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In the summer of 1929 the Soviet film director went abroad to study cinema sound technology and to shoot several pictures together with foreign film...

When the slender, affable Chinese man took the podium in Harlem’s posh Golden Gate ballroom on a late autumn afternoon to denounce three recent lynchings in Mississippi, the audience’s FBI informant perked up.

San Francisco Silent Film Festival features iron-masked swashbuckling, flabbergasting twists, sexy farce, visual beauty, and strong women staring into the camera.

"When subways are built into neighborhoods that are sparsely populated to begin with, people start moving there, because rapid transit makes it easier for you to live and work in two separate places."

Naveen Kishore’s publishing address in Bhowanipore remains effortlessly international

Overlooked No More: Si-lan Chen, Whose Dances Encompassed Worlds As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race. Si-lan Chen in 1944. A socialist, she approached dance as a way to build international solidarity.Credit...Man Ray 2015 Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, ADAGP, Paris 2021; Telimage By Jennifer Wilson May 27, 2021, 2:55 p.m. ET This article is part of Overlook...