Silent film accompanist and accomplished jazz pianist David Arner was at last Friday’s (Feb 6) showing of The Kid Brother. He came over and said ‘hi’ after the show and we chatted for a while. I couldn’t place where I’d… Read More »other accompanists: David Arner, Bernie Anderson
The Silent Clowns Film Series now has a presence on FaceBook and on MySpace! If you spend online time at either of these sites, join the FB group or become a MySpace friend. Click on the images below to go… Read More »Silent Clowns on Facebook and MySpace
For those of you who aren’t on our snail-mail list, here’s a peek at what you miss by just receiving our eBlasts. Our new brochure, designed masterfully by Marlene Weisman-Abadi, arrived from the printers a couple days ago. Seen at… Read More »Silent Clowns winter/spring season announced
Well, I’d only seen the American-release version of Variety, up till Weds (Feb 4). I’d played for it a number of times, and was glad I finally got to see the film with its original first 2 reels and storyline… Read More »Variety, Loves of Carmen, Kid Brother & The Wanderer
Just uploaded this video to YouTube. This was aired in January 2000, during MoMA’s six-month silent film series coinciding with their museum-wide “MoMA 2000” gallery exhibitions. I was playing for 5-8 shows a week. If my years at NYU as… Read More »Ben Model on NY1 – January 2000
This week MoMA is presented a program in tribute to Stuart Oderman, who this year celebrates his 50th year as a silent film accompanist. On Thursday, Jan 29 at 6pm, Stuart accompanied Broken Blossoms, which was the first film he… Read More »Stuart Oderman tribute at MoMA – Jan 29
Played a matinee of L’Inconnu – or The Unknown – at MoMA today. The print came from GEH and has French titles which looked like they were made in the ’40s(?), white helvetica-ish against black. There is a print with… Read More »Lon Chaney in “The Unknown”
01.06.09 Silent but Deadly: An Evening of Comedy ShortsOriginally uploaded by PopRally Here’s a photo of me at the Steinway in Titus I accompanying one of the slapstick silents during “Silent But Deadly”, from the event’s page on Flickr.com
Last night’s showing of Don Q, Son of Zorro went quite well. We had a nice crowd, and a few kids too. Audience members enjoyed spotting Donald Crisp, the original/first Charlie Chan, Warner Oland, and Jean Hersholt (seen a couple… Read More »Don Q, Son of Zorro; changes at AMMI