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The General (1927)
on Sep 27, 2009 in National Film Registry Buster Keaton Silent Films d. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton / USA / 75 mins."It's got to be so authentic it hurts," Buster Keaton is to have said to his staff before they began production on The General, his late-era silent comedy about a powerful locomotive and its haple...
Battling Butler (1926)
on Aug 22, 2009d. Buster Keaton / USA / 71 mins.Warning: Spoilers.It was a simple and winning formula: Buster loves a girl but she doesn't quite feel the same, so he must embark on a journey that turns rather perilous, proving not only his love to her but his abili...
Go West (1925)
on Aug 17, 2009 in Buster Keaton Silent Films d. Buster Keaton / USA / 69 mins.Around the midpoint of Buster Keaton's western comedy Go West, our hero — a man from the east who is out of his element in the frontier, descriptively named Friendless — is asked to brand the cow for whom he has d...
Seven Chances (1925)
on Aug 15, 2009 in Buster Keaton Silent Films d. Buster Keaton / USA / 56 mins.On the whole, Buster Keaton's films tended to be developed as original screenplays, with gags, scenes, or broad themes worked out well before he knew exactly what was going to happen in a narrative. Sherlock Jr. was t...
The Navigator (1924)
on Aug 13, 2009 in Buster Keaton Silent Films d. Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton / USA / 60 mins.Buster Keaton, much like silent comedy's mega-star Charles Chaplin, liked to improvise, and perhaps his most expensive improvisation was The Navigator, a film that had all of its pieces before it kn...
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
on Aug 11, 2009 in Buster Keaton Silent Films d. Buster Keaton / USA / 44 mins.It is an exhausted but perpetually romantic cliche that the movies are perhaps the purest artistic incarnation of our sleeping hours. In both, we enter into the comfort of a dark room, relax, and find ourselves whiske...