Keyword: Silent Cinema

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who...

The pattern-living Paul Fowler has his routines disrupted by the contact-seeking photographer Jane.

In the near future, two bandits try to survive in a voiceless world. Humans have lost their ability to audibly communicate. Paranormal phenomena...

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis,...

A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.

Racing Romance is a 1927 Action film. According to a brief article in the St. Petersburg, FL Evening Independent newspaper, the film was centered in...

A boy confesses his love to a girl — and turns to stone forever.

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

Time is not linear, it is an infinite circle that surrounds us. -Andrei Tarkovsky

A newly elected village parson is required to marry his predecessor's widow. However, he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his...

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

A man struggles with mental health and seeks help.

A Young Skater repeatedly fails to learn a new trick and begins to doubt his skills.

In 1970, Kuster Beaton, a former silent-film star, gives an interview looking back over his career. A journalist asks him about his legendary power :...

Charlie Chaplin's beloved Tramp returns.

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic...

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.