Contemporary silent films are touring around the New York area this summer as part of Modern Silent Shorts.

At the Modern Silent Shorts festival, moviegoers saw an old cinematic form brought back to life with seven brand-new films. At a one-night festival on an uninhabited island in the Hudson River, ...

Montclair Film will host the 2026 Modern Silent Shorts film series with a screening this weekend at The Bellevue. Here are ...

Enamored of stars like Charlie Chaplin, he matched outdoor scenes from their movies to contemporary locales, creating a visual record of vanished cityscapes. John Bengtson and Craig Barron, a visual ...

I learned to read through turning the pages of the New Yorker. It was the cartoons and ads that hooked me, but after I grew fascinated by silent films, I always looked in the back of the magazine for ...