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Showing posts with label Buster Keaton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buster Keaton. Show all posts
Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

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"Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books o...
Monday, November 14, 2011

For your consideration — "Not written by the Earl of Oxford" edition

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Critic David Bordwell on Dante's cheerful purgatorio — Occasioned by a New York retrospective of director Joe Dante's films, incl...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

For your consideration — "Sad, beautiful facts" edition

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Sound on Sight: The "Gray Ones" Fade To Black — A passionate personal essay that really wells up my own sense of generational des...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

With pie-throwing momentarily the news of the world....

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Apparently it's all the rage today, so The New Yorker offers a cinematic and cultural history of the confectionery missile, as does Sl...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

For your consideration — bakers edition

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Mythical Monkey, who knows his stuff, posts an "excerpt from my upcoming essay about early silent film comedy" — specifically, th...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Scenes I love: WWBD

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"In a way his pictures are like a transcendent juggling act in which it seems that the whole universe is in exquisite flying motion a...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Happy birthday, Buster Keaton

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Pic pick: "Sherlock Jr."

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Mashup: Clip from Buster Keaton's "The Navigator" set to Kari Tribble's "Surreal Road"

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Most of the time this sort of mashup doesn't work for me. But this one does. It's from Buster's 1924 feature, The Navigator .
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Three Buster Keaton montages, because there's no such thing as too much

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Buster Keaton music video from Joseph Bolton on Vimeo .