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British Silent Film Festival: Classics including Nosferatu and Dracula are being screened in Gothic cathedrals. Cathedrals and churches, with their organs, crypts and gothic crannies, are now ...
The British Film Institute's Bryony Dixon says it is "incredibly rare" to recover a silent film, after Love, Life and Laughter was found in the Netherlands.
Alfred Hitchcock is one of cinema's greatest directors, but one of his earliest works is absolutely impossible to see in full.
Film historian Ben Model talks to IndieWire about his new book 'The Silent Film Universe' and his company Undercrank ...
The British Silent Film Festival is to take place in Cambridge for the first time. The 15th festival, being held from Thursday until Sunday, hopes to build upon the success of The Artist. Earlier ...
From 'Silent Witness' to BBC News Polska, the BBC is expanding its reach in CEE with BBC Player and new channels and services ...
1. Feature Film: 1917. This British silent film, with former Gaiety Girl Ruby Miller as Jo, is the first-ever adaptation of Little Women to the big screen. It is considered lost.
His rich musical vocabulary fully came into play when he was approached in the late 1970s by British film historian Kevin Brownlow, who had completed a restoration of the 1927 silent film ...
The shift from silent films to talkies was a huge deal for actors in the late 1920s, and many silent film stars found it difficult to “find their voice. ... despite being British.
Feb. 5 (UPI) --A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long Island.Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films ...
Letitia Wright ("Black Panther") and Tamara Lawrance ("Kindred") star "The Silent Twins," the disturbing tale of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons.
She enjoyed a lucrative silent film career, appearing in 57 British and German films between 1921 and 1932, capturing the hearts of audiences with her striking features.