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Opinion

50 Years Without Buster Keaton: My Neurotic Relationship with Buster Keaton and Why He Makes Me OK with Being Me.

Feb 1, 2016 The Retro Set 2

On this day in 1966, the motion pictures lost one of its few, true creative giants: Buster Keaton passed at the age of 70.   Taken by an aggressive form of lung cancer, Keaton didn’t have any idea […]

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Blue Peas and Other 2-Strip Technicolor Marvels

Nov 20, 2014 The Retro Set 0

Not long ago I was watching Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, which I’ve watched multiple times—not because I feel it is necessarily a great film, but because few modern films have so accurately pinpointed the look […]

Opinion

The Importance of Being Chaplin

Aug 14, 2014 The Retro Set 1

“The little fellow,” Vanity Fair once wrote, “was not a small man.” Indeed, there are movie stars. There are superstars. There are legends. And then there’s Charlie Chaplin. He was born on April 16, 1889 […]

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