Even here at Pordenone, not every film you watch can be a masterpiece. So rest assured that tonight’s gala screening of A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926), with live benshi narration from…

Pordenone Silent Film Festival | 3>10 ottobre 2026

Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Cinema is an art & theory project on the politics of film curatorship and modes of migration of the cinematic dispositive in digital era, initiated in Zagreb in 2...

Dvadesete FILMSKE MUTACIJE: FESTIVAL NEVIDLJIVOG FILMA pozivaju vas na program U pohvalu benshija – preozvučavanja japanskog filma atrakcija, koji počinje u kinu Kinoteka 5. listopada 2026. jednim od ...

Flicker Alley and the Yanai Initiative proudly present The Art of the Benshi, a limited edition 4K UHD box set that celebrates Japan’s remarkable “film orators”

Serial dramas of the 1910s and 1920s offered important promotional opportunities for American fashion designers. Like contemporary runway shows, they brought the latest fashion trends to audiences eve...

School of the Arts Film and Media Studies and the Maison Française present a screening of Lumière Co. film footage - 1895–1905 as part of Cinema Across Continents: Rediscovering the Lumière Brothers ...

The stated reasons for Dylan's dismissal were vague and insufficient, and we can not accept his summary firing. The board can overturn its own decision, and we will not accept anything less.  

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1925 | NR | 95 min | Romance, Farce | DCP A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a gir

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. 1927. USA. Directed by F. W. Murnau. Screenplay by Carl Mayer, based on the story “The Trip to Tilsit” by Hermann Sudermann. With George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret ...

King Vidor's thrilling 1928 proletariat melodrama, featuring some of the most remarkable camerawork committed to celluloid, presented with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura.

1929 | NR | 101 min | Drama | DCP A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa. About Makia Matsumura: Makia Matsumura, a New York City–ba...

Silent Spring | George Award Winners: Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson, silent film’s ultimate glamour queen, started out with Mack Sennett and continued to make comedies throughout her career, including...

The major yet still inconspicuous career of Soviet director Boris Barnet (1902–1965), spanning nearly four decades from the late silent era to the Khrushchev Thaw, stands as a miraculously paradoxical...

Professional benshi silent film narrator Ichiro Kataoka and silent film piano accompanist Makia Matsumura performed live at Brigham Young University's International Cinema on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

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