"Her Night of Romance," a silent romantic comedy film made in 1924 with Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman, will be showcased at 4 p.m. Sunday Feb. 15, at Norman Studios "Silent Film Sunday" at ...

Black-and-white homage to silent films of 1920's is generating Oscar buzz Hollywood's finest offerings often appear during the holiday season. This year, one of them is Michel Hazanavicius' "The ...

A Wash Line Romance is a 1928 silent short film directed by Jacques Rollens and released as "A Laemmle Novelty" under Universal Pictures. The film features innovative special effects, such as ...

The crown jewel of the collection is “Upstream,” a “lost” John Ford silent from 1927 about a romance between a Shakespearean actor and a girl from a knife-throwing act.

But these were silent films, ... Happily ever after was not required in a radical romantic comedy. Movies like Annie Hall (1977) focused on personal happiness, the needs of one's self, ...

It starts with a glow. It's a bright, silvery glow, washing over the audience as the old-school opening credits roll, and glowing in a way that movies rarely have done ...

Rare Silent Film With Black Cast Makes A Century-Late Debut : Code Switch A 1913 romantic comedy starring black actors is finally hitting the big screen, after decades in the Museum of Modern Art ...

Classic Hollywood: The motion picture academy will screen two MGM masterworks from 1928 that 'emphasize the unlimited communication of the human face.' ...

Miramax has set up the comedy “Silent Retreat” with “Isn’t It Romantic” director Todd Strauss-Schulson attached to helm from a script he co-wrote with Matt Fogel (“The Lego Movie 2”).

Most silent films are lost forever. The Chicago Film Society found one that wasn’t really lost, ... “It’s a wonderful, romantic story when people find these things.

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 ...

Like, for instance, silent movies aren’t very silent. Without microphones to capture sound, the actors, the crew and anybody in earshot can say anything they like as loudly as they like.