In the context of film, silence helps us appreciate the beauty and gift that is our sense of sight.
Tag: silent cinema
The sweet sound of silents
The film is the thing, the guiding force behind what they do.
In the silent classic The Lighthouse Keepers, styles and emotions come crashing in like waves
Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son.
Lois Weber laid down a marker for women in film
But her progressive ideas left something to be desired.
Renée Baker on the challenges of scoring silent race films
This fall the musician will provide live accompaniment to two mid-1920s pictures.
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut is pretty good when you turn the sound off
Ryan Gosling could learn a lesson from Shaun the Sheep.
An interview with silent-film accompanist David Drazin (part two)
The longtime Chicago musician shares his knowledge of silent movie history and recalls some notable screenings he’s accompanied.
Get your ticket for The Yellow Ticket
Noting a screening of a rare 1918 silent film with a new live score
See Yasujiro Ozu’s final silent film this Saturday
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre’s Second Saturday Silent Cinema series
It’s Mary Pickford Week in Chicago
Previewing two Mary Pickford movies playing in town this week, both of them introduced by film historian Christel Schmidt
What’s new again: E.A. Dupont’s Variety
Revisiting the forgotten German expressionist melodrama, once a staple of film studies courses
Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival
John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature
A passage to India
The silent Indian drama A Throw of Dice screens at Grant Park Music Festival with live performance of a new orchestral score.
Metropolis: (Finally Almost) The Director’s Cut
Could this be the last restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis?