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Pick of the Day: Buster Keaton Festival (near LA) 1/6

December 28, 2023

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The Marx Brothers always get plenty of play during the turn of the year, but, if you’re in the mode for black and white film comedy that still stands the test of time, you best not forget about comedy/filmmaking legend and pioneer Buster Keaton. His daring stunts made for some of the most enduring images of comedy at the outset of moving pictures and are still astounding by today’s standards.

Fortunately, for Angelenos, an entire Buster Keaton Festival has been created that will celebrate Keaton’s memory at El Segundo’s Old Town Music Hall. Not only will you get to joyfully run through Buster’s filmography, but it will be live accompanies by Old Town Music Hall’s beautiful Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ, played by Mark Herman.

This very special silent film festival is slated for Sat. Jan. 6th at 2:30PM will only run you $20. Please go get tix here.

Watch Trailer for Documentary on Silent Comedy Legend Buster Keaton, “The Great Buster: A Celebration”

September 24, 2018

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Outside the realms of cinema and comedy, Buster Keaton often doesn’t get as much credit as his contemporaries like Charlie Chaplin for the foundations that he set up for directing, performing, and, overall, being a star.

Peter Bogdanovich has set out to make up for this with a feature length documentary following Keaton’s life and the auteurs and performers (that includes anybody from Quentin Tarantino to Johnny Knoxville) that he had an indelible mark on in this millennium.

Get a taste of it with this trailer and look for The Great Buster in select theaters starting October 5th.

Rushmore, Funny Girl, and Putney Swope Just Added to National Historic Registry

December 18, 2016

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Rushmore, Funny Girl, and Putney Swope Just Added to National Historic Registry

Basically, it’s like the federal government’s version of “desert island movies”, but they get to keep adding movies every year.

Specifically, the National Film Preservation Act, adds 25 movies of cultural, historic, or aesthetic importance to the National Historic Registry of the Library of Congress.

This year, that includes vaudeville comedy Beau Brummels (1928), Buster Keaton vehicle Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), Billy Wilder and Barbara Stanwyck screwball comedy Ball of Fire (1941), Barbara Streisand shining in Funny Girl (1968), the uber-subversive Putney Swope (1969) from Robert Downey Sr., the live action-animation hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) and Wes Anderson’s milestone work Rushmore (1998).

Not a bad run of desert island movie, right?

Get the full list of films added to the National Historic Registry at the link above.

TCM to Do Month Long Tribute to Slapstick Comedy “Ouch!” Hosted by Greg Proops and Offer Free Online Slapstick Course

August 16, 2016

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TCM to Do Month Long Tribute to Slapstick Comedy “Ouch!” Hosted by Greg Proops and Offer Free Online Slapstick Course

TCM (that’s Turner Classic Movies for all you cord cutters out there) will be screening over 50 movies that celebrate the art of slapstick comedy in film. The likes of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Will Ferrell, and more will be featured in this tribute showcase that will be hosted by comedian and cinephile extraordinaire Greg Proops.

On top of all of that, there’s a free online class that will offer up the history of as well how to do slapstick comedy.

Ouch! A Salute to Slapstick starts on Tuesday, September 6th on TCM.