BEN MODEL'S 2013 SILENT FILM PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Campus, daytime conference screenings plus evening programs for the public (Culpeper VA)

BEN MODEL'S 2012 SILENT FILM PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

playing Ben Model's original orchestral scores.

Keaton's One Week, plus world premiere of new score for Felix the Cat in Pedigreedy; also organ
accompaniment to Arbuckle's Fatty's Plucky Pup and Langdon's Fiddlesticks - Egyptian Theatre, Boise ID

and Edie Adams - Museum of the Moving Image

A Grocery Clerk's Romance, Mabel's Married Life, Recreation, and Hash House Mashers.

including accompanying & narrating the new restoration of A Trip to the Moon, Roald Amundsen documentary, comedy shorts for kids, school programs. For festival website click here.

David Bianculli, Ben Model - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)

BEN MODEL'S 2011 SILENT FILM PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

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BEN MODEL'S 2010 SILENT FILM PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

If you are looking for available dates to book Ben Model for a show and the date you want is
already taken – e-mail him for a referral to one of his many silent film accompanist colleagues!

  • Jan 6 & 7 - D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms and True Heart Susie. Piano accompaniment (digital, Yamaha Modus)
  • (Jan 13, 14, 20 and 21 are silent films with sound tracks: Foolish Wives and The Chaplin Review)
  • Jan 27 & 28 - Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality and Sherlock, Jr. (Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment)

Sat, Jan 9 at 3:00 - Arts Council of Princeton - Princeton, NJ
"Comedy Cavalcade"
Annual program of comedy shorts introduced by Bruce Lawton, this time program is comprised entirely of silent comedies, with live piano accompaniment by Ben Model.  Model and the Arts Council of Princeton received a Meet The Composer grant for this performance.  Buster Keaton in The Goat, Charlie Chaplin in Pay Day, Laurel & Hardy in Should Married Men Walk Home? and Charley Chase in Limousine Love.  Piano accompaniment (Steinway B).

Sun, Jan 10 at 2:00 - Whitney Museum of American Art - New York, NY
series: "Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer"
Three-month retrospective of Guy's films includes daily screenings throughout the museum's hours.  Sunday afternoon screenins feature live accompaniment.  This program: Mixed Pets, A House Divided, Roads Lead Home, New Love and the Old, and The Girl in the Armchair. Piano accompaniment (digital, Yamaha GranTouch).

Sun, Jan 10 at 6:30 - Riverdale YM-YWHA - Riverdale/Bronx, NY
D.W. Griffith's "Way Down East"
Opening night film for the Riverdale Y's classic film series "Hollywood Starlets", introduced by NYU professor Jason Lucero. D.W. Griffith directed this tale of a naive country girl tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer. She then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.  Screening followed by talk-back with Lucero and Model. Piano accompaniment (Samick).

Sun, Jan 17 at 2:00 - Whitney Museum of American Art - New York, NY
series: "Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer"
Three-month retrospective of Guy's films includes daily screenings throughout the museum's hours.  Sunday afternoon screenins feature live accompaniment.  This program: nine actualities made in 1900, The Spring Fairy, and the 1918 feature The Great Adventure. Piano accompaniment (digital, Yamaha GranTouch).

Tues, Jan 26 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Erich von Stroheim's "The Wedding March"
Erich von Stroheim stars and directs in this late '20s Paramount über-production, co-starring Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts and Matthew Betz.  Presented in a 35mm print from the Library of Congress.  Also on the program is the recently preserved comedy short Number One starring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew. Theatre organ accompaniment (Miditzer).

Sat, Jan 30 at 2:00 - Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre - Culpeper, VA
Hal Roach comedy shorts program
Curated by Library of Congress Moving Image Curator Rob Stone, this program showcases the output of "the lot of fun"...the Hal Roach Studios throughout the silent era in archival 35mm prints.  Our Gang in Dogs of War, Will Rogers in Jus' Passin' Through (directed by Charley Chase), Charley Chase in Young Oldfield, Max Davidson in Don't Tell Everything, Harold Lloyd in Don't Shove, Snub Pollard in Speed to Spare, and a brand-spankin'-new print of Laurel & Hardy in Two Tars. Piano accompaniment (digital, Kurzweil).

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More than 70 shows already booked for the remainder of 2010!  Come back to this site for updates...


FEBRUARY

Weds & Thurs weekly at 1:30 - MoMA - NYC
series: "An Auteurist History of Film"
This 2-year film cycle curated by Charles Silver begins with nine straight months of silent films (Sept '09 - May '10), going chronoligically from the Lumieres to the tail end of the silent era.  Each program plays Weds and Thurs with accompaniment (piano or theatre organ) and on Fri unaccompanied.
silent film music lecture/demo/performance
Prof's Larry Burke and Larry Wallach teach a course on film music, and Ben Model is guest speaker/performer.  Class session will include screening of films by Griffith and Keaton.  Piano accompaniment.

Thurs, Feb 4 at 4:30 - MoMA - NYC
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The infamous German surrealist classic screens as part of MoMA's museum-wide Tim Burton exhibition in the series Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters.

Sat, Feb 13 at 7:00 - Baptist Temple - Brooklyn, NY (Boerum Hill area, near BAM)
"The Ten Commandments" (1923)
DeMille's silent version of this epic biblical tale.  The big difference is that the silent version is a contemporary story (1920's) with a flashback to the biblical story.  This program is the third in a series of four programs sponsored by the Brooklyn chapter of the AGO and held at this historic Brooklyn temple that is home to a magnificent Steere & Sons orchestral organ; click on the Baptist Temple link above to see photos of the organ and the church.

Sat, Feb 20 at 7:30 - Beloit International Film Festival - Beloit, WI
The Immigrant - The Adventurer - One Week - Cops
Performance of Ben Model's orchestral scores to these four classic shorts by Chaplin and Keaton by the Beloit-Janesville Symphony, as a special event of the annual Beloit International Film Festival.

Sun, Feb 21 at 2:00 - The Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
programming TBA
come back to see which great silent comedies get booked for this date...

Tues, Feb 23 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Harry Langdon in "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp"
Langdon's first feature after a successful string of shorts at Sennett co-stars a very young Joan Crawford. Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Fri, Feb 26 - Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY
"Museum Trip" presented by Making Books Sing
Physical comedy theater group Parallel Exit performs this adaptation of the children's book "The Museum Trip" by Barbara Lehman, with musical score by Ben Model.  The audience-interactive show is performed in the galleries with/for school groups.  This program is not open to the general public.

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MARCH

Weds & Thurs weekly at 1:30 - MoMA - NYC
series: "An Auteurist History of Film"
This 2-year film cycle curated by Charles Silver begins with nine straight months of silent films (Sept '09 - May '10), going chronoligically from the Lumieres to the tail end of the silent era.  Click here for complete details and schedule for the series.  Each program plays Weds and Thurs with accompaniment (piano or theatre organ) and on Fri unaccompanied. Mar 3 & 4 (Eisenstein) and Mar 24 & 25 (Sunrise) and Mar 31 (Street Angel) program are all prints with music tracks.

Thurs, Mar 4 at 12:30 - New York University - New York, NY
NYU Cinema Studies class - "Film History: Silent Cinema"
Professor Antonia Lant teaches this course each spring, and Ben Model attends to speak and accompany one session during the semester, playing the Baldwin Acrosonic the Cinema Studies department purchased when he began playing for silents while a film student in 1981.  Being screened today: early animated films, and works by woman directors.  This class is not open to the public.

Thur, Mar 4 - Flushing Town Hall - Queens, NY
"Museum Trip" presented by Making Books Sing
Physical comedy theater group Parallel Exit performs this adaptation of the children's book "The Museum Trip" by Barbara Lehman, with musical score composed by Ben Model; performed for this show by Wayne Barker.  The audience-interactive show is performed in the galleries with/for school groups.  This program is not open to the general public

Sat, Mar 6 at 7:00 - MoMA - NYC
Nosferatu
Murnau's iconic vampire picture, based rather loosely on the Stoker novel, classic screens as part of MoMA's museum-wide Tim Burton exhibition in the series Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters.

Sun, Mar 7 at 2:30 - Woodmere Public Library - Hewlett, NY (Long Island)
Buster Keaton in "The Cameraman"
Keaton's last great silent film, made for MGM in 1928 screens along with the classic short One Week.  Program is introduced by film historian Philip Harwood. Piano accompaniment.

Mon, Mar 8 at 4:30 - MoMA - NYC
Nosferatu
Couldn't make it to Saturday's show?  Sneak out of work early!  Murnau's iconic vampire picture, based rather loosely on the Stoker novel, classic screens as part of MoMA's museum-wide Tim Burton exhibition in the series Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters.

Tues, Mar 9 - Flushing Town Hall - Queens, NY
"Museum Trip" presented by Making Books Sing
Physical comedy theater group Parallel Exit performs this adaptation of the children's book "The Museum Trip" by Barbara Lehman, with musical score composed and performed by Ben Model.  The audience-interactive show is performed in the galleries with/for school groups.  This program is not open to the general public.

Sun, Mar 14 at 2:00 - The Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
Johnny Hines in "Conductor 1492"
Johnny Hines was a very popular clown who made many Harold Lloyd-type of comedy features in the 1920s, but is unjustly overlooked today. CONDUCTOR 1492 (’24) gives a good look at Hines’ ability with sight-gags, not to mention his engaging smile, and breezy personality. Opening for the feature is Glenn Tryon, another neglected clown, in the Hal Roach short WHOSE BABY ARE YOU? (’25). Piano accompaniment.

Tues, Mar 16 at 12:30 - The Town School - New York, NY
school assembly: silent film program
Every year the sixth graders at the Town School do a history unit on vaudeville and on silent film.  This assembly film/lecture/Q&A includes screening of D.W. Griffith's A Girl and Her Trust as well as Keaton's One Week. Piano accompaniment. Note: This program is not open to the general public.

Sun, Mar 21 at 2:00 - The Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
rare shorts from the Streamline Films collection
When the cinema began every film was a short subject, but as the industry grew so did the length of its films and shorts became a pre-feature special attraction. Comedy shorts were a standard part of the typical theatre bill, and this program provides a wide sampling of the art form. Our line-up is Ben Turpin in LOVE’S OUTCAST (‘21), UP ON THE FARM (‘25) with Lee Moran, Lupino Lane in MOVIELAND (‘26), WHAT! NO SPINACH? (‘26) with Harry Sweet, and Snub Pollard as THE OLD SEA DOG (’22). Piano accompaniment.

Tues, Mar 23 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Rene Clair's "The Italian Straw Hat"
Director René Clair skilful transposition of Eugène Labiche’s play from the 1850s to the 1890s provides an outrageously funny satire on bourgeois attitudes. Although the plot is simple, the film is replete with content, showing the director’s mastery of both visual comedy and film photography. Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Thurs Mar 25 to Sat Mar 27 - Cinefest 2010 - Syracuse, NY
30th Annual Syracuse Cinefest
This annual classic film cinephile convention marks its 30th anniversary this year.  Four solid days and nights of films from the 'teens, 'twenties, 'thirties and 'forties.  Silent films accompanied by Ben Model, Dr. Philip Carli and Makia Matsumura. Digital piano accompaniment on 3/25 and 3/26, and 3/27 films will be presented at the Capitol Theatre in Rome, NY with accomp for all silents on the Capitol's original Möller theatre pipe organ.

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APRIL

Weds & Thurs weekly at 1:30 - MoMA - NYC
series: "An Auteurist History of Film"
This 2-year film cycle curated by Charles Silver begins with nine straight months of silent films (Sept '09 - May '10), going chronoligically from the Lumieres to the tail end of the silent era.  Click here for complete details and schedule for the series.  Each program plays Weds and Thurs with accompaniment (piano or theatre organ) and on Fri unaccompanied.
Fri, Apr 9 at 8:30am - Cathedral School - New York, NY
K-4 assembly: silent film
Presentation of one short silent film with live piano accompaniment and explanation of silent cinema to 5-to-8 year olds at this school in NYC's Upper West Side. Piano accompaniment. Note: this program is not open to the public.

Fri, Apr 9 at 1:00 - Stephen Gaynor School - New York, NY
6th & 7th grade assembly: silent film
Presentation of one short silent film with live piano accompaniment and explanation of silent cinema to middle-school studnts at this school in NYC's Upper West Side. Piano accompaniment. Note: this program is not open to the public.

Sat, Apr 10 at 7:00 - Baptist Temple - Brooklyn, NY (Boerum Hill area, near BAM)
Douglas Fairbanks in "The Mark of Zorro"
DeDouglas Fairbanks stars as "that carver of Z's" in the film that launched the Zorro legend and franchise.  "Have you seen this one?" This program is the fourth in a series of four programs sponsored by the Brooklyn chapter of the AGO and held at this historic Brooklyn temple that is home to a magnificent Steere & Sons orchestral organ; click on the Baptist Temple link above to see photos of the organ and the church.

Sun, Apr 11 at 2:00 - The Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
Films from the F.I.L.M. Archives Collection
Throughout the silent era there were numerous "fun factories" that specialized in producing and distributing silent comedy one and two-reelers. From giants like Sennett and Christie to micro units like Tenneck – they all worked overtime to supply a steady stream of movie laughter. Our cross-section of producers include Harry Cohn (Sid Smith in A DOG-GONE MIX-UP, ’21,), Larry Darmour (Mickey McGuire in MICKEY’S CIRCUS, '27), William Fox (Arthur Housman in JUST A HUSBAND, '27), Louis, Adolph, & Max Weiss (Ben Turpin in THE EYES HAVE IT, '28), and Hal Roach (Snub Pollard in STRICTLY MODERN, '22, and Stan Laurel in COLLARS AND CUFFS, '23). Piano accompaniment.

Tues, Apr 13 at 2:30 - Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium - New York, NY
Mary Pickford in "Hulda From Holland" (1916) - U.S. premiere of new restoration
The popular series, Meet the Music Makers, curated by Joseph Yranski, returns to the NYPL for an eighth round of programs.  On four Tuesday afternoons in April a different (Mary Pickford) silent film will be screened, each show featuring a different accompanist. The United States premiere of HULDA FROM HOLLAND, the formerly “lost” Mary Pickford feature-film, was filmed in Bayside, Old Saybrook, and Manhattan was restored by the National Film Archives, Prague, Czech Republic. It is the tale of a family of orphans brought to the United States by a kindly uncle, but due to a traffic accident he is unable to meet them at the Battery. Piano accompaniment.

Fri, Apr 16 at 8:00pm and
Sat Apr 17 at 9:00am - Yiddish Book Center - Amherst, MA
"Letting Jews Be Jews" - special film weekend
The Yiddish Book Center hosts this three-day seminar of film screenings and discussions, led by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times and NPR Morning Edition film critic.  Max Davidson comedies will be screened on Fri eve and on Sat morning, presented by Bruce Lawton and Ben Model. Piano accompaniment.

Sat Apr 17 at 7:00 - Wesleyan University - Middletown, CT
"WesFest" silent film screening
The Wesleyan University hosts this three-day weekend of events each year for high school seniors who will be attending in the fall, and their families, to tour the campus and attend events.  Wesleyan has a renowned Film Studies department, headed by Jeanine Basinger, and we have done a silent film there every years since 2006.  Film selection TBA, or you can e-mail to find out.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Sat Apr 24 at 2:00 - Great Neck Library - Great Neck, NY (Long Island)
Great Neck Reads: "Ragtime"
This program of early film is presented as part of the "Great Neck Reads" series of events related to the book "Ragtime", by E.L. Doctorow.  Early actualities, films from the Nickelodeon era such as "The Great Train Robbery", shorts by D.W. Griffith, footage of Harry Houdini and other historical figures from the book, as well as Chaplin's "The Immigrant" will be screened.  Piano accompaniment, with historical film lecture.

Sun, Apr 25 at 2:00 - The Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
More films from the F.I.L.M. Archives Collection
Known as “The King of Comedy,” Mack Sennett was actually the Henry Ford of slapstick, as he was the first person to create a film studio devoted to turning out comedies on an assembly-line schedule. The main targets for the rough and rowdy Sennett crew were order, pomposity, and social standing. Having discovered most of the big names in the genre, today’s sampling highlights the year 1926 and stars such as Billy Bevan, Ralph Graves and Ben Turpin in the shorts WHISPERING WHISKERS, HUBBY’S QUIET LITTLE GAME, YANKEE DOODLE DUKE, WHEN A MAN’S A PRINCE, and ICE COLD COCOS. Piano accompaniment.

Tues, Apr 27 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Tom Mix in "The Great K&A Train Robbery"
Director René Clair skilful transposition of Eugène Labiche’s play from the 1850s to the 1890s provides an outrageously funny satire on bourgeois attitudes. Although the plot is simple, the film is replete with content, showing the director’s mastery of both visual comedy and film photography. Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

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MAY

Weds & Thurs weekly at 1:30 - MoMA - NYC
series: "An Auteurist History of Film"
This 2-year film cycle curated by Charles Silver begins with nine straight months of silent films (Sept '09 - May '10), going chronoligically from the Lumieres to the tail end of the silent era.  Click here for complete details and schedule for the series.  Each program plays Weds and Thurs with accompaniment (piano or theatre organ) and on Fri unaccompanied.

Fri, May 7 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
The Complete "METROPOLIS" – *opening night*
Fritz Lang's iconic techno-future film has recently had 25 minutes of lost footage restored to it, and will be given a one week run at the Cinema Arts Centre.  Opening night will feature a new musical score composed and performed by Ben Model; all other showings will have the recorded track (orig. 1927 score by Gottfried Huppertz). Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Sat, May 8 at 7:00 - Capitol Theatre - Rome, NY (upstate)
Buster Keaton in "Three Ages"
Buster Keaton's first feature-length comedy a structural spoof of Griffith's "Intolerance", screens in 35mm at this historic 1928 movie palace in upstate NY.  Also on the bill are Charley Chase in Mighty Like a Moose and Harry Langdon in Soldier Man. Accompaniment on the theatre's original 1928 3/10 Möller theatre pipe organ.

Weds, May 12 at 4:30 - MoMA - NYC
"Easy Street" and "Manhatta"
Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago. Also on the program is the 1936 installment of The March of Time, The March of the Movies, about the "new" film department.

Thurs, May 13 at 8:00 - MoMA - NYC
D.W. Griffith's "Way Down East"
Griffith's infamous ice floe barnstormer, starring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and (boo hiss) Lowell Sherman.  Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Fri, May 14 at 4:00 - MoMA - NYC
Erich von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives"
The Man you love to hate, in the film that won him this moniker.  Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Sat, May 15 at 5:00 - MoMA - NYC
Fritz Lang's "Siegfried"
Part one of Lang's "Die Nibelungen" two-part saga.  Screened as part of a series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Sun, May 16 at 5:30 - MoMA - NYC
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
Director Jean Epstein's cinematic telling of this Edgar Allan Poe story.  Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Mon, May 17 at 8:00 - MoMA - NYC
"Bluebottles" with Elsa Lanchester
Before she was the Bride of Frankenstein, Elsa Lanchester appeared in a number of British silents; this is one of them.  Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago.  Also on the program are Hans Richter's Rhythmus 21 and Rhythmus 23, and the Disney cartoon Three Little Pigs. Piano accompaniment.

Sat, May 22 at 2:00 - MoMA - NYC
"Easy Street" and "Manhatta"
Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago. Also on the program is the 1936 installment of The March of Time, The March of the Movies, about the "new" film department.

Sat, May 22 at 4:00 - MoMA - NYC
D.W. Griffith's "Way Down East"
Griffith's infamous ice floe barnstormer, starring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and (boo hiss) Lowell Sherman.  Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Sat, May 22 at 8:00 - MoMA - NYC
Erich von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives"
The Man you love to hate, in the film that won him this moniker.  Part of a screening series in May at MoMA entitled "Iris Barry: Re-view" saluting MoMA's first film curator and founder of the department 75 years ago.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Tues, May 25 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Mary Pickford in "Sparrows"
This Mary Pickford classic about an orphanage screens in 35mm. Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

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JUNE

Tues, June 8 at 2:30 - Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium - New York, NY
W.C. Fields in "So's Your Old Man"
TIn conjunction with the W.C. Fields exhibit entitled "The Peregrinations and Pettifoggery of W.C. Fields" at the library, film historian Steve Massa has progammed a Fields film series, which will includes this silent classic Fields film.  Piano accompaniment.

Tues, June 15 at 7:00 - Jonathan Law High School - Milford, CT
**WORLD PREMIERE**
Charlie Chaplin in "The Immigrant" -- new concert band score!
The Jonathan Law High School band's final concert of the school year includes their accompaniment of Charlie Chaplin's heartwarming classic short comedy, "The Immigrant" with a score composed and newly arranged for concert band by Ben Model.  During the concert, AP History students will give presentations on Keaton and the silent film era.  This is the third year that JLHS has done a presentation like this.

series: "An Auteurist History of Film"
In case you were unavailable to attend any of this series' silent film screenings Sept '09 - May '10 (like, because they were all at 1:30 on a weekday), nearly all the silents are being repeated in June!  This MoMA film series is 2-year film cycle curated by Charles Silver.  Click here to get full show details and to see the entire series (some of the films being shown have music tracks and are therefore not listed here), and links to Charles' film notes posted online at MoMA's "Inside/Out" blog. There will be live musical accompaniment by Ben Model at all shows, except where noted (prints with tracks), on piano and then switching to Miditzer theatre organ with the Keaton Sherlock/Hospitality show.

Tues, June 29 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Harold Lloyd in "Grandma's Boy"
Lloyd's first feature film, and one of his best, set the model for his remaining features, pitting a milquetoast against a bully and, after falling in love with a pretty girl, undergoes a transformation and wins the day.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

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JULY

Thurs July 15 to Sun July 18 - Arlington Spectrum - Arlington VA (near Washington DC)
Seventh Annual "Slapsticon" convention
Four straight days morning noon and (late) night of classic and rare comedy shorts and features from the '10s, '20s, '30s and '40s.  This year's big event is the screening of the recently-discovered lost Chaplin Keystone film "A Thief Catcher" (1914).  Piano accompaniment.

Thurs, July 21 at 7:00 - Bard Summerscape - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Pandora's Box"
This year's Summerscape film series showcases director G.W. Pabst, and this iconic pairing of Pabst and Louise Brooks is one of the highlights.  Piano accompaniment.

Sun, July 25 at 9:00 - Mohonk Mountain House - New Paltz, NY
Mohonk Summer Festival of the Arts: silent comedy shorts
Bruce Lawton and Ben Model return to Mohonk with a program of sure-fire classic comedy shorts in this historic, rustic resort, as part of Mohonk's annual Festival of the Arts. Harold Lloyd in Ask Father, Buster Keaton in The Haunted House, novelty short Character Studies, Walter Lantz cartoon Jungle Belles, and Charley Chase in The Caretaker's Daughter. Piano accompaniment.

Tues, July 27 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Chaplin Mutuals in 35mm!
Nice, older 35mm prints (van Buren edition) of The Fireman, The Floorwalker, One A.M. and Behind the Screen; this show kicks of the C.A.C.'s run of teh new MK2 prints of Chaplin films that are touring the USA.  Piano accompaniment.

Thurs, July 28 at 7:00 - Bard Summerscape - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Berlin: Symphony of a Great City" and "Opus I-IV"
This year's Summerscape film series showcases director G.W. Pabst; this program features works by Walter Ruttmann. Piano accompaniment.

Sat, July 31 at 8:00 - Music and More - New Marlborough, MA (Berkshires)
Harold Lloyd in "Grandma's Boy"
This annual music festival, held in a historic meeting house in the Berkshires, kicks off with the screening of Harold Lloyd's first feature, one of his own personal favorites.  Also on tap are the shorts "Ask Father" and "Number, Please?".  All films will be presented on 16mm film (not video).  Piano accompaniment.

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AUGUST

Weds, Aug 4 at 6:50 and 9:15 - BAMcinematek - Brooklyn, NY
Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)"
Forget about Shrek in 3D...come see Schreck in 2D!!.  35mm print of the original screen adaptation of Stoker's "Dracula" will be shown twice to kick of BAMcinematek's Aug-Sept vampire film festival "Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Vampires Live Forever".  Piano accompaniment.

Sun, Aug 15 at 7:00 - Hamilton Theatre - Hamilton, NY (near Colgate College)
Buster Keaton in "The Cameraman"
Keaton's last great silent film, made for the MGM factory in 1928, screened in 35mm. Plus a surprise Keaton short!  Don't miss this fun, annual show at a historic theater. Piano accompaniment.

Sat, Aug 21 at 6:00 - Village Picture Shows - Manchester, VT
silent comedy shorts program
Still Chaplin: "The Cure"  - Keaton: "The Goat"  - Chase: "His Wooden Wedding" - L&H: "Big Business".  Program presented, as we do every August at the VPS, in glorious 16mm.  Piano accompaniment.

Thurs, Aug 26 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Louise Brooks in "Diary of a Lost Girl"
Pabst and Brooks team up again..  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

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SEPTEMBER

Thurs, Sept 2 to Sun, Sept 5 - Verdensteatret Kino - Tromsø, Norway
Louise 5th Annual "Silent Film Days" ("Stumfilmdager") festival
Ben accompanies short silents for school groups at the theater, and onsite at senior residences, as well as playing for three programs of rarities during the festival: "Cruel and Unusual Comedy" shorts from MoMA, "The Story of a Boy" (1919, Norway), and a program of advertising and travel films preserved by the National Library of Norway.  Festival website is here.

Weds, Sept 15 at 12:30 - City College of NY - New York, NY
guest speaker/performer at CCNY film music course
Ben Model will be a guest speaker at this session of a film music course taught through the music department by Maya Hartman.  Ben will discuss the history and practice of silent film accompaniment, and accompany a couple of short films.

Sat, Sept 18 at 7:30 - Caldwell Fine Arts, College of Idaho - Caldwell, ID
silent comedy program: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charley Chase - Boise Philharmonic orchestra
The Boise Philharmonic "Pit Orchestra" accompanies a silent film in a new orchestral score composed and compiled by Ben Model, and Ben will accompany two films on the Jewett Auditorium's 3/38 Cassavant pipe organ.

Sun, Sept 19 at 7:30 - Egyptian Theatre - Boise, ID
silent comedy program: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charley Chase - Boise Philharmonic orchestra
The Boise Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra accompanies a silent film in a new orchestral score composed and compiled by Ben Model, and Ben will accompany two films on the theater's recently restored Robert Morton theatre pipe organ in this historic, restored 1927 Egytian-style movie palace.

Weds, Sept 22 at 7:00 - Jacob Burns Film Center - Pleasantville, NY
the new complete "Metropolis"
The Burns Film Center's one-week run of the new complete "Metropolis" includes this showing with live theatre organ accompaniment.

Thurs, Sept 23 - Sun, Sept 26 - Lions Lincoln Theatre - Massillon, OH
The 20th Annual Fall Cinesation
The Fall Cinesation celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with four spectacular days of morning to night programming of rare films from the 'teens to the 'forties, including several rare silents.  Cinesation website to see film listings is here.  Piano and Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Mon, Sept 27 at 7:30 - MoMA - NYC
Cecil B. DeMille's "The Kindling" and "The Golden Chance", introduced by Scott Eyman
Griffith's Two of DeMille's earliest features are screened at this program introduced by author and historian Scott Eyman, who will also discuss his new book, "Empire of Dreams: the Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille". Piano accompaniment.

Tues, Sept 28 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
E.A. DuPont's "Variety", starring Emil Jannings
If you've only seen the Paramount U.S. release that runs about 65 mins, you gotta come see the complete version, screened here in a restored 35mm print from the Library of Congress with the first two reels and original intertitle text put back in.  Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.

Thurs, Sept 30 at 7:30 - Paramount Theatre - Kankakee, IL
Chaplin's "The Immigrant" and Keaton's "One Week" - Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra
The Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra performs Ben Model's orchestral scores for these two classic silent comedy shorts.  This gala event is a fundraiser to help the KVSO bring fine live music to the Kankakee area, and will be held in a historic movie theater.  Event website is here, KVSO website is here.

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OCTOBER

Saturday, Oct 2 at 2:30 - Bruno Walter Auditorium/Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
Bebe Daniels in "Feel My Pulse" - The Silent Clowns Film Series - piano accompaniment.

Weds, Oct 6 through Thurs, Oct 14 - Museum of Modern Art - New York, NY
series: "More Cruel and Unusual Comedy" - piano accompaniment; also co-curator.
click here for MoMA's website page for the series or here for the Cruel and Unusual Comedy website to see film program descriptions and titles.

• Weds Oct 6 at 8:00 – "Class War: How the Other Half Lives"
• Thurs Oct 7 at 4:30 – "Unsocialized Medicine: The Health Care Crisis"
• Thurs Oct 7 at 8:00 – "Altered States: Under the Influence"
• Fri, Oct 8 at 4:30 – "Gender Benders: Masculine Women/Feminine Men"
• Fri Oct 8 at 8:00 – "The Surreal Life: Dallying with the Absurd" – speaker: Eileen Bowser, MoMA Dept of Film, senior curator emerita
• Sat Oct 9 at 2:00 – "The Surreal Life: Dallying with the Absurd"
• Sat Oct 9 at 8:00 – "Gender Benders: Masculine Women/Feminine Men"
• Sun Oct 10 at 2:00 – "Class War: How the Other Half Lives"
• Thurs Oct 14 at 4:30 – "Altered States: Under the Influence"
• Thurs Oct 14 at 8:00 – "Unsocialized Medicine: The Health Care Crisis"

Tues, Oct 19 at 7pm - Harding University - Searcy, AK
Buster Keaton in "Cops" - concert band score, performed by the Harding Wind Ensemble in the University's Administration Auditorium.

Thurs, Oct 21 at 2:00 - Lee Strasberg Institute - New York, NY
DW Griffith's "Broken Blossoms" - piano accompaniment, plus lecture - presented at the Lee Strasberg Institute's Film Track; program not open to public.

Tues, Oct 26 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Conrad Veidt in "The Man Who Laughs" - Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.  Part of the C.A.C.'s ongoing monthly "Anything But Silent" film series.

Oct 28-30 - University of Ohio, Zanesville
"Charlie in the Heartland" - international Charlie Chaplin conference - Rodgers theatre organ accompaniment for Chaplin short film screenings on Oct 28 and Oct 30. Also presenting lecture: "Undercranking -- the Magic Behind the Slapstick".

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NOVEMBER

Mon, Nov 1 & Tues, Nov 2 at 7:30 - Bow Tie Theater - Greenwich, CT
Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator" - guest lecturer at the Greenwich Classic Film Series.

Thurs, Nov 4 at 4:30 - MoMA - New York, NY
Walt Disney "Laugh-O-Grams" - piano accompaniment.  Part of MoMA's "To Save and Project" preservation series.

Saturday, Nov 6 at 2:30 - Bruno Walter Auditorium/Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
Constance Talmadge in "The Duchess of Buffalo" - The Silent Clowns Film Series - piano accompaniment.

Sunday, Nov 7 at 3:00 - Tsuen Wan Town Hall - Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
Charlie Chaplin in "The Adventurer" - concert band score, performed by the Hong Kong Wind Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Thomas Verrier.

Tues, Nov 9 at 5:30 - Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY
Josef von Sternberg's "The Docks of New York" - piano accompaniment.  Screening and lecture is part of "Early Film to WWII" course taught by Elena Rossi-Snook; not open to the public.

Sat, Nov 13 at 8:00 - Wesleyan University - Middletown, CT
silent comedy shorts program (titles TBA) piano accompaniment.

Sun, Nov 14 at 3:00 - Eldridge Street Synagogue - New York, NY
Max Davidson comedy shorts program - piano accompaniment.

Tues, Nov 16 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Harold Lloyd in "Girl Shy" - Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.  Part of the C.A.C.'s ongoing monthly "Anything But Silent" film series.

Thurs, Nov 18 at 10:00am - Columbia University - New York, NY
silent film TBA - piano accompaniment, plus lecture.  Guest speaker/artist at "Silent Screen" course taught by Leon Falk.

Sat, Nov 20 at 7:30 - Willsboro High School - Willsboro, NY (near Lake Placid)
Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last" - piano accompaniment.  Plus silent film music workshop/lecture at 4:00.  Presented by the Champlain Valley Film Society in cooperation with Piano By Nature.

Sun, Nov 21 at 3:00 - Indian Lake Theater - Indian Lake, NY
Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last"  - piano accompaniment.

Thurs, Nov 18 to Mon, Nov 29 - MoMA - New York, NY
series: "Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares" - piano and organ accompaniment.  Series has more screenings than those listed below, including sound films and silents not accompanied by Ben Model.  Click here to see the full sched and title info at MoMA's website.  Series runs through March 2011.

• Fri, Nov 19 at 4:30 - Tragedy of the Street
• Mon, Nov 22 at 7:30 - From Morning to Midnight / Backstairs
• Fri, Nov 26 at 4:30 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Mystery of a Hairdresser's Shop
• Fri, Nov 26 at 7:30 - The Pleasure Garden
• Sun, Nov 28 at 2:30 - Variety
• Sun, Nov 28 at 5:30 - Different From the Others
• Mon, Nov 29 at 4:30 - The Pleasure Garden
• Mon, Nov 29 at 7:30 - Algol

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DECEMBER

Weds, Dec 1 to Mon Dec 20 – MoMA – New York, NY
series: "Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares" - piano and organ accompaniment.  Series has more screenings than those listed below, including sound films and silents not accompanied by Ben Model.  Click here to see the full sched and title info at MoMA's website.  Series runs through March 2011.

• Wed, Dec 1 at 7:30 - Variety
• Thur, Dec 2 at 4:30 - Algol
• Thur, Dec 2 at 7:30 - People on Sunday
• Fri, Dec 3 at 7:30 - Fraulein Else
• Sun, Nov 12 at 5:30 - Nosferatu
• Mon, Dec 13 at 4:30 - Fraulein Else
• Thur, Dec 16 at 4:00 - The Last Laugh
• Sat, Dec 18 at 4:00 - Nosferatu
• Sat Dec 18 at 7:30 - The Last Laugh
• Mon, Dec 20 at 7:00 - Waxworks

Fri, Dec 3 at 4:00 - MoMA - NYC
The Dziga Vertov's "Man With a Movie Camera" - part of the "Beyond the Camera" series of films at MoMA's "Free Teen Nights".  Open to high school students only. Click here for details.

Saturday, Dec 4 at 2:30 - Bruno Walter Auditorium/Silent Clowns Film Series - New York, NY
Marion Davies in "Show People" - The Silent Clowns Film Series - piano accompaniment.

Tues, Dec 7 at 7:30 - Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Buster Keaton in "Sherlock, Jr." (plus "The Goat") - Miditzer theatre organ accompaniment.  Part of the C.A.C.'s ongoing monthly "Anything But Silent" film series.

Tues, Dec 7 at 7:30 - Sturgeon Composite High School - Namao, Alberta, Canada
Buster Keaton in "Cops" - live accompaniment to silent film by the Sturgeon Composite High School band, band score composed and arranged by Ben Model.

Thurs, Dec 9 at 3:30 - Catholic University - Washington, DC
guest lecturer at media studies course - "Critical Approaches to Media: The Horror Film" taught by Prof. Jennifer Fleeger

Thurs, Dec 9 at 7:00 - Catholic University - Washington, DC
Lon Chaney in "The Penalty", plus Charley Bowers in "There It Is" - piano accompaniment

Fri, Dec 10 at 7:30 - Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater - Culpeper, VA
Erich von Stroheim's "The Merry Widow" - accompaniment on Walker digital theatre organ.

Sat, Dec 11 at 2:00 - Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater - Culpeper, VA
Hal Roach comedy shorts - accompaniment on Walker digital theatre organ.

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