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*
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?
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
This is a theme I came up with for the series at MoMA, which I play as the lights go down and between films (if it’s a double-bill). Gives you a look (and a listen) at the mod-looking Modus digital… Read More »musical theme: “An Auteurist History of Film”
Last April, Charles Silver, Steve Massa and I screened MoMA’s holdings of Thanhouser Films to select the titles for this program. As it turned out some of these wound up being on the latest Thanhouser DVD set, which I also… Read More »Oct 26: Thanhouser at MoMA
Oct 4 at 9:30 am (!) found me at MoMA bright and early for a private screening for a handful of young girls, their American Girl dolls, and the girls’ moms, a Grandma and a Dad. This was another one… Read More »Oct 4 – Dough & Dynamite for American Girl
May 6 – I was back at Radio City Music Hall for some practice time on the Wurlitzer today, in prep for next week’s SVA graduation. Turns out I won’t be using the organ at the ceremony — nothing to… Read More »Radio City Music Hall Wurlitzer (again)
Here are some photos taken on Tuesday at Radio City Music Hall. I was there as part of an invited walk-through of RCMH held by SVA’s creative and tech teams for their annual graduation exercises. Last year I played piano… Read More »Radio City Music Hall Wurlitzer
01.06.09 Silent but Deadly: An Evening of Comedy ShortsOriginally uploaded by PopRally Here’s a photo of me at the Steinway in Titus I accompanying one of the slapstick silents during “Silent But Deadly”, from the event’s page on Flickr.com
Today’s post is a videoblog: See you at the silents! Ben