Tag: an auteurist history of film

  • All finished with the “Auteurist” series at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    Well, stick a fork in me…I am done with the 26 performances at MoMA in June, as well as the Sept-May run of the silents in Charles Silver’s “Auteurist” series, and have come out the other end. It’s taken a day or two for the music to stop swirling around in my head. I initially…

  • video blog June 11, 2010 – playing for Fields, actualities, early pioneers

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    Ben Model

    Here’s the June 11th video blog in which I discuss playing for a Fields silent, as well as for two programs of early films at MoMA and how it went in comparison to the performances of the same show last fall. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yi-eYTJegM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]

  • videoblog: W.C. Fields, the Lumiere bros., et al

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    Ben Model

    Here is my latest videoblog, (hopefully) the first in a series of near-daily blog postings I’m hoping to do this month, since I’ll be accompanying one or two shows every day. I discuss preparing for a show of W.C. Fields in So’s Your Old Man (1926) at the Library for the Performing Arts (6/8), and…

  • 3 weeks of daily silent film screenings at MoMA in June

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    Ben Model

    I will be rawther busy in June. Here is the schedule for the repeat-showings of nearly all the silent film programs in Charles Silver’s Auteurist History of Film series. It’s going to be a blast revisiting all these, and in three weeks of daily screenings of silent film. This go-round, the shows will be held…

  • video blog episode 1: Griffith, Gish, and instant leitmotifs

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    Ben Model

    I’m going to give video-blogging another go in 2010. Using the FlipVideo camera makes it a little more convenient, and talking-head blogging sure beats writing, and typing and correcting typos (which only seem to appear after I click on ‘publish’). I’m hoping I can be a little more consistent than the last time I tried…

  • musical theme: “An Auteurist History of Film”

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    Ben Model
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    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 piano Yamaha has loaned to MoMA for the series. (I shot this quickly, before the…

  • Oct 21-22: a pair of Scandinavian films

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    Ben Model

    Oct 21 and 22 found me back at MoMA’s Bartos theater accompanying a pair of films from my one of my favorite corners of the planet, Scandinavia. Afgrunden and Ingeborg Holm were screened, both in 35mm prints. MoMA’s print of The Abyss is okay; there’s a bit of decomp, but it’s complete. The print of…

  • Oct 1 “Lesser-Known Pioneers of Cinema” (MoMA)

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    Ben Model

    La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ. 1902. France. Directed by Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet. 30 min. La Vie du Christ. 1906. France. Directed by Alice Guy Blaché. 28 min.The Automobile Thieves (incomplete). 1906. USA. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton. 10 min. Francesca di Rimini. 1908. USA. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton. 10 min.At…

  • Back to Film School: Actualities and Glimmerings of More

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    Ben Model

    Back to “film school” today! Accompanied the “Actualities and Glimmerings of More” program at MoMA. Had a pretty big crowd, maybe 80-100 people. I didn’t keep count while I was playing, but am guessing it was at least 40 films. Since they were early actualities with little or no plot, and since even the story…

  • “An Auterist History of Film” at MoMA begins

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    Ben Model

    For those of you with weekday daytime availability, be sure to bookmarkthis page on MoMA Film’s website for An Auteurist History of Film: http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/989 The first 6 or 7 months of this two-year film cycle at MoMA, curated by Charles Silver, is all silent film. A different program is shown each week on Weds, Thurs…