Author: Ben Model

  • April update

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    Today Steve Massa and I were at MoMA screening Thanhouser films with Charles Silver for a program we’re working on for October. The program will help the Thanhouser Film Corp. celebrate the company’s centenary; Ned Thanhouser will be doing a program with the LOC as well as at MoMA during the last weekend of October,…

  • Cruel and Unusual Comedy in MoMA calendar

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    Just got the PDF of MoMA’s May/June 2009 members calendar, with the full listings for Cruel and Unusual Comedy in it. Am posting the pertinent pages from the calendar here; click on the images below to see them larger. Unfortunately, due to space restrictions, there was no way to include info or a blurb about…

  • WNYC art.culture podcast

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    Margaret Pickering interviewed me after Wednesday’s show of Wild Bill Hickok. She’s a blogger on WNYC’s culture page. This podcast appeared on their page today and runs about 10 mins 20 seconds. The segment with me is brief, and starts at around 08:40. http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_black.swfClick on the image below to go to WNYC’s art.cult page.

  • Wild Bill Hickok at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    Just played show #2 of Wild Bill Hickok (1923) will William S. Hart. Yesterday’s show went well, and today’s went a little better. I was a little more focused and also backed off a little more. On the second pass I was also able to get a better handle on a western-type flavor on the…

  • Newsday article on Joan of Arc show

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    This is an article/interview from 3/19/09’s issue of Newsday promoting the Cinema Arts Centre show of The Passion of Joan of Arc which we did on 3/24/09. Click on the image to see it larger.

  • Wild Bill Hickok and The Passion of Joan of Arc

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    Tuesday morning, after a day off to rest and recover from Cinefest, I was at MoMA for a press screening of Wild Bill Hickok (1923) starring William S. Hart. At right is a still I found online of Hart as Hickok, with Abraham Lincoln and General Custer (well, actors playing Lincoln and Custer). The running…

  • Cinefest 2009 in Syracuse

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    March 20-22: Syracuse, NY – I’m killing some time before my JetBlue flight outta Syr, and thought I’d post here. Just finished 3 days at the 29th annual Cinefest here in Syracuse. The festival runs 4 days, but I couldn’t get here for the first day, because I had a show of Broken Blossoms in…

  • Mar 6: The Freshman at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    Mar 6: played for Lloyd’s The Freshman at MoMA. Had a pretty full house and the film went over really well. This is the 3rd time I’ve gotten to play for it in the last several months. While it’s one if the iconic Lloyd films, I still like Kid Brother and a couple others a…

  • Mar 5: Underworld at MoMA

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    Mar 5 – arrived at MoMA early to throw the Miditzer together for a show of Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld with George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook. Oh, yeah, and Larry Semon in a character part. Brook comes off better than Bancroft as an actor, and Brook’s screen presence is great for silents; perhaps…

  • Mar 4: Beau Brummel & The Iron Horse

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    Mar 4 – I can’t put my finger on why, but Valentino’s Monsieur Beaucaire and Barrymore’s Beau Brummel are two of my least favorite mid-20’s silent dramas. Perhaps there’s something about putting either of these two dynamic personas in a European powdered-wig melodrama. Beau Brummel also ends a few times. Don’t get me wrong –…