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Salute Your Shorts: Buster Keaton's Lost Work

A common misconception about Buster Keaton is that sound killed his career...  read more

The General

Blu-ray Release: Nov. 10 Director/Writers: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman Starring: Keaton, Marion Mack, Jim Farley, Charles Henry Smith Studio/Run Time: Kino International, 78 mins. A true classic The irony of Buster Keaton’s The General being the first silent feature to be released in America on Blu-ray is that—despite its current status in the pantheon of film classics—it initially bombed. And not just with audiences. It was also critically reviled for its inconsistent tone and lack of plot, not to mention Keaton’s performance....  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Bill Frisell Scores With Buster Keaton

At least as far as the general population is concerned, silent movies sound like an old, tinkling saloon piano, featuring not so much musical scores as background noise to avert boredom...  read more