Working even harder this year on improving my playing/accompaniment. Last night, as an exercise, I hauled out the DVD of something I’m playing for later this month and ran it on my laptop (mute) and played for it… as wrong… Read More »Doin’ it wrong…on purpose
On Sunday, October 20th at 7:00, the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (NYC) is hosting a free evening of silent comedies! Wind down your week – or kick off the one that’s starting – with two solid hours of belly-laugh-inducing classic comedies. … Read More »Harold Lloyd in “For Heaven’s Sake” Sun 10/20 *FREE*
I knew it. I just knew it. I’ve been looking for years for written evidence that silent film actors had to adjust the way they moved to compensate for the speed-up of silent film. It has always appeared to have… Read More »Undercranking’s “smoking gun” courtesy of Milton Sills
Tomorrow is the premiere of my new web-series, a bi-weekly YouTube release of a rare or lost silent film from my 16mm collection, newly transferred and scored. For now, these will only be available on YouTube (no DVDs). My first… Read More »Ready to see a silent film no audience has seen since 1928?
From today’s Newsday: Silent films amass a quiet following January 3, 2012 by JIM MERRITT. Special to Newsday Tonight’s Keaton film is getting a warm reception from about 60 people sitting in a screening room at the Cinema Arts Centre.… Read More »Newsday: “Silent Films Amass a Quiet Following”
I’ve long been a fan of Ben Ohmart’s “BearManor Media” book publishing outfit, and when I heard about what he had up his sleeve for the imprint about a year ago, I was re-impressed. After self-publishing a book on The… Read More »New audiobook on/of Francis X. Bushman
Newsday sent a videographer, as well as a reporter and a (still) photographer to last night’s show. The video piece is up on the Newsday website, and I’m posting/embedding it here. We show silent film once a month, always on… Read More »Newsday’s video on Cinema Arts Center’s “Anything But Silent” series
I was interviewed by the one and only Joe Franklin for his radio show a week or two ago, and the segment aired today on his weekly segment on “Bloomberg on the Weekend” on WBBR-AM and on Sirius XM radio.… Read More »talking with Joe Franklin
(scroll down for photos…) Sharing accompaniment duties with Phil Carli at the Fall Cinesation every year is one way I stay fresh as an accompanist. Listening to someone else’s playing – especially someone whose style and philosophy mirrors mine –… Read More »The Fall Cinesation is a great way for me to enhance my bag of tricks.
I spent a great week in Tromsø, Norway (it’s above the arctic circle, cartographers) last week. I shot video and, while I’m waiting for it to get developed, here’s a radio segment on the “Stumfilmdager” festival (“Silent Film Days”) recorded… Read More »Stumfilmdager in Tromsø – radio interview