The Chicago International Film Festival, which returns this weekend, debuted 60 years ago under the direction of 22-year-old independent filmmaker Michael Kutza with financial and in-kind support from ...

Fashion loves to reference Old Hollywood, but when we conjure those images, we usually think of the core classics: 1950s glitz and glam, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe archetypes. But cinematic ...

The last time Abel Gance’s nearly six-hour 1927 silent film “Napoleon” screened in New York City, it was in a truncated version — only four hours. In 1981, Francis Ford Coppola rented out Radio City ...

Dolores Costello in (1922–24[1]), full-length portrait, standing, right profile; wearing a short dancing costume. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia/public domain) Hollywood knew her as the “Goddess of the ...

Springfield-based theater organist Mark Gifford will be the guest performer Thursday alongside silent-film star Buster Keaton ...

As we rapidly absorb new information and often take our surroundings for granted in this modern age, we are long overdue for a day of reflection and slowing down. Silent Movie Day on Sept. 29 is the ...