Ben Model’s
Silent Film Performance Schedule
Below are the listings of my upcoming performances, live-streams and home-video releases, with links to each venue for more details. Shows are usually posted 2-3 months in advance. Sign up for my emails to stay informed and get insider info.
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I’ll see you at the silents!
November 2023
Fri Nov 3 at 5:00pm – Buba (1930) and A Crofter’s Life in Shetland (1931) – this program is part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Fri Nov 3 at 7:00pm – Her Anniversaries (1917) with Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew, and The First Year (1926) directed by Frank Borzage – this program is part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Sat Nov 4 at 2:30pm – Marion Davies in Beverly of Graustark (1926) plus Charley Chase in One Mama Man (1927) – special guest speaker: Lara Gabrielle, author of Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano
Sun Nov 5 at 2:00pm – Ain-el-Ghezal (La fille de Carthage; The Girl from Carthage) (1924) and ‘A Santanotte (The Holy Night) (1922) – this program is part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Tues Nov 7 at 4:30pm – The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910) and Kajastus (The Dawning) (1930) – this program is part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Tues Nov 7 at 7:00pm – Baby ryazanskie (Women of Ryazan; The Peasant Women of Riazan) (1927) – this program is part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Thurs Nov 9 at 2:00pm – King Vidor’s The Big Parade (1925) – Elmont Memorial Library – Elmont NY (Long Island) – acoustic piano
Sun Nov 12 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: Episode 96 – live–streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Mon Nov 13 at 6:30pm – Khas-push (1928) – MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Fri Nov 17 at 3:00pm – presentation for SDSU students (not open to public) – Founders Recital Hall, Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University – Brookings SD – Salmen-Reuter pipe organ
Fri Nov 17 at 7:30pm – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) – Founders Recital Hall, Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University – Brookings SD – Salmen-Reuter pipe organ
Sat Nov 18 at 7:30pm – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) – Founders Recital Hall, Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University – Brookings SD – Salmen-Reuter pipe organ
Tues Nov 21 at 7:30pm – The Eagle (1925) with Rudolph Valentino – 35mm print – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
Weds Nov 29 at 1:00pm – King Vidor’s The Jack-Knife Man (1920) and Henry King’s The Seventh Day (1922) – MoMA – New York NY – Steinway acoustic piano
Shows I’ve Already Played This Year:
October 2023
Sat Oct 14 at 6pm – “Ernie Kovacs: TV Comedy’s First Auteur” – presenter and panel mod. – screening + panel discussion with Josh Mills, Ben Model, Alan Zweibel, David Bianculli, and Heather Hendershot – Anthology Film Archives – New York NY
Sun Oct 15 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: “Rewind episode” – re-broadcast of an earlier-in-the-run live–streamed and live-accompanied episode – my YouTube channel – acoustic piano
Thurs Oct 19 – NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC – silent film course Guest Speaker, plus evening silent film program – Bowdoin University – Brunswick ME – digital keyboard
Sat Oct 21 at 2:30pm – Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. plus The Goat – new restoration of Sherlock, Jr. from Cohen Film Collection – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano
Sun Oct 22 at 2:00pm – Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. – The Bedford Playhouse – Bedford NY – acoustic upright piano
Tues Oct 24 at 7:30pm – The Unknown (1927) with Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford – new restoration by George Eastman Museum – plus the short Local Showers (1916) from the “Mishaps of Musty Suffer” comedy serial – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
Thurs Oct 26 at 4:00pm – program “The Ladies Get The Last Laugh”: A Lady and Her Maid (1913), The Boatswain’s Mate (1924) and Moral (Morality) (1928) – part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Fri Oct 27 at 7:45pm – Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – Barrymore Film Center – Fort Lee NJ – Allen MDS Theatre II Plus electronic theatre organ
Tues Oct 31 at 5:00pm – Handë: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: The Life and Loves of the Gentler Sex) (1928) plus Soleil et ombre (Sol y sombra; Sun and Shadow) (1922) starring and prod/dir by Musidora – this program is part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
Tues Oct 31 at 7:00pm – Ain-el-Ghezal (La fille de Carthage; The Girl from Carthage) (1924) and ‘A Santanotte (The Holy Night) (1922) – this program is part of the screening series After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project –MoMA – New York NY – Steinway piano
September 2023
Fri Sept 1 at 4:00pm – Loves of Casanova (1927), dir. by Aleandre Volkoff – part of the series Eye Candy: The Coming of Color – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – acoustic Steinway grand piano
Sat Sept 2 at 2:00pm – Broken Blossoms (1919), dir. by D.W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess – part of the series Eye Candy: The Coming of Color – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ
Sat Sept 2 at 4:00pm – Redskin (1929), dir. by Victor Schertzinger; with Richard Dix – part of the series Eye Candy: The Coming of Color – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ
Tues Sept 5 at 4:30pm – Wladyslaw Starewicz shorts (1925-26) – part of the series Eye Candy: The Coming of Color – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – Steinway acoustic piano
Weds Sept 6 at 6:30pm – Wladyslaw Starewicz shorts (1925-26) – part of the series Eye Candy: The Coming of Color – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – Steinway acoustic piano
Sat Sept 9 at 2:30pm – Alice Howell comedies – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano
Sun Sept 10 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: Episode 95 – live–streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Tues Sept 12 at 9:00am – Street Angel (1928) starring Janet Gaynor, dir. by Frank Borzage – Wesleyan film course screening: not open to the public – Middletown CT – digital virtual theatre organ
Fri Sept 15 at 7:30pm – newly restored Laurel & Hardy comedies (1927) – Duck Soup, Putting Pants on Philip,The Second Hundred Years and Do Detectives Think? – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA –Walker digital Wurlitzer organ
Weds Sept 20 – launch of new Kickstarter fan-funding campaign for Roland West’s THE BAT (1926) – click/tap to pledge
Fri Sept 22 at 8:00pm – Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs (1927) – Epsilon Spires – Brattleboro VT – Estey pipe organ
Tues Sept 26 at 7:30pm – The Scarlet Letter (1926), dir by Victor Seastrom; starring Lars Hansen and Lillian Gish – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
Weds Sept 27 at 8:00 pm – So This is Paris dir. by Ernst Lubitsch, plus Edward Everett Horton in Dad’s Choice (1927) – screening is part of the 3rd annual National Silent Movie Day events – County Theatre – Doylestown PA – digital virtual theatre organ
Thurs Sept 28 at 8:00 pm – “It” starring Clara Bow, plus Alice Howell in Cinderella Cinders (1920)– screening is part of the 3rd annual National Silent Movie Day events – Ambler Theatre – Ambler PA – digital virtual theatre organ
August 2023
Thur Aug 4 at 7:00pm – Reginald Denny in What Happened to Jones (1926) + Charlie Chaplin in The Adventurer (1917) – new restorations – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ
Tues Aug 8 at 7:00pm – Padlocked (1926), dir. by Allan Dwan – new restoration – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – acoustic Steinway grand piano
Sun Aug 13 at 11:00am – Mary Astor in Second Fiddle (1923) and My Lady o’ the Pines (1921) – Capitolfest – Rome NY – 1928 Möller theatre pipe organ
Tues Aug 29 at 7:30pm – Feel My Pulse (1928) starring Bebe Daniels and William Powell – 35mm print – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
Weds Aug 30 at 4:30pm – The Phantom of the Opera (1925), starring Lon Chaney – part of the series Eye Candy: The Coming of Color – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ
Weds Aug 30 at 7:00pm – La revue des revues (Parisian Pleasures) (1927), starring Josephine Baker – part of the series Eye Candy: The Coming of Color – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ
June – July 2023
June 13 – Raymond Griffith: The Silk Hat Comedian – Bluray/DVD release from Undercrank Productions – digital virtual theatre organ
Tues June 13 at 8:00pm – Charlie Chaplin program – Williams Center for the Arts – Rutherford NJ – Steinway grand piano
Tues June 20 at 7:30pm – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
June 20 – Rin Tin Tin in Clash of the Wolves (1926) – Bluray release from Kino Lorber – digital virtual theatre organ
Thurs June 29 at 7:00pm – Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923) – outdoor event presented by The Brattle – Cambridge MA – digital keyboard/piano
Sat July 8 at 12:00pm – Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923) – Jacob Burns Film Center – Pleasantville NY – digital piano/keyboard
Sun July 9 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: Episode 94 – live–streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Sun July 16 at 11:00am (PDT) – Edward Everett Horton silent comedy shorts – The San Francisco Silent Film Festival – acoustic grand piano
July 18 – Tom Mix: Sky High and The Big Diamond Robbery – Bluray/DVD release from Undercrank Productions – digital grand piano & digital virtual theatre organ
Wed July 19 at 7:30pm – Laurel & Hardy silent comedies – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Cobble Hill Cinemas – Brooklyn NY – digital keyboard/piano
Tues July 25 at 7:30pm – Tom Mix in Sky High (1922) – new restoration from Undercrank Productions – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
July 25 – Ernie in Kovacsland – co-edited by Josh Mills, Ben Model & Pat Thomas – book published by Fantagraphics Books
Mon July 31 at 8:00pm – Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923) – Strand Theatre – Schroon Lake NY – acoustic upright piano
May 2023
Wed afternoons (thru May 10) – Silent Storytelling – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – Wesleyan University – acoustic piano
Sun May 7 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: Episode 93 – live–streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – special guests Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi and Maggie Hennefeld presenting selections from the Cinema’s First Nasty Women Blu-ray box set – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Sun May 7 at 9pm PT/midnight ET – Tom Mix in Sky High (1922) and The Big Diamond Robbery (1929) – broadcast world premiere of new restorations by Undercrank Productions – Turner Classic Movies (TCM) – digital grand piano & virtual theatre organ
Sun May 7 at 8:00pm (CT) – Buster Keaton in One Week (1920) – orchestral score by Ben Model performed live-to-picture by the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra – orchestral accompaniment
Tues May 9 at 8:00pm – William Wellman’s Wings (1927) with Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen – Williams Center for the Arts – Rutherford NJ – Steinway grand piano
Wed May 17 at 7:30pm – Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Cobble Hill Cinemas – Brooklyn NY – digital keyboard/piano
Sat May 20 at 2:00pm –The Johnstown Flood (1926) – new restoration – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA –Walker digital Wurlitzer organ
Tues May 23 at 7:30pm – Yasujiro Ozu’s I Was Born, But… (1931) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
Fri May 26 at 2:30pm – Buster Keaton in The General (1926) – Elmont Memorial Library – Elmont NY (Long Island) – acoustic grand piano
April 2023
Wed afternoons – Silent Storytelling – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – Wesleyan University – acoustic piano
Sat Apr 1 at 9:45pm ET – Rin Tin Tin in The Clash of the Wolves (1925) – TCM (Turner Classic Movies) – broadcast premiere of new restoration from Kino-Lorber/Library of Congress, new musical score – digital virtual theatre organ
Sun Apr 2 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: Episode 91 – live–streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Tues Apr 4 at 7:30pm – Buster Keaton in The General (1926) – Williams Center for the Arts – Rutherford NJ – Steinway grand piano
Sat Apr 8 at 2:30pm – Edward Everett Horton silent comedies (1927-28) – new restorations – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano
Sun Apr 16 at 7:15pm PT – Rin Tin Tin in The Clash of the Wolves (1925) – TCM Classic Film Festival – broadcast premiere of new restoration from Kino-Lorber/Library of Congress, new musical score – digital virtual theatre organ
Fri Apr 21 at 8:00pm – Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923) – Epsilon Spires – Brattleboro VT – Estey pipe organ
Tues Apr 25 at 7:30pm – Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
March 2023
Hang on, will be listing these (already done) shows soon…
February 2023
Wed afternoons, beginning Feb 1 – Silent Storytelling – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – Wesleyan University – acoustic piano
Thur Feb 2 at 4:30pm – Ernst Lubitsch’s The Marriage Circle (1924) – new restoration by the Museum of Modern Art – MoMA – New York NY – Steinway B grand piano
Sat Feb 11 at 2:30pm – Harry Langdon Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano
Thurs Feb 16 at 10:30am ET / 15:30 in UK – Raymond Griffith in Paths To Paradise (1925) – new restoration by Undercrank Productions – Slapstick Festival – presented simultaneously as a live-stream and in-cinema at Watershed Cinema (Bristol UK) – live-streamed virtual cinema – Baldwin acoustic grand piano
Sun Feb 19 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: Episode 89 – live–streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Tues Feb 21 at 7:30pm – Pola Negri in A Woman of the World (1925) – new restoration from Paramount Pictures – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
Fri Feb 24 & Sat Feb 25 – The 26th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival – screening schedule is here – Topeka KS – acoustic grand piano
January 2023
Jan 12-26 – Tom Mix in The Best Bad Man (1925) and Outlaws of Red River (1927) – MoMA Virtual Cinema – recorded scores for streamed presentation – digital Steinway D grand piano
Sun Jan 15 at 3:00pm ET – The Silent Comedy Watch Party: Episode 88 – live–streamed and live-accompanied on my YouTube channel – individual show pages are here – acoustic piano
Fri Jan 20 – The Making of a Bronze Statue (1923) – premiere of recorded score for streamed presentation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “From The Vaults” online archive – digital grand piano
Fri Jan 20 at 7:30pm – William Wyler’s Wings (1927) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA –Walker digital Wurlitzer organ
Tues Jan 24 at 7:30pm – Buster Keaton in The Navigator (1924) – new digital restoration by Lobster Films – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
Sun Jan 29 at 2:00pm – Lon Chaney in The Unknown (1927) – new restoration by George Eastman Museum – MoMA – New York NY – Steinway B grand piano
Tues Jan 31 at 9:00am – Frank Borzage’s Street Angel (1927) – Wesleyan film course screening: not open to the public – Middletown CT – digital virtual theatre organ