With cinemas closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, people are looking more and more to other options for entertainment. Here's one suggestion that harkens back to a cinema tradition more than a ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--"Stop, Look and Listen," a 16mm silent film comedy originally released in the United States in January of 1926, has been discovered in February of 2020, by Japanese film ...

American comedy has strayed from the light of its ancestors. Gone are the days of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, when jokes and visual surprises flew at a mile a minute and ...

The largely forgotten work of unheralded but influential Vitagraph Studios is given new life thanks to the work of archivists and historians at the Library of Congress. While intrepid souls like film ...

(please note this transcription is autogenerated and may contain errors) JADE HINDMON You're listening to KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindman. Musician Ben Model has made a career creating and ...

In today’s film news roundup, Miramax has set up the comedy “Silent Retreat,” sci-fi romance “Clara” and “Cold Case Hammarskjold” get distribution and Olivia Wilde is honored for directing “Booksmart.

Few bands in San Diego inspire the kind of rabid devotion that the Silent Comedy enjoy. From their Prohibition-era wardrobes and Old West mustaches to lead singer/bassist J. John's manic ramblings, ...