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The Great Buster: A Celebration

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The thirty or so two-reel shorts, in addition to the ten full-length feature films, acted in (and directed by) Buster Keaton at the height of his creativity in the 1920s, rank among the glories of silent cinema, and one can never visit them too often.
After 1928, when Keaton left his studio and moved over to MGM (‘the worst mistake in my life’), the quality of his output declined steeply. Divorce, alcoholism and general collapse followed this move, until the ‘rescue’ of his later years initiated by Chaplin, who gave him an important role in his film Limelight (1951).
The story of Keaton’s fall and recovery is well-known, but it is good to hear it told again with authority. American director Peter Bogdanovich dedicates a documentary to the “Great Buster” that benefits from new archive discoveries, from this own professional expertise in the matter of comedy and timing, and an appreciative cast of witnesses, including Mel Brooks, Werner Herzog, and Quentin Tarantino.

(mlf, DokuArts)

Credits

USA 2018, 102 min
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Author: Peter Bogdanovich

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Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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