 
Anything But Silent: Classics from the Silent Age
Harold Lloyd in THE KID BROTHER
Tuesday, May 20 @ 7:30pm
$9 Members /$12 Public
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Live score performed and improvised by Ben Model
on the Cinema's Mighty Miditzer Theater Organ!
Harold Lloyd (1893-1971), the third genius of silent comedy, made more films than Chaplin and Keaton combined, out-paced both at the box office, and, as for gags and laughs, “few people have equaled him and nobody has ever beaten him” (James Agee). Remembered as The Man on the Clock, Lloyd’s legendary “thrill pictures” were but a small part of an extraordinary career. In his comic masterpiece The Kid Brother, Lloyd plays Harold Hickory, the youngest son in a family of burly mountain lawmen. When Mary Powers (Jobyna Ralston) arrives in town with a medicine show, it sets brother against brother in one of the finest––and funniest––of all the silent comedies. Guaranteed fun for the whole family.
USA, 1927, 84 min., b/w
  
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For over two decades Ben Model has served as resident silent film accompanist for The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Ben composes and improvises all his own scores and performs in a style that both evokes the silent era and reflects a contemporary (and younger) audience's appreciation of music and film scoring.
Click HERE to visit Ben Model's official website
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