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Buster Keaton news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Buster Keaton performances. According to Wikipedia: Joseph Frank Keaton, Jr., better known by his stage name Buster Keaton, was a popular and influential American silent film... [more]

Buster Keaton news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Buster Keaton performances. According to Wikipedia: Joseph Frank Keaton, Jr., better known by his stage name Buster Keaton, was a popular and influential American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".

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Moving Pictures: Buster Keaton's 'Sherlock Jr.': Brilliant Film Comedy, CriticismBerkeley Daily PlanetIf The General (1927), Buster Keaton's best-known work, shows the great comedian's more classical side, with its steady narrative arc ...  
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Alternative Film Guide (blog)Abel Gance, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton: San Francisco Silent Film FestivalAlternative Film Guide (blog)I'm not what you'd call a Buster Keaton (above) fan, but if I were to recommend one Keaton film, that would be Sherlock Jr. (1924), which features a number ...  
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival will host its fifth annual Winter Event at the Castro Theatre this Saturday, with special guests including film preservationist Robert Byrne, New York Times bestselling author Mark Vaz and Melissa Cox, granddaughter of Buster Keaton, scheduled to appear. Those eager to revisit the movies that first introduced the world to cinema as a serious art form can choose from the following titles:Chang: A Drama of...  
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Blu-ray Release: Nov. 10 Director/Writers: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman Starring: Keaton, Marion Mack, Jim Farley, Charles Henry Smith Studio/Run Time: Kino International, 78 mins. A true classic The irony of Buster Keaton’s The General being the first silent feature to be released in America on Blu-ray is that—despite its current status in the pantheon of film classics—it initially bombed. And not just with audiences. It was also critically...  
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Shooting the film in Canada was extra special for Keaton, as he hadn't visited the country in 48 years – since the time when he toured with his family's vaudeville act prior to moving to Hollywood. Accompanying Keaton on his Canadian ...  
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Perhaps the first action comedy, Buster Keaton’s defining 1926 classic The General makes great use of Keaton’s laws-of-physics-defying body and face, solid location work, and perfectly framed calamity to tell the story of a man who has only two loves—a woman and a train—and has them both taken away by the Union Army shortly after the American Civil War breaks out. Most adventures of the time tend to get the mildly condescending, “Well, it was...  
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Featuring Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Romauld Joubé, and at least 400 elephants Special guests announced By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is pleased to announce several special guests to attend the fifth annual Winter Event on Saturday, December 12th at the Castro Theatre. Melissa Cox, granddaughter of Buster Keaton, [...]  
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.comBuster Keaton tonight in 'The General' at the Morris MuseumThe Star-Ledger - NJ.comA poll by Sight & Sound once ranked Buster Keaton's The General among the 10 greatest films ever. You can find out why at 8 tonight, when the Morris Museum ...  
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By Joe Devlin —The Appetizer— Betty Boop and Felix the Cat animations.   —The Main Event — Three Comic Silent Film Masterpieces from Buster Keaton Three of Buster Keaton’s greatest silent films from the 1920s:  Whether playing a lovesick cowboy, a confused bodyguard, or a newlywed husband trying to build a house, each 20-minute film showcases Keaton’s comic genius as well as his gift for physical comedy. The films also feature musical...  
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Theater review: Light, charming take on 'Gifts of the Magi' has plenty of heartDallas Morning NewsRaveneau comes close to stealing the show by combining a Buster Keaton-style detachment with a bit of show-biz pizzazz. For me, though, the most striking ...and more »  
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Los Angeles TimesDepp promotes latest movie, but hasn't seen itThe Associated Press... as a brave and charismatic figure, and listed the famed criminal among his childhood idols, along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. ...Johnny Depp on 'Public Enemies': “I Haven't Seen the Film Yet”OK! Magazineall 397 news articles »  
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Our Heinous Heritage: Murder on the Chickopee RiverWesleyan ArgusIn the very recent past I was assigned a paper for which I had to find a contemporaneous review of Buster Keaton's 1928 film Steamboat Bill, Jr. After some ...  
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Different kind of clown looks for meaningFox Valley Villages SunInstead "A 500 Clown Christmas" is "more in the lines of Buster Keaton," said Paul Kalina, a former Batavia resident and founding member of the ...and more »  
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Save the world – keep tittle-tattlingguardian.co.ukTiger's playing his comic role with the brilliant deadpan of Buster Keaton. Behind his dignified but hollow apology lurks the wounded pride of a tyrant ...  
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Rochester City NewspaperART EXHIBIT: Jay LincolnRochester City NewspaperBuster Keaton, Stanley Kubrick, Marilyn Monroe, Uma Thurman, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski - this odd mix of characters ...  
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