Silent film

Guitarist and composer Gary Lucas breathes new life into a nearly century-old vampire film.We’ll learn about how farmers create a seasonal corn maze.And we’ll take a trip to the weight room.

On Saturday, November 5, The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, with guest Conductor Christine Howlett, will perform Richard Einhorn’s “VOICES OF LIGHT” at The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, New York. Einhorn’s 1994 composition accompanies a screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 silent film classic “The Passion of Joan of Arc.”

In "Camera Man," film critic Dana Stevens pulls the lens out from Keaton’s life and work to look at concurrent developments in entertainment, journalism, law, technology, the political and social status of women, and the popular understanding of addiction.

From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis comes a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of Buster Keaton - a person who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern, and irresistible today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago.

Julien Duvivier is one of the most influential filmmakers of the Twentieth Century. He began working in the silent era in France. In the sound era, he continued to make significant films in Europe as well as high-budget, star-studded features in Hollywood.

To celebrate 103 years of movies on Spring Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Images Cinema will present An Evening with Charlie Chaplin, featuring…

"The Yellow Ticket" is a 1918 Polish-German film about a young Warsaw woman who hopes to attend medical school in Moscow, but experiences obstacles…

The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film "The Passion Of Joan Of Arc" at Trinity Church in Lenox on Saturday, May…

THE LOST WORLD. It’s a Hollywood silent movie that first startled audiences in 1925 and has since proven to be a cult favorite for those who savor fantasy…

The release last year of Martin Scorsese’s HUGO has brought to the forefront a long-deceased cinema pioneer. That would be Georges Méliès, who is played…