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 ...

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 ...

Silent protagonists are a reminder that cinema is inherently a visual medium. When words are taken away, every expression, ...

Silent film music composer and performer Jeff Rapsis plays music to accompany "The Gold Rush" starring Charlie Chaplin, at the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport, Rhode Island. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) ...

Silent movies, trans movies, underground movies and a feral Jennifer Lawrence receive top billing this week. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival, one of the Bay Area's most renowned and fun movie ...

Ilana Kaplan’s new book Nora Ephron at the Movies talks about the idea of “comfort” 21 times. That makes sense. “Comfortable” describes the aesthetic of Ephron’s films: cable-knit sweaters, oversized ...

Accompanying a 1920s silent film might be akin to the improvisation of the Jazz Age. “It all comes out of my imagination,” organist Dennis Scott says. “My sheet music is the image on the screen. I ...

Pirjo Lonka and Elina Knihtilä shared the best actress honors for '100 Liters of Gold,' with Lee Hyo-Ye winning best actor for the Korean thriller 'The Loop.' By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

In the film, Lincoln agonizes over signing an execution warrant for a deserter. Historic Films Archive During his internship at a Long Island film archive, Dan Martin made a startling discovery: ...

Are you ready to return? We finally have a release date for the upcoming sequel film Return to Silent Hill — which means we’re just one step closer to getting back to the town that started it all for ...

The director’s selection in Tallinn underscores the rise of Mongolian cinema, aleady noted at Cannes and Venice.