The Silent Clowns Film
Series is NYC's longest-running
regularly-scheduled showcase for classic
silent film comedy (since 1997)!
During pre-COVID times, we have
presented monthly, year-round showings
of the silent movies of Chaplin, Keaton,
Laurel & Hardy, Lloyd, and many
others, all with live musical
accompaniment by renowned silent film
accompanist Ben
Model. Our shows are
hosted by film historians Ben Model
and Steve Massa, who
introduce the
films and hold a Q&A
after the screening, and
are curated by
film historian Bruce Lawton.
We are very
excited to announce that our
series will
resume in-person
screenings on July 16, 2022 � after
being been on hold
since March of 2020 because of the
COVID-19 pandemic!
Our film selections for our shows that
will be held in July,
September and November of
2022 will be posted very soon.
Our
programs are geared to classic film
fans as well as to families, and are
held on Saturday afternoons.
The Silent Clowns Film Series presents
its shows in the beautiful Bruno
Walter Auditorium, located in the NY
Library for the Performing Arts, at
Lincoln Center.
The PBS
television show "NYC Arts" aired a
feature story on the Silent Clowns Film
Series in 2017 and re-aired the segment
in 2018. You can watch it here:
The
Silent Clowns Film Series is dedicated
to the memory of Walter Kerr, whose
landmark book, "The Silent Clowns,"
was the inspiration for our series
(and its name), as well as to the
memory of William K. Everson, Lee
Erwin, David Gill, Herb Graff, Ron
Hutchinson, Eric James, Cole Johnson,
Eleanor Keaton, Paul Killiam, Don
Krim, Don & Karl Malkames, Warren
Rothenberger and John Rogers...and
dreams that survive.
Our shows have been
presented in NYC's Upper West Side since
we began in 1997, at the 78th Street
Theatre Lab, the New-York Historical
Society, The West Side YMCA's Marjorie
S. Deane Little Theater, Makor, the
Arclight Theatre...and since 2010 at the
Bruno Walter Auditorium at the Library
for the Performing Arts.
This film series is a
production of Silent Cinema
Presentations, Inc., a 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization.
Silent Cinema Presentations Inc. is
supported by a generous grant from the
Ira M. Resnick Foundation, from the New
York State Council on the Arts, the
NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and by
donations from Silent Cinema
Presentations'
membership. We
encourage those of you who attend our
shows or who want to support us
financially to make a donation and
become a Friend of the Silent Clowns
Film Series. Click on 'membership
info' (above) for details.
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