Buster Keaton. (cover story)Presents a brief profile of the motion picture director Buster Keaton. The decline of the great director and comedian in the 1930s due to alcoholism; His background; How he understood movies; Must-see pictures including 'The Navigator.'...
On KEATON: films— The Buster Keaton Story , directed by Sidney Sheldon, 1957. Sad Clowns (also known as Silents, Please ), The History of Motion Pictures film series, 1961. Buster Keaton Rides Again , documentary directed by John Spotten, 1965. Episode 8 ("Comedy: A Series ...
SinceSherlock Jr.is shorter than most of his other features it’s almost like Keaton cut out all the dross and what we are left with are sequences of cinematic gold. In this story about a projectionist obsessed with being a detective, there is surprising depth and inventiveness that is stil...
While Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd seemed somewhat diminished when audible words emerged from their lips, like Stan and Ollie, Fields blossomed in talkies. But, though they truly excel when offered the gift of speech, their silents are nothing to be sneezed at either.Although Fields' talkies ...
Buster's Bedroom: Directed by Rebecca Horn. With Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin, Valentina Cortese, Amanda Ooms. A young woman obsessed with Buster Keaton visits the private sanatorium where the actor was supposedly once a patient, but everyone the
Contents include: --Reminiscing about the Night Before --Strangers on a Train --Confessions of a Poet Laureate --The Blustering Blast --The Buster Keaton Cure --On Losing --On the Couch with Philip Roth, at the Morgue with Pol... C Simic - 《New York Review Books》 被引量: 0发表:...
Focuses on the films of comedian Buster Keaton. Comparison with Charlie Chaplin; Beginnings in the motion picture industry; Film characters.GunningTomCineasteGunning, Tom. "Buster Keaton: or The Work of Comedy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Cineaste. 21.3 (1995): 14-16. JSTOR. Web. ...