There was no one way all film was accompanied musically during the silent film era. There was a range. A…
Every once in a while, I’ll hear or be told about some new amazing silent film discovery being shown at…
I first heard about this CD project during the Arbuckle retrospective I co-curated for MoMA in 2006 with Ron Magliozzi,…
For a clown, a real honest-to-goodness Clown, the core of what they are doing is rooted in the honest, raw,…
Worries and Wobbles (1917) has what might appear to be three strikes against it on the surface: “Jimmy Aubrey comedy”,…
Two main elements in film programming, I’ve found, are knowing the films and knowing where prints of them are. The…
Rotating bookcases, a Creeping Hands, Disappearing Bodies, a Madman on the Loose, Suspicious Family Members After the Family Jewels —…
Lubitsch-Directed “Rosita” (1923) Is On Screens Again After 95 Years and Worth Seeing I was on the fence about attending…
Or…What to Expect When You’re Expecting Something from a Hitchcock Movie I accompanied Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) on piano a couple…
Putting Humpty Together Again, Thanks to the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress It isn’t often that…