Buster Keaton

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

Michael Nordine, lukewarm:

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/the-great-buster-a-celebration-review-peter-bogdanovich-buster-keaton-documentary-1201997753/

I suppose I'll eventually want to hear what Dick van Dyke and, uh, Johnny Knoxville have to say...

Coincidentally, Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson covered The General in their new podcast about the AFI top 100 list, and their interview segment that week was with Jackass director Jeff Tremaine.

it's his 123rd

A scantily clad, beer-gutted Buster Keaton, later in life, surveys with pleasure (?) his Lionel train set. pic.twitter.com/ghfoDqRMVO

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Just bought three Kino Blu-Rays of Keaton stuff: 2-disc sets containing The General and Three Ages and Steamboat Bill Jr. and College, and a 5-disc set containing all his shorts, including the early ones with Fatty Arbuckle. I watched One Week earlier today and laughed my ass off.

I just watched the Kino The General last night. I've seen that movie 5 times at least and still find it astonishing.

https://scontent.fnyc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/40477603_10156485320404000_7344300914024382464_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&oh=b8bfe6f135f7fa5e33a5f31764fbe9e6&oe=5C4B5753

Was watching the Criterion commentary for It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World yesterday. Don't think I even noticed Keaton the first time around - think the movie's sledgehammer approach to comedy had already defeated me by then - but once you notice it's him it's amazing how all that grace is still there, for the two seconds that he is onscreen.

I love ‘One Week’ - usually what I show to sceptics/young people.

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