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Buster Keaton reads a Sunday Times on Westminster Bridge moments before doing something rather insane. London, 1965. As Big Ben chimes 9am, Buster Keaton — the silent comic whose greatness ...
Well, not quite. That title should go to Buster Keaton, the doe-eyed, stoney-faced maverick of the silent film era, whose extraordinary stunts make Tom Cruise look risk-averse. The two stars have ...
Conceived by George Lucas as the synthetic centerpiece of “The Phantom Menace,” Jar Jar was modeled after the physical genius of Buster Keaton ... an alligator, frog, salamander, elephant ...
Make a dragonfly and frog. Open to ages 8 plus ... Check us out on Facebook at Dallas Chapter Eastern Star Building Association. Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. with R.E.M.: A Silents Synced Film at the ...
PERRY, Okla. (KFOR) — Definitely ahead of his time, Buster Keaton was a comedian, director, stuntman, and master storyteller when motion pictures were still new. “He invented all of these ...
Kino Lorber’s new Blu-ray edition of Buster Keaton’s “Seven Chances” (1925) includes a comedy short starring the Three Stooges, “A Brideless Groom” (1947). What does the stone-faced exemplar of ...
When one of Buster Keaton’s masterpieces, Sherlock Jr., is re-released in theaters in February, the music will come from R.E.M.‘s Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi albums. Full details are ...
The film, of course, is Sherlock Jr. (1924), directed by and starring Buster Keaton, the greatest of all silent film comedian-auteurs. (Team Chaplin is welcome to dissent.) It is the usual Keaton ...
In 2022, he was the subject of two excellent biographies, James Curtis’s Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life and Dana Steven’s Cameraman. Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise, needless to say, are admirers.
But Buster Keaton's comedies rocked Hollywood's silent era with laughter throughout the 1920s. See for yourself with a screening of "The Cameraman" (1928) one of Keaton's landmark feature films ...
Buster Keaton’s rumination on love, cinema, and the love of cinema grows in stature with each passing year. It’s an ingenious film that leaves a poetic afterglow. Forty-five minutes is an illusion in ...