A Bay Area attorney who researched silent films as a hobby, John Bengtson spent decades tracking down the exact streets where ...

The Library of Congress revealed the films selected for the honor, noting that each is being preserved due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage.

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 ...

Every year movies are being released more and more; however, no one ever stops to think how films first began. The first experiments of film appeared in the late 19th century about 1874, with a focus ...

Designer Kathryn M. Ireland says, “I think a house ought to have a soul. That takes respecting the house itself, as well as what people before me did to it.” ...

Local historian and author Betsy J. Green will give a talk titled “Silents on the Islands,” 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 as part of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s (SBMM) Distinguished Speaker Series ...

WHEN WAS THE last time you saw a movie in a theater? Today, many stream movies from anywhere but theaters. No surprise, given society’s embrace of the convenience and selectivity of the internet. So ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle and national history. One of the boldest examples is The ...

On Nov. 13, the Orinda Theatre hosted the annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival — a festival exploring the archives from the silent movie era of the 1920s that have since awaited their time to ...

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) has announced the 2025–26 lineup for its popular Silent Movie Mondays series at The Paramount Theatre. Four landmark films from the silent era will return to the big screen ...

The appeal of silent films isn’t just how one watches movies but instead experiences the score. “There’s a community of people who are interested in silent film, but there’s also still an untapped, ...