Tag: eileen bowser

  • The film Mary Pickford didn’t want you to see – now restored by MoMA

    The film Mary Pickford didn’t want you to see – now restored by MoMA

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    Lubitsch-Directed “Rosita” (1923) Is On Screens Again After 95 Years and Worth Seeing I was on the fence about attending MoMA’s re-premiere of Rosita last week, initially. (This was on May 25, 2018) I’d heard it was being presented with its original cue-sheet score, and Pickford herself had perpetuated the legend that the film wasn’t…

  • coming in January 2017: 3 special episodes of the podcast

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    Ben Model

    coming in January 2017: 3 special episodes of the podcast This mini-episode is more of a trailer of sorts for three special podcast episodes that I will post simultaneously in the first half of January 2017.In this 10-minute mini-podcast – first off, I recap some fall DVD releases and a couple that are on tap…

  • Cruel & Unusual: shows #1 – #4

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    Ben Model

    Our first four Cruel and Unusual Comedy shows at MoMA have gone extremely well. We’ve had great houses – I’d guestimate 200+ people, and lots of new (and younger!) faces – at every program. Eileen Bowser came to our first show, and will be guest speaker at our last show on June 1st. It’s the…

  • 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…

  • 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.…