I found myself in a near-trance state, accompanying the 1912 Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (Queen Elizabeth) yesterday at…
I don’t know what possessed me to do this, but I’ve started a vlog. I may not have the patience…
In revisiting one of Chaplin’s best comedy shorts, one of my and many others’ favorites, I noticed something slightly unusual…
“It was Blanchette Rockefeller’s piano,” I was told when I was introduced to the instrument in 2003. This was at…
Getting to accompany silent films for MoMA’s Modern Matinees series Iris Barry’s History of Film gives me two ways to…
Wait…don’t I have a print of a March of Time episode about the opening of MoMA’s new building and film…
When I was in college, I played for a silent film course taught by MoMA’s Charles Silver. Charles loaned me…
This summer, I read two books, inspired by my being booked for a film series that will run at MoMA…
There is a notion that silent films should be shown at what is often referred to as “silent speed”, or…
When I was in graduate film school, different film directors or industry professionals would come to the school to screen…