The Silent Clowns Film Series is New York City’s longest-running regularly-scheduled showcase for classic silent film comedy. Our screenings are presented in Manhattan’s Upper West Side at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space and in Brooklyn, NY at the Cobble Hill Cinemas.
The Silent Clowns Film Series is a production of Silent Cinema Presentations, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to presenting silent movies with live musical accompaniment to audiences of all ages, in order to preserve the experience of silent cinema. We produce silent film shows at a variety of venues around NYC on a year-round, monthly-basis.
Our Hospitality
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
7:30pm
Cobble Hill Cinemas
Trains frequently play important parts in Keaton films – Go West (1925), The General (1926), and particularly our selection Our Hospitality (1924). Buster’s second feature is set in 1831 and has him take a slow train ride from rural New York to end up embroiled in the middle of a Hatfield and McCoy feud. Buster brings the 19th century to life, even building a historical train to do so, but nevertheless makes sure that the film is as funny as it is authentic looking. Preceded by a selected comedy short subject.
NOTE: Admission for Friends of the Silent Clowns members at this screening is FREE – but you must email tickets@silentclowns.com or leave a voicemail at (212) 712-7237 to reserve your seat ahead of time. If you wish to make a donation and become a member, click here. If you are not a friend of the Silent Clowns Film Series you can go directly to the Cobble Hill Cinemas website and buy tickets for each show.
We are proud participants in the Museums for All program. $2.00 admission will be granted to those enrolled in the SNAP program, by presenting their EBT card to a Silent Clowns Film Series rep at the show.
The Cardboard Lover
Saturday, July 18, 2026
2:30pm
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
Laurel & Hardy: The Final Silents
Saturday, June 27, 2026
2:30pm
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
For many years Marion Davies was only remembered as the mistress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, and as the prototype for Susan Alexander in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941). Over the last twenty years her work as a wonderful comedienne and terrific mimic have been rediscovered thanks to the screening of classics like Show People and The Patsy (both 1928). The Cardboard Lover, also from 1928, is a Davies film that has been long unseen due to the rocky shape of surviving prints. Now Undercrank Productions has restored this overlooked gem, and is making it available to fans of silent comedy.
NOTE: Admission for Friends of the Silent Clowns members at this screening is FREE – but you must email tickets@silentclowns.com or leave a voicemail at (212) 712-7237 to reserve your seat ahead of time. If you wish to make a donation and become a member, click here. If you are not a friend of the Silent Clowns Film Series you can go directly to the Symphony Space website and buy tickets for each show.
We are proud participants in the Museums for All program. $2.00 admission will be granted to those enrolled in the SNAP program, by presenting their EBT card to a Silent Clowns Film Series rep at the show.
Laurel & Hardy came together as a team in 1927 after years of solo work, and by 1929 had become screen icons recognized around the world. Already familiar with their contrasting shapes and shared derbies, as well as Laurel’s grin and cry and Hardy’s slow-burn and delicate gestures, audiences loved them and were ready to follow their transition to sound. This selection of 1929 shorts – That’s My Wife, Bacon Grabbers, Wrong Again, andBig Business – is the climax of their silent screen career.
NOTE: Admission for Friends of the Silent Clowns members at this screening is FREE – but you must email tickets@silentclowns.com or leave a voicemail at (212) 712-7237 to reserve your seat ahead of time. If you wish to make a donation and become a member, click here. If you are not a friend of the Silent Clowns Film Series you can go directly to the Symphony Space website and buy tickets for each show.
We are proud participants in the Museums for All program. $2.00 admission will be granted to those enrolled in the SNAP program, by presenting their EBT card to a Silent Clowns Film Series rep at the show.
