Buster Keaton

so Kino has remastered the silent starring shorts and put em out on DVD and Bluray:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/buster-keaton-the-short-films-collection-1920-1923/2070

Are any of these not in the box set? I think all of the titles I saw in that article are.

yes, they are, but they look (a little bit) better now, with some new music. The supplements are new.

they've been doing the same thing w/ the features for awhile.

The John Bengtson book Silent Echoes is a must for buffs --- tracing BK's shooting locations in LA by frame analysis.

Sherlock Jr. is number one and the best, of course, but I have a soft spot for The Navigator - the his reaction to the coffee the girl makes with sea water is one of my favorite moments from his entire canon. also I find the term "sea tuxedos" endlessly amusing.

is Buster's appeal/iconic stature fading, and is that why Sarris checked out?

http://www.fandor.com/blog/video-andrew-sarris-on-buster-keaton

where Buster met Fatty

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/07/manhattans-forgotten-film-studio/

Mother Keaton's vaudeville scrapbook now online via the Academy

http://digitalcollections.oscars.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15759coll8/id/417

wtf zero votes for "Our Hospitality"? That is clearly the funniest.

it's up there.

i stan for the navigator.

wow, morbz, that's amazing, thank you!

Fantastic link; cheers.

I just watched 'Our Hospitality'. No one put his body on the line for his art like BK.

Chan has been injured frequently when attempting stunts; many of them have been shown as outtakes or as bloopers during the closing credits of his films. He came closest to death filming Armour of God, when he fell from a tree and fractured his skull. Over the years, Chan has dislocated his pelvis and also broken numerous parts of body including his fingers, toes, nose, both cheekbones, hips, sternum, neck, ankle, and ribs.

he's Keaton's closest match, p much, but yes had bigger medical bills.

Wow. How is he still alive?

unfortunately he died in 1966 :[

pour one out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6xs-BSpIo

RIP Buster Keaton. Still doesn't feel real.

born today in 1895

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8Ulhn6JjE

Londoners! BFI retro:

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=busterkeaton

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f14c70bc-68a1-11e3-bb3e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2pe6ACOp5

DCers!

Cine-Concert: The General at National Gallery of Art
Sunday, January 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926, 78 minutes
preceded by Drummer of the 8th (Thomas Ince, 1913) and The House with Closed Shutters ( D.W. Griffith, 1910), approximately 25 minutes
World premiere of orchestral score by Andrew Simpson

Jealous of the Londoners, eesh. Morbs, have you seen many of that schedule's proclaimed 'Keatonesque' films?

just Suleiman, Quays and Jarmusch-Murray, only the first of which I think is much above average. They certainly have their deadpan qualities but I don't nec associate all straight-faced absurdism with Keaton.

Watched Playtime on New year's as part of that season.

Sherlock Jr. in the spotlight this week at The Dissolve.

http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/528-the-magic-and-moviemaking-of-sherlock-jr/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/an-amazing-buster-keaton-find

on the lost years, alcohol, and old age

Between jobs during this bleak period in the 1930s, he was taking pratfalls on the streets for cash and drinking with tramps. In another sanatorium, he was subjected to “a reasonable facsimile” of the Keeley Cure: “Nurses and doctors do nothing but pour liquor into you, giving you a drink every half-hour on the half-hour. You get your favorite snort all right, but never twice in a row. Instead they start you off with whiskey and on succeeding rounds give you gin, rum, beer, brandy, wine—before they get around to the whiskey again. … When you plead, ‘Oh, no! Take it away please!’ all you get from your bartenders and barmaids in white coats is a friendly smile. ‘Please take it away,’ you repeat, ‘it hurts my stomach.’ ‘Just one more,’ they say, for their purpose is to make the hurt in your stomach grow until it becomes unforgettable.” There’s a blackly comic rhythm to this episode of aversion therapy that’s uncannily close to the circumstances in some of his films....

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/fox.php

Beckett once received a request for permission to mount a Broadway production of Waiting for Godot where Marlon Brando would play Estragon and Keaton undertake the role of Vladimir. Nothing came of it. Keaton would have made a brilliant Lucky, the terrified serf whose role is almost entirely mute.

online for the first time

https://keatonroundtable.wordpress.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEjxkkB8Xs

What's the YT, Dr Morbius? In China, hence blocked ...

Also, for some Keaton restoration sausage-making/drama, Cineteca di Bologna v. Lobster films

just a thing on his philosophy of gag construction

Tony Zhou's a dork.

RIP Buster, 50 years today

RIP. At least he didn't suffer the indignity of being upstaged by a groundhog.

just Rickles

http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/getattachment/8162925f-b429-4c65-8dfc-85979a7a1ec4/image2.jpg

Crazy. I watched a 3 part docu on Keaton just yesterday as an introduction ( yeah - i've never watched anything of his ) and am now a fan. Had no idea it's been 50 years this week.

Keaton is The Stones to Chaplin's Beatles ( with Harold Lloyd as The Kinks). I'm a Stones guy.

new Kino collection of the 16 talkie shorts made at the Educational studio. They're pretty sad...

https://www.kinolorber.com/film/lostkeatonsixteencomedyshorts19341937

https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/the-sunday-intertitle-the-four-keatons/

I made a poorly edited little informational movie about Buster Keaton; the first video I have ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bmBf1cC5E&edit=vd

121

https://twitter.com/silentmoviegifs/status/783187323865407488

there's a japanese busterkeatonbot on twitter also: https://twitter.com/busterpic_bot

quality is random but his fizzog generally makes a nice change from whatever's on the rest of the timeline at that moment

anyway happy 121st birthday BK

He steppedbefore a film camera for the first time 100 years ago today

http://binniebooks.com/first-picture-the-butcher-boy/

https://gracekingsley.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/keaton-met-the-camera-today/

https://gracekingsley.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/correction-keaton-met-the-camera-on-march-21st/

http://binniebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Keaton-Datebook-March-1917_Butcher-Boy_cropped-First-Picture-2ab-2012-AMPAS.jpg

if you aint had the pleasure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxQveXScnbY

one of the coolest nights ever was going to see The General performed with live organist accompaniment at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. the organ rises out of the floor. it was amazing.

a gravestone for dad

http://www.busterkeaton.org/joe

Chapter 1 of a new book: "Buster Keaton's Climate Change," on STEAMBOAT BILL JR.

https://fqtemporary.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/fay-inhospitable-world-page-views.pdf

attention, LA, it's Keaton Weekend. Alas many events are full.

http://www.busterkeaton.org/weekend

A friend mentioned this and I hadn't heard -- Peter Bogdanovich has made a feature doc about Keaton, The Great Buster, which showed in Venice. Early word is not the greatest! But I suppose I'll eventually want to hear what Dick van Dyke and, uh, Johnny Knoxville have to say...

http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2018/lineup/venice-classics/great-buster-celebration

I leafed through Stevens' on my Sunday bookstore run; got it reserved in the library after Gottlieb's Garbo bio.

Oh, I only knew about the Curtis one.

Oh, I see. The Stevens is out, but not the Curtis until next week.

Wonder if James Karen is interviewed.

but the Roman sequences are done with even more panache than Mel Brooks’s “History of the World, Part I.”

Have you read the book about Dietrich by her daughter, Maria Riva?

https://filmforum.org/series/busters-century

Would be nice to go to see James Curtis introduce.

Autographed copies of the Dana Stevens at MoMI.

Nice article by Geoffrey O’Brien in current NYRB.

Actually I didn’t read the article yet, just the email about it which also mentions and links to several other relevant articles from yesteryear.

Have both the Curtis and Stevens books, the latter is shorter so I will try that one first.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n02/john-lahr/puzzled-puss

I read the Stevens and enjoyed it very much. A good biography interspersed with many interesting diversions about the times Buster lived and worked in. I started the Curtis but felt like I was getting pummeled with biographical minutiae and didn't get very far.

Sounds about right, thanks.

yeah i just finished the Stevens and it was good but does zigzag around quite a bit

Miniseries from Blank Check on Keaton’s movies.. starts here

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/three-ages-our-hospitality-with-dana-stevens/id981330533?i=1000612019681