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Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 87 days ago
Paul Merton's touring show is bringing silent comedy to new audiences - but one performer continues to stand above the rest In the front row at Theatre Royal Bath on Sunday, a kid is screaming with laughter as Laurel and Hardy silently tear apart a house. Stan throws a vase through a window. Ollie drenches the homeowner with a hose. The boy thumps his trainers on the chair in front of him and gasps with delight. His dad is next to him and would try to calm him down, but he's also laughing too hard to speak. We are at Paul Merton's Silent Clowns show – his tribute to early 20th-century wordless comedy – and this is the joy of slapstick in action. Dad might not get Spongebob Squarepants and Lenny Bruce would fly way over junior's head, but the sight of a bloke getting bowled over by a ladder is funny for both of them. Merton understands this. For the last two years he's been touring the country with renowned pianist Neil Brand, showing modern audiences of all ages how silent comedy can still slay us, 80 years on from its heyday. As well as the Laurel and Hardy clip (from their 1929 short film, Big Business), his show includes snippets from many of the genre's other greats – the charming Snub Pollard , the legendary Charlie Chaplin and the masterful Buster Keaton. For me Keaton was the ultimate slapstick performer. Like Chaplin he understood that he needed the audience's love to get a laugh. Unlike Chaplin he never asked for it. The m ... Source: www.harnesslink.com --- 27 days ago
Buster Keaton, who had away from the winner's circle for 15 months, rocked punters back on their heels when he posted his seventh career success from 52 starts against the trotters on the second day of the Nelson Winter fixture today Sunday 7 June. ... Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 177 days ago
Kevin Pietersen is like the actor who asked what he was supposed to do in the pauses. “What pauses?” asked the director, who prided himself on the paciness of his productions. “You know - the pauses when other people speak.” ... Source: blogs.orlandosentinel.com --- 40 days ago
We'd exhausted the High School Musical possibilities, vetoed a re-watching of Cats & Dogs and loaned out Beverly Hills Chihuahua to a friend. So I slapped a little Buster Keaton into the DVD player as the rains came down after... ... Source: www.nuvo.net --- 123 days ago
Buster Keaton's forte for spectacular silent filmmaking coupled with Carl Davis' seamlessly matched film score delivered with gusto by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra elicited nonstop enthusiastic read more ... Source: www.newsday.com --- 175 days ago
Off the Wall goes all around the ... Source: blogcritics.org --- 169 days ago
Music containing about as much heart as the technology can muster. OK, so I tried the Pandora Radio thing again. After the first tune from my Marc Ribot channel, an excellent live version of his really screwy take on Jimi Hendrix' "The Wind Cries Mary," we ended up at a tune from Bill Frisell's Go West: Music For The Films Of Buster Keaton. (Actually, we ended up at a tune from High Sign/One... ...
Source: forum.dvdtalk.com --- 94 days ago
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Overheard in my living room during Extreme Home Makeover tonight: “Look at all those kids. There ain’t nothin’ to do in Kansas but fuck.” Posted in blog 365, boog, freaks and geeks, ohmygod, shits and giggles, signature thoughts ... Source: www.playbill.com --- 188 days ago
This month's column discusses the blockbuster film version of Mamma Mia! , starring Meryl Streep; and a meticulous new restoration of Buster Keaton's 1926 classic, "The General." ...
Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 188 days ago
This month's column discusses the blockbuster film version of Mamma Mia!, starring Meryl Streep; and a meticulous new restoration of Buster Keaton's 1926 classic, "The General." * Mamma Mia! opened ... ...
Source: blogs.e-rockford.com --- 154 days ago
In advance of my review for the new DVD set, MAKE ‘EM LAUGH: THE FUNNY BUSINESS OF AMERICA, here’s a montage of stunts, gags and great moments from the films of Buster Keaton. Prepare to be wowed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkdtS8OFlA ...
Source: www.altfg.com --- 183 days ago
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival will present a special series of screenings on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14, at the Castro Theatre. The screening films are the Buster Keaton vehicle Our Hospitality (1923), the Russian comedy A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927), F. W. Murnau’s Academy Award-winning (for "Best Unique and Artistic [...] ... Source: www.therpf.com --- 54 days ago
Image: http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1867/johnnygray.jpg Hey photoshop men, can you make it better ? This is the picture he offer to his... ... See also: Buster Keaton |
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1928 silent comedy Ratings: Jen 18/20 Dylan 15/20 Emma 18/20 Abbey 20/20 I watched this recently and have nothing new to add. With Dylan's unusually high rating, however, Steamboat Bill, Jr. gets the highest average rating of any Buster Keaton movie we've seen so far. ...
1926 romantic comedy Rating: 14/20 Plot: Alfred Butler, a pampered rich boy, decides to toughen up by living out in the wild with his valet manservant. While there, he's smitten by a wilderness girl. Her brother and uncle (dad and grandfather? cousin and brother?) rightfully suspect that he's nothing more than an effeminate weakling and do not approve. That is until they mistakenly think he's Battling Butler, a champion boxer. Alfred does nothing to convince them otherwise and eventually finds himself in a situation where he meets the real Battling Butler face to face. This has its moments. The finale is kind of neat and the first half of the film, where Butler and his valet (played by the hilarious Snitz Edwards) "brave the elements" is pretty funny. Once Buster becomes a boxer, however, it's just not as much fun, and it leads up to a climax that is really un-Busterlike. There's a lot stretched into a full-length feature film, and there's nothing resembling a classic Buster Keaton moment here. It does have an interesting story and for the most part is paced fairly well. I also watched "The Boat" from 1921 (not to be confused with Das Boot ) and "The Frozen North" from 1922. "The Boat" is a classic and has a lot of memorable scenes. My step-father laughed uproariously at a scene involving an anchor. It's a funny little movie. "The Frozen North" is not a complete film (at least my version wasn't), but it's an odd little surreal and sli ...
Shorts from 1920 and 1921 Plot: "One Week" is about the week following the wedding of Buster and his blushing bride. They receive property and a house as a wedding gift. When they arrive, much to the chagrin of the man his bride turned down, they find out they have to assemble their house. It doesn't go very well. In "The High Sign," our hero gets himself a job in a shooting gallery at a carnival and joins a gang of criminals called the Blinking Buzzards. Eventually, Buster stumbles into a situation where he is hired to kill the man who just hired him as his bodyguard. Oh, snap! Abbey: "I vote it a 20 because I liked it when Buster Keaton pulled a rope and the guy was on top of the hole and he fell down. I also liked when he kept going through the walls while the guy was chasing him. That house was funny." Emma: "Dylan took my space on the couch. He's mean." Dylan: "The chase scene was my favorite part. The first movie wasn't as good. Both of these movies had trains in them." Jen: "Zzzzzzzzzzzzz." Shane: "I believe I saw a nipple in "One Week"! These were both good, and both coincidentally had to do with houses and showed off Buster's engineering skills. Keaton had some kind of engineering degree, probably contributing to the zaniness of the houses in both of these shorts. Great sight gags and gadgets and slapstick with some funky little touches to fill in the gaps. "One Week" impresses with the relentless amount of comedy stuffed int ...
1923 comedy Rating: 14/20 (Dylan: 11/20; Emma: 16/20; Abbey: 20/20) Plot: Parallel stories about romance and and rivalry from the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and modern times. Buster falls in love with the girl, courts the girl, confronts a rival, has some kind of challenge, and overcomes obstacles to eventually win over the girl. Dylan: "The chariot race in this movie is the greatest chariot race in the history of cinema." Emma: "I still didn't get my spot on the couch." Abbey: "I liked all the funny parts. My favorite part was when Buster used the [spear] to [pole vault] up to save the girl." Buster's first independently produced movie! ...
