Tag: cruel and unusual comedy

  • Poil de carrotte

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    Ben Model

    May 3, 2009 – played for Poil de carotte (“Carrot Top”), the 1925 silent directed by Julien Duvivier. I recorded my blog entry as a blogcast/podcast on my digital recorder while walking home from MoMA after the show (so that’s why I sound a little out of breath), rather than come home and do a…

  • April update

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    Ben Model

    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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    Ben Model

    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…

  • Comedy Central Insider posts “Silent But Deadly”

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    Ben Model

    An article appeared on the Comedy Central Insider website this afternoon, plugging the “Silent But Deadly” PopRally event. Love the headline: MoMA to Get Let Artsy, More Fartsy. This article came from a tip from the blog of Max Silvestri, the comic who will M.C. the evening. His blog entry opens with: “On January 6th,…

  • long day at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    pictured above, L-R: Sandra DeFeo, Steve Massa, Ron Magliozzi, Ben Model Okay, here’s what my day was like — Arrived at MoMA at 11:15-ish, went to Titus 1 and got the Miditzer equipment and rolled it through the catacombs of the museum to the education building and to the Bartos Theater. Set up the Miditzer,…

  • Cruel and Unusual @ MoMA Nov 19

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    Ben Model

    photo of our Nov 19th class with guest speaker Eileen Bowser, MoMA senior film curator emerita. L to R: Eileen Bowser, Ron Magliozzi, Steve Massa, Ben Model Last night was our third class session for Cruel and Unusual Comedy at MoMA. The class is going really well, and we’ve got 20 people in the class.…

  • an “educational” week

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    Ben Model

    Yesterday was the Silent Clowns program of shorts released by E.W. Hammons’ Educational Pictures. We’d planned 5 shorts, but then I turned up a lost one-reeler starring Wallace Lupino on eBay a couple weeks ago, and we threw it into the program. So, our audience was the first to see this film in several decades.…