Celebrities list / Buster Keaton

The General with Buster Keaton is like 70 minutes. Illusions Michael. Tricks are something whores do for money.

15. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Scorsese, 2005) aka Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (2005 documentary, Australia) Not seen. 25. Roundhay Garden Scene (Le Prince, 1888) The first motion picture, 2 seconds! 7. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966) 10* One of my favorites. 14. Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais, Japan, 1959) Good film, 8.5* 21. Deep Red (Argento, 1975) aka ...

Funky: I agree that Jimmy D's style didn't translate well to the screen, and yet as amazing as this might sound he was hired by MGM in the early talkie era as a "replacement" for Buster Keaton! Jimmy proved popular, but not so much as a movie star than as an all-round entertainer in various media. His radio show lasted a long time. I think that Durante's unappealing to many people now because...

I know you wanted to stop, but some of these are so perfect for your criteria, I'm listing then anyhow. Tense/atmospheric/gritty/beautiful (each fulfills at least two of the requirements, in order of my own preference, not necessarily how well they fulfill the requirements): Eureka (Aoyama Shinji, 2000) (my favorite film of all time) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) Gohatto (Oshima ...

Yeah...sort of an Homage to his favorite dudes, Stanley Laurel and Buster Keaton it would seem. It is criminal these films are not out in the world, being loved! So at a knock, I emptied my cage, to hide in the world...and alter with age

Are you familiar with Classic Arts Showcase ? It's one of the best programs ever created for tv. It's usually found on the local university or cable-access channels. I understand streaming video of this is also available on the internet. Sometimes people will post some of the CAS videos on YouTube. I've learned more about Classical music and artists in the past ten years from this source than ...

Yes, in the 70s, I, Claudius was a major TV event - and re-watching it a few years ago, it was still as mesmerizing as that snake slithering over the main titles. In addition to Jacobi and Hurt, mention must be made of Siân Phillips as Livia - Evil with a capital E. My DVD set of the series includes the documentary The Epic That Never Was , about Sternberg's ill-fated film version which was...

....Thanks! ..( gotta queue that up at Netflix )

On December 1st, Warner Brothers released five more musicals as part of their Archive Collection. All of these movies were originally released in 1929 -- proof that Hollywood learned to sing and dance shortly after it learned to talk! Sally -- Agruably the greatest star of early Broadway musicals, Marilyn Miller, made only three films. This is her first, and many consider her best. Songs ...