Tag: silent film

  • Newsday’s video on Cinema Arts Center’s “Anything But Silent” series

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    Newsday sent a videographer, as well as a reporter and a (still) photographer to last night’s show.  The video piece is up on the Newsday website, and I’m posting/embedding it here.  We show silent film once a month, always on 35mm and always with theatre organ accompaniment.  In 2011 we presented: Picadilly, Why Worry, Battleship…

  • The Fall Cinesation is a great way for me to enhance my bag of tricks.

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    Ben Model

    (scroll down for photos…) Sharing accompaniment duties with Phil Carli at the Fall Cinesation every year is one way I stay fresh as an accompanist. Listening to someone else’s playing – especially someone whose style and philosophy mirrors mine – helps me push the boundaries of my own scoring vocabulary. Listening to myself all the…

  • views of the Indian Lake Theatre, Indian Lake NY

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    Ben Model

    Here are some photos I took of the Indian Lake Theatre in Indian Lake, NY. They brought me up to present and accompany Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last” on Sunday, November 21st. The theatre was built in 1938 and was a summer-season-only movie theater, and continued to be so for the next several decades. The theatre…

  • Nosferatu at MoMA, on Time Inc website

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a cool video profile on me, just posted on the Time Inc. website, and made by Jim Fields. This was shot in the early spring, but I will actually be playing for “Schreck” in December during MoMA’s “Weimar Kino” series. Enjoy! If you wanna see it on the Time Inc. site click here. http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

  • Auteurist series at MoMA moves in the 1920s

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    Ben Model

    Well, we’re out of the woods, now (meaning films of the ‘teens), and the pictures just get better and better every week. The series screens on Wed/Thur/Fri at 1:30pm; the dates below reflect the fact that I only play on Weds and Thurs. In 2010 I will use the Miditzer for accompaniment more, as by…

  • Alice Guy silent films at the Whitney (schedule)

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    Ben Model

    I’ve just received my “marching orders” for the Whitney’s Alice Guy retrospective, Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer. Below are the dates and film titles I’ll be accompanying. There will be other screenings dates, times and films, but I do not know what they are. There will be piano accompaniment for most Sunday afternoon screenings, and…

  • Oct 3 – shorts & Zorro in Sag Harbor

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    Ben Model

    My third time performing at the Bay Street Theater found me with the Miditzer in tow. This was a request from Bay Street, and they covered a rental car for me to bring the instrument out (I don’t own a car, and the Hampton Jitney wouldn’t exactly work). The other thing new was that in…

  • October begins: 22 performances in and around NY

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    Ben Model

    October finds me working full-time as a silent film accompanist. 22 performances in and around NY, plus a DVD box set release. When not performing, the rest of my working hours involve preparing for shows, agent work for shows coming up and for shows percolating for 2010, being my own press agent and doing press…

  • article on Zorro, shorts, at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor

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    Ben Model

    Elise D’Haene did a real nice write-up in this week’s East Hampton Star on the shows I have coming up this Saturday, at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. Click here to read the article.

  • “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…