Westword: Are you a silent film aficionado? Paul Buscarello: A budding one, maybe. I came to it because I went to the Silent Film Fest last year that Howie Moskowitz puts on at University of Colorado ...

If you try and think about some of the most intense movies of all time, the silent era probably isn't where you're going to go first. After all, the usual suspects intensity-wise came decades on from ...

Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the most hardened Swiftie might find themselves confused by a strange ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Team LAT wrapped up another trip to Toronto this week, seeing a lot of movies, talking to ...

A popular series that pairs new music with old silent movies, Sound for Silents is being recast this year to also showcase a veteran Minnesota musician who has been partially silenced. He happens to ...

“When we talk of this as a place of destruction, we turn these people into the other.” This was how Jay Weissberg, the artistic director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, held annually in ...

Is it me, or does popcorn always taste better when you are eating it in a very old, classic movie theater? Upstate New York has dozens of old movie houses that are either pushing 100 years old or have ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...