Ben Model’s
Silent Film Performance Schedule
Shows are usually posted 2-3 months in advance. Bookmark this page or sign up for my emails so you don’t miss a show. For booking info, send me an email.
Unless otherwise noted, all programs listed below for 2021 are live-streamed and live-accompanied, presented in my living room, accompanied on my 1918 Baldwin acoustic piano, and ticketed by the venue listed.
2021
March-April 2021
Weds afternoons at 1:00 Feb thru May 2021 – “Silent Storytelling” film studies course – lectures and live-accompanied films – NOTE: only for Wesleyan students and not open to the public –Wesleyan University – Middletown CT
Weekly, on Sundays at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party – live-streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Mon, Mar 1 at 8pm GMT (UK) – “The Celluloid Music Hall” program of shorts with Charlie Chaplin, Billie Ritchie, Stan Laurel and Lupino Lane – presented by the annual Slapstick Festival in their 2021 online “Laugh Out Loud” edition – stream and ticketing info is here.
Thurs, Mar 4 at 4pm GMT (UK) – Douglas MacLean in Bell Boy 13 (1923), plus Charley Chase in Dog Shy (1925) – presented by the annual Slapstick Festival in their 2021 online “Laugh Out Loud” edition – stream and ticketing info is here.
Thurs, Mar 11 at 8:00 ET – Charlie Chaplin in The Pawnshop, The Cure and The Adventurer – presented by the AFI Silver Theater (Silver Spring MD) – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here.
Mon, Mar 15 at 2:15pm EDT – education program live-streamed to 4th grade students at The Town School (New York NY) – this program is not open to the public
Tues, Mar 23 at 7:00pm EDT – Mabel Normand in The Extra Girl (1923) – presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here.
Weds, Mar 24 at 7:00pm MDT/9:00 EDT – Harold Lloyd in For Heaven’s Sake (1926) – presented by the Boise Philharmonic – free event! – to register for the event click here.
Tues, April 20 at 7:00pm EDT – William S. Hart in Tumbleweeds (1923) – presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here.
January-February 2021
Thurs, Jan 14 at 6:30 CT/7:30ET – Silent Comedy shorts program: Chaplin’s The Pawnshop (1916), Keaton’s The Goat (1921) and Charley Chase in Dog Shy (1925) – presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) – Houston TX – register free for the event here.
Tues, Jan 19 at 7:00pm ET – Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle (1925) – presented by the Amherst Cinema – Amherst NY – ticketing info is here
Thurs, Jan 21 at 6:30 CT/7:30ET – Silent Comedy shorts program – presented by the Ruth Keeler Memorial Library – North Salem NY – more info is here
Weds, Jan 27 at 7:00pm ET – Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped (1924) – presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here.
Weds, Feb 23 at 7:00pm ET – silent film TBD – presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here.
2020
November-December 2020
Sun Dec 6, 13, 20, 27 at 3:00pm EDT (weekly series) – The Silent Comedy Watch Party – live-streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Tues, Dec 15 at 7:00pm ET – Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle (1925) – live-accompanied livestream, presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Weds, Dec 16 at 8:00pm ET – Silent Film program – live-accompanied livestream, presented by the Milwaukee Cinema – NOTE: this event is for Milwaukee Cinema members only – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Mon, Nov 16 at 7:00pm ET – Buster Keaton program – live-accompanied livestream, presented by the Amherst Cinema – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Weds, Nov 18 at 7:00pm ET – Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro – live-accompanied livestream, presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
October 2020
Sun Oct 4, 11, 18, 25 at 3:00pm EDT (weekly series) – The Silent Comedy Watch Party – live-streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Weds Oct 7 at 7:30pm – Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) – live-accompanied livestream presented by Renew Cinemas – ticket info is here – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Tues, Oct 20 at 7:00 – “Knoxferatu” – online streaming edition of the annual Halloween-season silent film show held in Tennessee, hosted by Kelly Robinson – ticket and film info is here – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Weds, Oct 21 at 7:00 – Lon Chaney in The Penalty – live-accompanied livestream, presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – free-or-PWYW ticketing info is here – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Sat Oct 24 at 3pm – Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro (1920) – live-accompanied livestream presented by the AFI Silver Theater, Silver Spring MD – tix are free or pay-what-you-wish – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
September 2020
Sun Sept 6, 13, 20 & 27 at 3:00pm EDT (weekly series) – The Silent Comedy Watch Party – live-streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Weds Sept 9 at 7pm – Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) – live-accompanied livestream presented by the AFI Silver Theater, Silver Spring MD – tix are free or pay-what-you-wish – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Thur Sept 10 at 7pm –Ernst Lubitsch’s The Marriage Circle (1924) starring Adolphe Menjou – live-accompanied livestream presented by the historic Park Theater, Glens Falls NY (built in 1911) – tix for this “Silent Film Fundraiser” event are $15 and are available here – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
Weds, Sept 30 at 7:00 – Buster Keaton in Our Hospitality – live-accompanied livestream, presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – “virtual cinema” presentation – acoustic piano
June/July/August 2020
Sundays at 3:00pm EDT – The Silent Comedy Watch Party – live-streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – piano
Sat, Aug 8 at 7:30 EDT – Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923) – “virtual cinema” live-stream presented by the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, commemorating their 34th anniversary – piano
Weds, Aug 12 at 7:00 – Ronald Colman in Ernst Lubitsch’s Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) – “virtual cinema” live-stream presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – piano
Weds, July 22 at 7:00 – Harold Lloyd in Grandma’s Boy (1922) – “virtual cinema” live-stream presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – piano
Tues, June 23 at 7:00 – Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. – “virtual cinema” live-stream presented by the Cinema Arts Centre – piano
April/May 2020
On Sunday March 22, I launched a weekly live-streamed, live-accompanied silent film show called The Silent Comedy Watch Party. The show streams live on YouTube every Sunday at 3pm EDT and then remains up on YouTube for people to watch. For details about The Silent Comedy Watch Party as well as links to watch already-streamed episodes, visit the show page here.
If you’re interested in having me do a program like this for your theatre or venue during this time when venues are closed, please send me an email and we can cook something up.
March 2020
Wednesdays at 1:20, weekly (ends May 8) – “Silent Storytelling” – silent film course – open to Wesleyan students only, no auditing allowed – Wesleyan College of Film and Media Studies – instructor/piano
Sun Mar 1 at 2:00 – Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922) – Hewlett-Woodmere Library – Hewlett NY (Long Island) – piano
Sat Mar 6 at 9:00am – Hobart Bosworth in Behind the Door (1919), with Richard Wayne – Beatrice Community Players Theater – presented by the Gage County Classic Film Institute – Beatrice NE – piano
Sat Mar 6 at 1:30 – Roscoe Arbuckle in Leap Year (1919), with Maude Wayne – Beatrice Community Players Theater – presented by the Gage County Classic Film Institute – Beatrice NE – piano
The following shows were cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak and theaters closing:
Weds Mar 11 at 12:30 – guest accompanist/speaker at NYU Cinema Studies silent film course – not open to the public – New York NY – piano
Thurs Mar 12 at 10:00a – silent film presentation – The Town School, 4th grade students – New York NY – piano
Sat Mar 14 at 2:30 – Buster Keaton in Our Hospitality (1923) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – new digital restoration by Lobster Films – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts – New York NY – piano
Tues, Mar 17 at 7:30 – Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers – short films directed by Alice Guy- Blaché, Lois Weber, Cleo Madison and Nell Shipman – – presented for Women’s History Month – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Sun Mar 22 at 12 noon – Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923) – Alamo Drafthouse – Brooklyn NY – theatre organ
Tues Mar 24 at 1:20 – silent film program (email for film title) – St. Francis College, Founders Hall – Brooklyn NY – piano
Sun Mar 29 at 5:45 – Benjamin Chapin in The Lincoln Cycle, part 2 (ep. 5-7, 10) – AFI Silver Theatre – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
February 2020
Weds at 1:20, weekly (ends May 8) – “Silent Storytelling” – silent film course – open to Wesleyan students only, no auditing allowed – Wesleyan College of Film and Media Studies – instructor/piano
Sat Feb 8 at 2:30 – Harold Lloyd in Girl Shy (1924) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts – New York NY – piano
Tues Feb 11 at 2:55 – silent film program (email for details) – St. Francis College, Founders Hall – Brooklyn NY – piano
Thur Feb 13 at 6:00 – Idaho Film and Cinematic History, includes screening of Nell Shipman’s The Light On Lookout (1926) – Idaho State Museum – Boise ID – piano
Fri Feb 14 at 10:00 am and 12:30 pm – silent comedy shorts presentation to Boise area elementary school students (note: this is not open to the public) – Egyptian Theatre – Boise ID – theatre organ
Sat Feb 15 at 10:00 am – silent comedy shorts presentation – Touchmark at Meadow Lake Village (Senior Living) – Meridian ID – piano
Sat, Feb 15 at 8:00 – Charlie Chaplin in The Adventurer (1917) and Charley Chase in Dog Shy (1925), orchestral scores by Ben Model performed by Boise Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, plus Douglas MacLean in Bell Boy 13 (1923) accompanied by Ben Model – *WORLD PREMIERE* of new score for The Adventurer – Egyptian Theater – Boise ID – orchestral score / theatre organ
Tues Feb 18 – DVD release of The Douglas MacLean Collection from Undercrank Productions.
Tues, Feb 18 at 7:30 – The Scar of Shame – presented in honor of African-American History Month – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Sun Feb 23 at 2:00 – Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant, accompanied by wind ensemble score by Ben Model, performed by the Edmonton Winds – Allard Hall – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – wind ensemble
Sat Feb 29 Nov 15 at 2:00 – Buster Keaton in The Cameraman – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – piano
Shows have been been scheduled and will be posted during February. I still have dates available – and even if I don’t, I can refer you to one of my colleagues. Bookmark this page or sign up for emails to be notified of performances and DVD releases.
January 2020
Thurs, Jan 9 at 7:00 – Raoul Walsh’s The Loves of Carmen (1927) – new digital restoration by MoMA – MoMA – New York NY – piano
Sat Jan 11 at 2:30 – W.C. Fields in So’s Your Old Man (1926), with special guest speaker Dr. Harriet A. Fields – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts – New York NY – piano
Tues, Jan 14 at 7:30 – Douglas MacLean in Bell Boy 13 (1923) – new restoration by Undercrank Productions – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Thur, Jan 16 at 6:00 – Kovacs On Music – presented by the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, hosted by Seth Winner and Ben Model – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts – New York NY
Weds, Jan 22 at 4:30 – Raoul Walsh’s The Loves of Carmen (1927) – new digital restoration by MoMA – MoMA – New York NY – piano
Sat Jan 25 at 12 noon – Danny Joe’s Tree House , live taping of kids television show – Creative Alliance – Baltimore MD – piano
Previously, in 2019…
December 2019
Sun, Dec 1 at 7:00 – The Racket (1928) dir. by Lewis Milestone – new digital restoration by Academy Film Archive – Texas Theater – Dallas TX – piano
Tues, Dec 3 at 7:30 – Ernie Kovacs Centennial Retrospective – Alamo Drafthouse – Richardson TX – panelist
Weds, Dec 4 at 7:00 – John Cleese Receives The Ernie Kovacs Award – presented by Dallas Video Festival – The Texas Theater – Dallas TX – special guest attendee (as archivist of Kovacs collection)
Modern Matinees: Iris Barry’s History of Film – MoMA – NYC – M-F at 1:30 – piano/organ
Series runs October 21-Dec 31. Detailed film listings for the series can be found here.
- Weds, Dec 11 – Hamlet (1920) with Asta Nielsen
- Thurs, Dec 12 – Greed (1924) dir. by Erich von Stroheim
- Fri, Dec 13 – “Great Actresses of the Past (1911-1916)” program
- Mon, Dec 16 – Arsenal (1929), dir by Alexander Dovzhenko
- Tues, Dec 17 – Fragment of an Empire (1929)
- Thurs, Dec 19 – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- Mon, Dec 23 – Buster Keaton in The Navigator (1924)
- Tues, Dec 24 – Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925)
Weds, Dec 11 a 7:30 – René Clair’s Les Deux Timides – new restoration by San Francisco Silent Film Festival, presented on 35mm film with live intertitle translation – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Fri, Dec 20 at 2:00 – “Silent Movie Day” shorts program: Universal Animated Weekly #50 (1913), Through the Canadian Rockies (1915), China and the Chinese (1917), D.W. Griffith’s A Corner in Wheat (1909), Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle in The Knockout (1914), Al St. John in The Iron Mule (1925), Charley Chase in Leo McCarey’s The Uneasy Three (1925), Disney’s Newman’s Laugh-O-Grams and The Four Musicians of Bremen – MoMA – New York NY – piano
Sat Dec 21 at 2:30 – Dorothy Gish in Nell Gwyn (1928) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts – New York NY – piano
November 2019
- Fri Nov 1 – The Covered Wagon (1923) dir. By James Cruze
- Tues Nov 5 – Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925)
- Thurs Nov 7 – Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld (1928) starring George Bancroft
- Fri Nov 8 – Paul Leni’s The Cat and the Canary (1927)
- Mon Nov 11 – Paul Wegener in Der Golem (1920)
- Tues Nov 12 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) – plus “Iris Barry Talks” post-screening discussion, with Anne Morra and Larry Kardish
- Mon Nov 18 – Rene Clair’s The Crazy Ray (1923)
- Tues Nov 19 – Eric von Stroheim’s Greed (1924)
- Weds Nov 20 at 7:00pm – special presentation: Iris Talks: Celebrating Arthur Kleiner, MoMA’s First Silent Film Pianist
- Thurs Nov 21 – Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Fri Nov 22 – Pola Negri in Hotel Imperial (1927)
- Tues Nov 26 – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- Fri Nov 29 – Buster Keaton in The Navigator (1924)
Nov 2 at 1:00 – Buster Keaton in Our Hospitality – new 4K restoration by Cohen Media – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – organ
Nov 2 at 3:30 – Ernst Lubitsch’s Forbidden Paradise, with Pola Negri and Antonio Moreno – new 4K digital restoration by MoMA – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – organ
Nov 3 at 4:00 – Laurel & Hardy comedies: Duck Soup (new restoration by Lobster Films), Liberty, Wrong Again, and Two Tars – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – organ
Fri Nov 8 at 8:00 – Buster Keaton’s The General – Patchogue Theatre – Patchogue NY (Long Island) – organ
Sat Nov 9 at 2:30 – Colleen Moore in Irene – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts – New York NY – piano
Tues Nov 12 at 7:30 – Marion Davies in Beverly of Graustark – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Weds Nov 12 at 6:30 – Bed and Sofa – NYPL 16mm Film Night – Stephen A. Schwartzman Building (main branch) – New York NY – piano
Fri Nov 15 at 7:30 – Lillian Gish in The White Sister – new 35mm print – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Sun Nov 24 at 4:00 – Buster Keaton in Our Hospitality – Hamilton Theatre – Hamilton NY – piano
October 2019
Sun, Oct 6 at 2:30 & 6:30 – Danny Joe’s Tree House performance/taping – Black Cherry Puppet Theater – Baltimore MD – piano
Weds Oct 9 at 8:00 – Buster Keaton’s The General – Luhrs Performing Arts Center – Shippensburg PA – piano
Thurs Oct 10 at 9:30a & 11:00a – lecture/demo at film music course (not open to public), Shippensburg University – Shippensburg PA – piano
Sat Oct 12 at 2:30 – Mabel Normand in What Happened to Rosa – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts – New York NY – piano
Tues Oct 15 at 3:00 – Josef von Sternberg’s The Docks of New York – St. Francis College, Founders Hall – Brooklyn NY – piano
Sun Oct 27 at 1:00 – F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, plus Frankenstein (1910) – Edmond Town Hall – Newtown CT – piano
Tues Oct 29 at 7:30 – Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Iris Barry’s History of Film – MoMA – NYC – M-F at 1:30 – piano/organ
Series runs October 21-Dec 31. Detailed film listings for the series can be found here.
- Mon Oct 21 – Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1914)
- Tues Oct 22 – Program of Early Films 1895-1912
- Weds Oct 23 – William S. Hart in The Taking of Luke McVane (1915)
- Thurs Oct 24 – D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916)
- Weds Oct 30 – Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command (1927) starring Emil Jannings
- Thurs Oct 31 – Paul Wegener in Der Golem (1920)
September 2019
Sun, Sept 8 at 1:00 – Laurel & Hardy in Do Detectives Think?, Wrong Again and Big Business – DOROT – NOTE: *free admission* and space is limited…if you plan to attend please RSVP here – New York NY – piano
Tues, Sept 10 at 9:00am – Josef von Sternberg’s The Docks of New York – Wesleyan University film course (**not open to public or to students not enrolled in course) – Middletown CT – theatre organ
Sat, Sept 14 at 2:30 – Clara Bow in “It” (1927) plus Alice Howell in Cinderella Cinders (1920) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
Weds, Sept 18 7:30 – Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comedy shorts, hosted by Steve Massa – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Tues, Sept 24 at 11:15am – silent film program TBA – St. Francis College – Brooklyn NY – piano
Weds, Sept 25 at 7:00 – Buster Keaton in The Cameraman & King Vidor’s The Crowd – Center For Moving Image Arts, Bard College – Annandale-on-Hudson NY – piano
Sun, Sept 29 at 12 noon – Buster Keaton in Our Hospitality (1923) – Alamo Drafthouse – Brooklyn NY – theatre organ
August 2019
Fri August 9 at 11:30am – Helen’s Babies (1925) with Edward Everett Horton, Clara Bow and Baby Peggy – new digital restoration by the Library of Congress – Capitol Theatre‘s annual “Capitolfest” – Rome NY – theatre organ
Sun August 11 at 11:50am – Kentucky Pride (1925) directed by John Ford – – Capitol Theatre‘s annual “Capitolfest” – Rome NY – theatre organ
Tues August 13 at 7:00 – “Ernie Kovacs Centennial” – screening and panel event focusing on Kovacs’ video art – Anthology Film Archives – New York NY – panel moderator and programmer of video compilation
Weds August 14 at 7:30 – “Ernie Kovacs Centennial” – screening of Ernie Kovacs TV sketches – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – co-host of evening with Josh Mills, Ediad Productions
Fri August 16 at 7:30 – Marion Davies in Beverly of Graustark (1926) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Sat August 17 at 2:00 – Raymond Griffith in You’d Be Surprised (1926) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Tues August 20 at 7:30 – Mary Pickford in Rosita (1923), directed by Ernst Lubitsch – new 4K restoration by MoMA – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
July 2019
Thurs July 11 at 7:30 – F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927) with Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor – 35mm print – Ambler Theater (historic 1928 movie house) – Ambler PA – theatre organ
Fri July 12 at 7:30 – Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927) – Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts – State Theater (historic 1938 movie house) – State College PA – theatre organ
Tues July 23 at 7:30 – Colleen Moore in Little Orphant Annie (1918) – new 35mm restoration – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Mon July 29 at 8:00 – Buster Keaton comedy shorts TBD – Strand Theater (historic 1941 movie house) – Schroon Lake NY (Adirondacks) – piano
June 2019
Weds June 5 at 7:00 – Charlie Chaplin in The Rink, The Cure and The Adventurer – Park Theater (historic 1911 movie house) – Glens Falls NY – piano
Thurs June 6 at 6:00 – Charlie Chaplin in The Rink, The Cure and The Adventurer – DOROT – NOTE: *free admission* and space is limited…if you plan to attend please RSVP here – New York NY – piano
Sat, June 8 at 2:30 – Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy in Wrong Again, Big Business, Double Whoopee and Bacon Grabbers (all 1929) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
June 13-15 – 8th Annual Mostly Lost Film Identification Workshop – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater – Culpeper VA – piano
June 14 – Ben Alexander in Penrod and Sam (1923) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Tues June 25 at 7:30 – Ernst Lubitsch’s Forbidden Paradise – new digital restoration from MoMA – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
May 2019
Weds at 1:20, weekly (ends May 8) – “Silent Storytelling” – silent film course – open to Wesleyan students only, no auditing allowed – Wesleyan College of Film and Media Studies – instructor/piano
Sun May 5 at 1:00 – Silent Comedy Shorts: Chaplin’s One A.M, Buster Keaton in The Playhouse, Laurel & Hardy in Big Business – Bedford Playhouse – Bedford NY – piano
Fri May 10 at 7:30 – “An Evening With Changemaker Ernie Kovacs” – co-hosted by Josh Mills and Ben Model – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA
Sat May 10 at 2:00 – Harold Lloyd in Speedy (1928) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Sat May 11 at 7:30 – “An Evening With Edie Adams” – co-hosted by Josh Mills and Ben Model – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA
Weds May 15 at 7:30 – Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood – new digital restoration from Cohen Media – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Sat May 18 at 1:00 – Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr., plus Charlie Chaplin in The Rink – La Mirada Theater – La Mirada CA – piano
Weds May 22 at 10:30am – “The Ernie Kovacs Centennial: 1919-2019” – New Jersey State Museum Auditorium – Trenton NJ – M.C. of event
April 2019
Weds at 1:20, weekly – “Silent Storytelling” – silent film course – open to Wesleyan students only, no auditing allowed – Wesleyan College of Film and Media Studies – instructor/piano
Fri April 5 at 7:30 – Lois Weber’s Hypocrites (1914) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Sat April 6 at 7:30 – The Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club performs live reenactments of episodes of The Shadow and Fibber McGee and Molly – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Sun April 7 at 3:45 – “Mostly Lost” Workshop – AFI Silver Theatre – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
Mon April 8 at 12:30 – guest lecturer at NYU Cinema Studies “Curating Moving Images” course – discussing DVD production/distribution and crowdfunding – New York NY
Sat April 13 at 2:45 – Tom Mix in Outlaws of Red River (1926) and The Great K&A Train Robbery (1927) – 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival – Legion Theater Post 43 – Hollywood CA – theatre organ
Tues April 16 at 7:30 – Dorothy Daventport Reid’s The Red Kimona – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Thurs April 18 at 10:30a – guest accompanist at Columbia University Film Program silent film course – not open to the public – piano
Weds April 24 at 8:00 – Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1925) – Goldsmith Family Cinema, Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – theatre organ
Mon April 28 at 6:00 – silent film program TBA – St. Francis College – Brooklyn NY – piano
March 2019
Sat, March 2 at 1:30 – Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927) – Beatrice Community Players Theatre part of weekend of Harold Lloyd events in his hometown, sponsored by the Gage County Museum and Historical Society – Beatrice NE – piano
Tues March 5 – DVD release – The Alice Howell Collection – 2-disc set of 12 rare comedy shorts starring Alice Howell – from Undercrank Productions – available on Amazon, Shop TCM, DeepDiscount, et al.
Tues, March 5 at 4:30 – Kentucky Pride (1925) dir. by John Ford – new 4K restoration from 35mm nitrate – MoMA – New York NY – piano
Tues, March 5 at 6:30 – The Shamrock Handicap (1926) dir. by John Ford – new 4K restoration from 35mm nitrate– MoMA – New York NY – piano
Sat, March 9 at 12:00 noon – “Family Films” – DW Griffith’s The Lonedale Operator and Keaton’s One Week – MoMA – New York NY – piano
Sat, March 9 at 2:00 – Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad (1924) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
Sun, March 10 at 2:00 – Laurel & Hardy in Putting Pants on Philip, Wrong Again and Big Business – The Five & Dime – New York NY (lower Manhattan) – digital piano
Tues, March 18 at 4:30 – Tom Mix in Outlaws of Red River (1927) – new 4K restoration from 35mm nitrate– MoMA – New York NY – theatre organ
Tues, March 18 at 6:30 – While New York Sleeps (1920) – dir. by Charles Brabin – MoMA – New York NY – theatre organ
Weds, March 19 at 7:30 – Alice Howell comedies: In Dutch, Distilled Love, and A Convict’s Happy Bride – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Sat, March 23 at 1:00 – Fay Wray in Erich von Stroheim’s The Wedding March – AFI Silver Theatre – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
Sunday, March 24 at 2:00 – Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. – Hewlett-Woodmere Library – Hewlett NY (Long Island) – piano
Friday, March 29 at 7:00 – Laurel & Hardy in Putting Pants on Philip, Wrong Again and Big Business – The Weston Playhouse – Walker Barn – Weston VT – piano
February 2019
Weds at 1:20, weekly – “Silent Storytelling” – silent film course – open to Wesleyan students only, no auditing allowed – Wesleyan College of Film and Media Studies – instructor/piano
Fri, Feb 1 at 10:00a and 12:30p – Buster Keaton in One Week – education program for area 6th graders – Egyptian Theater – Boise ID – theatre organ
Sat, Feb 2 at 8:00 – Harold Lloyd in Grandma’s Boy, with score by Ben Model performed by Boise Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, plus Alice Howell in Neptune’s Naughty Daughter and Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker accompanied by Ben Model – Egyptian Theater – Boise ID – orchestral score / theatre organ
Thurs, Feb 7 at 8:00 – Lecture: Music and Silent Film – Modfest: Vassar College’s annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries – Vassar College Skinner Hall – piano
Sat, Feb 9 at 2:30 – Larry Semon comedies — The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYC – piano
Mon, Feb 11 at 3:00 – The Golem – St. Francis College – Brooklyn NY – piano
Tues, Feb 12 at 3:00 – silent comedy film program – The Osborn, senior living – Rye NY – piano
Sat, Feb 16 at 2:00 – F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise – North Castle Public Library – Armonk NY – piano
Tues, Feb 19 at 7:30 – Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr., plus The Goat – new 4K restorations from Cohen Media – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – theatre organ
Thurs, Feb 21 at 7:00 – Harold Lloyd in Safety Last – Ursinus College Bomberger Auditorium – Collegeville PA – pipe organ
Fri, Feb 22 at 11:00a – Film Music course, guest speaker – Ursinus College – Collegeville PA – lecturer/piano
Sat, Feb 23 at 6:00 – lecture: Undercranking: The Magic Behind the Slapstick – for attendees of annual Cinema Dinner – Kansas Silent Film Festival – Topeka KS – lecturer
Sat, Feb 23 at 8:00 – Marion Davies in When Knighthood Was In Flower – Kansas Silent Film Festival -– White Concert Hall, Washburn University – Topeka KS – pipe organ
January 2019
Fri, Jan 11 at 7:00 — Ernst Lubitsch’s Forbidden Paradise (1925) – new restoration – MoMA – NYC – theatre organ
Sat, Jan 12 at 2:30 – Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923) plus Charley Chase shorts. — The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYC – piano
Sun, Jan 13 at 1:30 – Marcel Perez comedies — Kobe, Japan — providing films (digitally) for screening
Weds, Jan 15 at 7:30 – Frank Borzage’s Seventh Heaven (1922) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – theatre organ
Thurs, Jan 17 at 9:30a – Alice Howell comedies – Slapstick Festival screening, hosted by Lucy Porter – Bristol UK — providing films (on DCP) for screening
Mon, Jan 21 at 6:30 – Orphan Films program – MoMA’s “To Save and Project” festival of film preservation – accompanying Three American Beauties (1906), Something Good – Negro Kiss (Selig Polyscope Co., 1898) and others – MoMA – NYC – piano
Weds, Jan 23 at 7:00 – The Lumberjack’s Bride/Koskenlaskijan Morsian (1931), dir. Erkki Karu – Scandinavia House – New York NY – piano
Thurs, Jan 24 at 11:00a – Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant (1917) – education program, not open to public – Museum of the Moving Image – Astoria NY – piano
Weds, Jan 30 at 1:20 – “Silent Storytelling” begins – teacher of silent film course – open to Wesleyan students only, no auditing allowed – Wednesdays through May – Wesleyan College of Film and Media Studies – instructor/piano
Shows from 2018:
January
Weds, Jan 3 at 1:30 – Orson Welles’ Too Much Johnson, with Joseph Cotten – MoMA – NYC – piano
Weds, Jan 17 at 7:30 – Victor Sjöstrom’s Terje Vigen (A Man There Was) – Tromsø International Film Festival – Arctic Cathedral – Tromsø, Norway – organ
Weds, Jan 24 at 7:30 – Louise Brooks and Wallace Beery in Beggars of Life (new restoration) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – theatre organ
Fri, Jan 26 at 7:30 – Frank Capra’s Submarine (1928) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Sun, Jan 28 at 2:30 – Lewis Mileston’s The Racket (1928) – new restoration – MoMA – NYC – piano
Weds, Jan 31 at 9:00 – Cecil B. DeMille’s Affairs of Anatol – Wesleyan University film course (not open to public or to students not enrolled in course) – Middletown CT – theatre organ
February
Sat, Feb 3 at 8:00 – Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera – Wesleyan University, Goldsmith Cinema – Middletown CT – theatre organ
Sat Feb 3 at 8:00 – Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant – orchestra score by Ben Model performed by the Northern Duchess Symphony Orchestra – Rhinebeck NY – orchestra
Weds, Feb 7 at 3:00 – silent film program TBD – The Osborn Senior Living Community – Rye NY – piano
Sat, Feb 10 at 2:30 – comedy shorts: A Jitney Elopement (Chaplin), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (Arbuckle), Ask Father (Lloyd), Neighbors (Keaton) — The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYC – piano
Fri, Feb 16 morning – silent comedy shorts, performances for school groups – Egyptian Theatre – Boise ID – theatre organ
Sat, Feb 17 at 8:00 – Keaton’s One Week plus Laurel & Hardy in Wrong Again (world premiere of score!) — Boise Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble – orchestral scores; plus Ben Model accompanying two shorts TBA on Robert Morton theatre pipe organ – Egyptian Theatre – Boise ID – orchestra & theatre organ
Tues, Feb 20 at 9:00 – William Wellman’s Wings – Wesleyan University film course (not open to public or to students not enrolled in course) – Middletown CT – theatre organ
Weds, Feb 21 at 7:30 – Fritz Lang’s Spies (new restoration) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – theatre organ
Tues, Feb 27 – DVD release – The Marcel Perez Collection: Volume 2 – Undercrank Productions – available on Amazon
Weds, Feb 28 at 12:30 – performance and talk at NYU Cinema Studies class – NYC – piano
March
Sun Mar 2 at 2:00 – Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People – Hewlett-Woodmere Library – Hewlett NY (Long Island) – piano
Sun Mar 2 at 8:00 – Buster Keaton in One Week – Treasure Valley Symphony Orchestra – Ontario OR – orchestral score by Ben Model
Sat Mar 10 at 2:30 – “Women’s ‘Herstory’ Month” program – The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
Tues Mar 13 – W.C. Fields in It’s The Old Army Game – DVD/Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber – theatre organ
Weds Mar 14 at 7:30 – “Slapstick Divas” program, introduced by Steve Massa – comedy shorts with Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew, Alice Howell, Fay Tincher, Wanda Wiley and Gale Henry – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Mon Mar 19 at 2:00 – Lois Weber’s “Shoes” – St. Francis College Women’s Film Festival – Brooklyn NY – piano
Thurs-Sat Mar 22-24 – Parallel Exit’s “The Final Reel” (physical comedy theatre show) – Voorhees Theatre at City Tech College/CUNY – Brooklyn NY – piano
Thurs Mar 29 at 10:00am – Columbia University silent film course (not open to public) – Columbia University – New York NY – piano
April
Thurs April 5 at 7:30 – “Mostly Lost” presentation – includes Ben Model’s “Undercranking: The Magic Behind the Slapstick” – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – piano
Thurs April 12 at 7:30 – Thomas Meighan in The Racket – new restoration by the Academy Film Archive – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Sat April 14 at 1:30 & 7:00 – Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant and The Adventurer, plus Felix the Cat in Pedigreedy – Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra – Saskatchewan ON, Canada – orchestral scores by Ben Model (not in attendance)
Sat April 14 at 2:30 – Chaplin and Keaton shorts: The Tramp, The Fireman, The Scarecrow, The Blacksmith — The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
Mon Apr 16 at 7:00 – Modern Mondays: Shannon Plumb – MoMA – New York NY – piano
Tues Apr 17 at 5:30 – Julien Duvivier’s Au Bonheur de Dames – St. Francis College – Brooklyn NY – piano
Sat Apr 28 at 8:00 – Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People – TCM Classic Film Festival – Egyptian Theatre – Hollywood CA – theatre organ
Sun Apr 29 at [TBD] – “Mostly Lost” presentation – includes Ben Model’s “Undercranking: The Magic Behind the Slapstick” – TCM Classic Film Festival – “Club TCM” – Hollywood CA – piano
May
Thurs May 3 at 8:45am – school assembly for 4th graders – The Town School – NYC – piano
Fri May 4 at 1:30pm – Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail – MoMA – NYC – piano
Sat May 12 at 2:30 – Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. — The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
Weds May 16 at 7:30 – Edith Storey in A Florida Enchantment, plus (short) Jane’s Bashful Hero – guest speaker, Steve Massa – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Sun May 20 at 1:30pm – Howard Hawks’ Fig Leaves – MoMA – NYC – theatre organ
Sun May 20 at 4:00pm – Howard Hawks’ Fazil – MoMA – NYC – theatre organ
Sun May 20 at 7:00pm – Howard Hawks’ Paid To Love – MoMA – NYC – theatre organ
Summer
Fri June 1 at 10am – Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant (1917) – education program – Museum of the Moving Image – Long Island City NY – piano
Sat June 9 at 2:30 – John Barrymore in Tempest (1928) — The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
June 13-16 – 7th annual Mostly Lost film identification workshop – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – piano
Thurs June 14 at 7:30 – Marie Doro in Lost and Won (1916) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Fri June 22 at 7:00 – Paul Wegener’s The Golem (1920) – The Morgan Library & Museum – New York NY – piano
Tues June 26 at 7:30 – The Lost World (1925) – new restoration – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Sun July 1 at 8:00 – Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer (1917) – Missouri Theatre – Columbia MO – orchestral score performed by the Missouri Symphony
Sat July 7 at 2:30 – Laurel & Hardy in: From Soup To Nuts, You’re Darn Tootin’, Their Purple Moment and Should Married Men Go Home? — The Silent Clowns Film Series – New York NY – piano
Fri July 13 at 8:30 – Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) – Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts – State Theater – State College PA – theatre organ
Weds July 18 at 7:30 – Buster Keaton’s Three Ages (1923) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
Weds July 25 at 8:00 -Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) – Alamo Drafthouse – Brooklyn NY – theatre organ
Fri July 27 at 6:30 – silent comedy shorts program (TBD) – Katonah Library – Katonah NY – piano
Thur Aug 2 at 8:30 – Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant and The Adventurer plus Buster Keaton’s One Week and Cops – Queen of the Square Cinema, presented outdoors – Stratford, Ontario (Canada) – orchestral scores performed by the Stratford Symphony
Fri Aug 3 at 7:30 – Marion Davies in When Knighthood Was In Flower (1922) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Weds Aug 8 at 6:30 – 16mm Film Nights: Women in Silent Film – NY Public Library Schwarzman Building – New York NY – piano
Weds Aug 15 at 7:30 – Marcel Perez comedy shorts (titles TBD) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – theatre organ
September
Thurs, Sept 6 at 8:50am – Josef von Sternberg’s The Docks of New York – Wesleyan University film course (not open to public or to students not enrolled in course) – Middletown CT – theatre organ
Sat, Sept 8 10 at 2:30 – Harold Lloyd in Grandma’s Boy, plus Charley Chase in The Fraidy Cat and A Ten-Minute Egg — The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYC – piano
Tues Sept 18 at 11:10am – William S. Hart in Hell’s Hinges – St. Francis College – Brooklyn NY – piano
Weds, Sept 19 at 7:30 – Douglas Fairbanks in The Three Musketeers (35mm print of new restoration by SFSFF/MoMA) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – theatre organ
Mon Sept 24 at 3:00 – silent film TBA – St. Francis College – Brooklyn NY – piano
October
Sat, Oct 13 at 2:30 – Harold Lloyd in All Aboard (’17) and High and Dizzy (1920), Charley Chase in Love in Armor (’15), The Rat’s Knuckles (’25) and Bromo and Juliet (’26). — The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYC – piano
Sat Oct 13 at 7pm – movie-themed symphony concert including Buster Keaton’s Cops (1922) – Symphony in the Valley – Ute Theatre – Rifle CO – orchestral score by Ben Model
Sun Oct 14 at 4pm – movie-themed symphony concert including Buster Keaton’s Cops (1922) – Symphony in the Valley – Glenwood Springs High School – Glenwood Springs CO – orchestral score by Ben Model
Fri Oct 19 at 7:30 – Todd Browning’s Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Sat Oct 20 at 7:30 – Benjamin Christensen’s Haxan (1922) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – theatre organ
Tues Oct 23 at 7:00 – Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters (1928) – Ambler Theatre 90th anniversary show – Ambler PA – theatre organ
Weds, Oct 24 at 7:30 – F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – theatre organ
Thurs, Oct 25 at 8:00 – Todd Browning’s Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi – Rivertown Film Society, in association with Arts Rock and Arts Angels – Nyack High School – Nyack NY – theatre organ
Tues Oct 30 – *DVD RELEASE* – Found at Mostly Lost: Volume 2 from Undercrank Productions – disc details are on the Undercrank Prods. website
Weds Oct 31 at 2:00 – Halloween silent film TBA – St. Francis College – Brooklyn NY – piano
November
Thurs, Nov 1 at 1:30 – Douglas Fairbanks in American Aristocracy – MoMA – NYC – piano
Fri, Nov 2 at 7:30 – Alice Howell comedies – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
Sat, Nov 3 at 1:30 – Marion Davies in The Cardboard Lover (1927) – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
Sat, Nov 3 at 5:00 – Marion Davies in Beauty’s Worth (1922) – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
Sun, Nov 4 at 4:00 – Marion Davies in Show People (1928) – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
Sun, Nov 4 at 6:00 – Marion Davies in When Knighthood Was In Flower (1922) – AFI Silver Theater – Silver Spring MD – theatre organ
Sun, Nov 4 at 8:00 – Buster Keaton in One Week (1920) – performed by the Oklahoma Youth Symphony – Petrie Recital Hall – Oklahoma City OK – orchestral score
Sat, Nov 10 at 2:30 – Harold Lloyd and Charley Chase comedies — The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYC – piano
Sun, Nov 11 at 4:00 – silent comedy shorts program – Edmond Town Hall – Newtown CT – piano
Weds, Nov 14 at 7:30 – Lois Weber’s The Blot – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY – theatre organ
Thurs, Nov 15 at 8:00 – Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer and Buster Keaton’s One Week – Arbor View High School Orchestra – Las Vegas NV – orchestral scores
Fri Nov 23 thru Sun Dec 2 – “Silent Comedy International” – 1o-day series of silent comedy films from France, England, Germany, Italy, Denmark and the US – co-curated by Ben Model, Steve Massa and Dave Kehr – program listings and film titles will be available late October on the MoMA film calendar.