I'm a silent film fan who grew up with the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, so I've always been fascinated by cinema's ability to tell stories without words. But there's something ...

Silence can be a powerful tool in film; these 10 films make it the default. Nowadays, films can be a little too chatty. Cinemas are flooded with blockbusters in which all of the action and suspense is ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and director also explained to host Bill Maher why the audience is so important, saying, "The only way one can learn how to write a play is to sit ...

From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it has ...

Editor’s Note: Arash Azizi is a writer and a historian. He is the author of “What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom” (Oneworld, 2024). The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion on CNN.