From silent classics to the age of the auteur, the best Russian films of the past 100 years are featuring at the BFI in Britain.

Alexander Goldstein composed music scores for two silent classics of world cinema:

It all makes sense when you learn that the film is also a bit of a dinosaur: "The Lost World," the 1925 silent classic.

In the 1980s, he scored a dozen silent classics for home video release by Paramount Pictures.

But we do have 'The Italian,' a 1914 silent classic that takes place in the slums of New York.

A musical hit from the stage, a silent classic, a Southern melodrama and a tale of espionage spice the television movie menu this week.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920 film), the silent classic.

Full marks to the BFI for keeping these silent classics coming.

Some theaters, like New York's Film Forum, have regular silent-movie series, but he said no other theater had a regular, weekly program of silent classics.

Charlie Chaplin is back this week with a sprinkling of silent classics and a beautiful modern fable.