 2021

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature

Posted inBlogs

A passage to India

by J.R. Jones July 16, 2008August 19, 2021

The silent Indian drama A Throw of Dice screens at Grant Park Music Festival with live performance of a new orchestral score.

Posted inBlogs

Metropolis: (Finally Almost) The Director’s Cut

by J.R. Jones July 5, 2008August 19, 2021

Could this be the last restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis?

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