Lights, music, acting, directing — and perhaps most importantly, a good story — are all key elements in making a good silent film, since you can’t rely on dialogue or sound effects.

The largest silent film festival in all of North and South America combined opens Wednesday at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, a spot that ran “silents” in their heyday a century ago. The ...

Especially for folks who are interested in making silent films today who again often will do the titles with the frilly borders and use story tropes and costuming from the 1920s, which was present ...

Silent film music composer and performer Jeff Rapsis, at the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport, Rhode Island. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) On this particular evening, Rapsis was preparing to accompany the ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then John Woo‘s wordless action movie “Silent Night” is worth at least a thousand gunshots. Woo returns to Hollywood for the first time since 2003 to ...

What is old is new again when it comes to silent films, now making a comeback in metropolitan areas such as New York City. “The Wall Street Journal” notes that venues such as Film Forum ...

Francis Ford as the 16th president in “The Heart of Lincoln,” which he also directed. The newly discovered film had been among 7,000 silent films deemed lost by the Library of Congress.