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Tag: Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton for Galerie
New online films streaming and discussion platform Galerie is very cool. I recently hosted a live chat on the subject … More
Bogdanovich on Buster
Peter Bogdanovich has made a documentary about Buster Keaton, called The Great Buster: A Celebration. I spoke to him about … More
S&S December 2017
In the December 2017 issue of Sight & Sound, I reviewed Lawrence Napper’s Silent Cinema: before the pictures got small, … More
Keaton v Kurosawa
As part of the Radio 4 Film Programme’s A to Z of Film, I found myself going into bat for … More
Early Ingrid Bergman
I have three pieces in the September 2016 issue of Sight & Sound: a review of Eureka’s comprehensive new Blu-ray … More
Film and Notfilm
Ahead of a limited cinema release of the documentary Notfilm, I wrote about the episode it explores, Samuel Beckett and … More
Seriously funny
Ahead of a forthcoming BFI Southbank retrospective, I wrote about the the genius and the modernity of Buster Keaton for … More
Film historian discovers unseen footage of Buster Keaton’s The Blacksmith
The discovery of unseen Buster Keaton footage – an alternative version of The Blacksmith (1922) – is a rare event, … More