Jackass is both a celebration of poor taste and a welcome elevation of the slapstick comedy tradition.

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even ...

While the main, multi-day S.F. Silent Film Festival has been pushed back from the spring to at least the fall because of the ...

Live” is having a 50th anniversary, and things are happening. Jason Reitman’s backstage dramedy “Saturday Night,” released ...

Fifty years before “SNL,” movies still had two years to wait before they could talk; Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush,” Buster Keaton’s “Go West” and Harold Lloyd’s “The ...

Since the Silent Era, comedies have been popular among audiences and popularized by some of the earliest film stars, such as Charlie Chaplin and Harold ... Cary Grant, Buster Keaton, and the ...

During the silent film era between the mid-1890s and the late 1920s, movies were almost always accompanied by live music. … ...