Tag: Ron Magliozzi

  • “Let’s Go In to a Picture Show” – popular songs about silent movies

    “Let’s Go In to a Picture Show” – popular songs about silent movies

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    I first heard about this CD project during the Arbuckle retrospective I co-curated for MoMA in 2006 with Ron Magliozzi, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Film and with Steve Massa. Ron had spent a number of years acquiring dozens and dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of pieces of sheet music from the 1910’s and 1920’s for MoMA…

  • The Humor of “Jackass” and AFV In the Early 1900s, as Performed by Marcel Perez and Others

    The Humor of “Jackass” and AFV In the Early 1900s, as Performed by Marcel Perez and Others

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    The injury humor of Johnny Knoxville, the Farrelly Brothers, and thousands of anonymous klutzes is nothing new — French and Italian comedians were doing it during movies’ first decade. Last September, a lot of people sent me a link to an article in the New York Times that articulated something I’d been thinking for some…

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

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    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 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…

  • Variety, Loves of Carmen, Kid Brother & The Wanderer

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    Ben Model

    Well, I’d only seen the American-release version of Variety, up till Weds (Feb 4). I’d played for it a number of times, and was glad I finally got to see the film with its original first 2 reels and storyline intact. When Paramount released it they cut out the film’s prologue where Emil Jannings and…

  • 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.…

  • Spooky Silents ’08

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    Ben Model

    October is wrapping up, and I’ve just wrapped up a slew of shadowy, creepy silent films: Barrymoore’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Sun 10/26 @ Silent Clowns, on piano), the Chaney/Browning West of Zanzibar (Tues 10/28 @ C.A.C., on Miditzer VTPO), Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera (Weds 10/29 @ Church of St. Paul…

  • silent film poster exhibit opens at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    I played at a press screening yesterday for the new poster exhibit at MoMA organized by Ron Magliozzi and Jenny He. The posters are all one-of-a-kind hand-painted posters from the Eastman Theater in Rochester. George Eastman didn’t care for the posters the studios were sending out…so he hired Rochester artist Batiste Madalena to create posters…