Source: designyoutrust.com --- 16 days ago A photo tale inspired by silent movie star BusterKeaton shot by Eugenio Recuenco. Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook ...
Source: www.avclub.com --- 30 days ago Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they’re on the outside looking in. But geeks aren’t born; they’re made. And sometimes it only takes the right starting point to bring newbies into various intimidatingly vast obsessions. Gateways To Geekery is our regular attempt to help those who want to be enthralled, but aren’t sure where to start. Want advice? Suggest future Gateways To Geekery topics by ... ...
Source: madammayo.blogspot.com --- 37 days ago This fun essay by poet Charles Simic includes many BusterKeaton vignettes now on video. A link you might want to save to reread and rewatch for a gloomy Monday. More anon. ...
Source: blogs.nybooks.com --- 37 days ago Charles Simic BusterKeaton in “The Love Nest” (1923) I have a collection of BusterKeaton’s films I bought in the late 1980s when they first became available on video. It’s made up of nineteen half-hour shorts and his nine full-length films, all made between 1920 and 1928. Every few years I take a look at some of them, and recently, being thoroughly depressed by our wars and our politics, I watched a dozen of his shorts to cheer myself up. Almost ninety years old, these shorts are still very funny and visually beautiful. They make the Dada and Surrealist pranks everybody was scandalized by in that era seem dated and tame in comparison. Charlie Chaplin’s bum is at the mercy of a cruel world. Keaton, with his impassive face and a hat flat as a pancake, is a stoic. He confronts one setback after another with serenity worthy of a Buddhist monk. In one short film, “ The Goat ” (1921) he’s standing on the sidewalk behind two tailor’s dummies, under the impression that they are at the end of a bread line. When he discovers his mistake, he moves on quietly. Keaton’s movies were a big success in Europe since his type of comedy doesn’t need a translation. I first saw one of his shorts in occupied Belgrade during the Second World War. I liked him instantly. His films are full of remarkable acrobatic stunts. Keaton started out in vaudeville when he was four years old working with his parents, whose comedy act included a lot of roughhousing; he w ...
Source: chexydecimal.blogspot.com --- 40 days ago Silent screen clown BusterKeaton Died on this day in 1966. This is a sample of some of his great stunts. (You might want to turn down the music.) ...
Source: nigelbeale.com --- 44 days ago I'm currently editing an interview conducted with author/comedian A. (for Alice) L. Kennedy at the International Festival of Authors recently. In it, she speaks of her love of BusterKeaton, to wit: Music on this rocks too. ...
Source: beeryblog1.blogspot.com --- 48 days ago BusterKeaton Podcast from nic beery on Vimeo . This is a podcast from a recent sold out screening of the 1928 BusterKeaton classic film, "Steamboat Bill, Jr." Carrboro, NC is fortunate to be the home of a monthly film series called "Century Center Cinema". They show silent, classic, foreign and documentaries. They are always wonderful movies and when silent's are shown, the music is improvised on the grand Piano by Erich Lieth. This podcast features nuggets of good Keaton info by International BusterKeaton Society member Laura Nigro. Also included are scenes from the film and music by Lieth. Century Center Cinema is a co-production of The Town of Carrboro and www.BeeryMedia.com and is curated by Nic Beery. ...
Source: baltimore.fwix.com --- 49 days ago BusterKeaton was a serious comic, a beautiful clown, a logical absurdist, a passionate stoic. Like Baked Alaska in reverse, he's cool on the outside, warm in the center; a fusion of opposing forces.... Jan 23rd, 2010, at 4:25pm GMT ...
Source: www.argia.com --- 64 days ago Liburuaren azala Zein itsusia nork bere burua aipatzea, baina zein beharrezkoa batzuetan, konparazioak egin ahal izateko: joan den astean txoko honetara Claudio Magrisen nobela bat ekarri genuen , puskatan aurkeztua eta, irakurle honen ustetan, aurreneko irakurketaren ondoren zati-zati eginda bukatzen zuena. Hori gertatzearen erruetako bat zen, irakurle honen ustetan, nobelaren hasierako asmo handia, XX. mendearen kontakizuna egin nahia. Horrek bihurtzen zuen gehiegizko, alor askotan. Gaur ekarri duguna, askoz pretentsio txikiagoko obra da, testu fragmentarioa hau ere, baina, betiere irakurle honen ustetan, hobeto funtzionatzen duena: Kari Hotakainen finlandiarraren BusterKeaton: Elämä ja teot nobelaz ari gara ( BusterKeaton: bizitza eta lanak , iaz Donostiako Meettok argitaletxeak gaztelaniaz argitaratua, BusterKeaton: vida y obra izenburuarekin). Eta nobela esan diogu, zer edo zer esateagatik, liburuak ez baitu inolako tramarik garatzen: Keatonen gurasoek hitz egiten dute semeari buruz, baita Charles Chaplinek, Clint Eastwoodek… eta Mike Tysonek ere (“Zortzi asaltotan itsu-makilka ibili ondoren leher eginda dago, eta soken laguntzaz, arrankatu eta azpitik aparkatzen du bere ukabil hezurtsua zure kokotsean”). Biografia haluzinatu baten aurrean gaude, barre murritzerako gonbidapen sorta baten aurrean; proiektu arraro baten aurrean: mutuari hitzak jartzea; aktore amerikarra galbahe finlandiarretik pasata kontatzea. Konparazioa handiegia ...
Source: gbs.tv --- 64 days ago Buster (BusterKeaton) and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week. It doesn't help that Buster's rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts. ...