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…
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 —…