Having seen a majority of Buster Keaton’s silent work (thank you Kino), one of the primary distinctions in his character is that he was never explicitly the Clown. That was a role more suited to […]
Enough people have written extensively on Buster Keaton’s 1924 masterpiece Sherlock Jr., not to mention Andrew Horton’s book on the film, and certainly there have been a plethora of those who have written on the […]
The films of Harold Lloyd were the most financially successful of all the great silent clowns. Which, in itself, is no small feat. The most successful film of his career, 1925’s The Freshman, exemplifies the […]
I’ve always had a perverse fascination with comedy teams. “Perverse” because, historically, more often than not they tend to be pretty weak; some of them outright ghastly in their inability to elicit even a giggle […]
He’s cute, a little timid, incredibly awkward, a bit of a hopeless romantic, and yet, you can see in his eyes, a lust for life. Who am I describing? Well, three people, or characters rather. […]
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