To say I all-but-devoured two new books about Buster Keaton understates the case. I've been nuts about the silent-film comic since ... about being a Sam-Spade-style private eye, with such lines ...

More than a century after comedian Buster Keaton started making movies, filmmakers are still imitating his stunts, gags, and visual style ... scenes in silent film history—even plunged a ...

It’s a miracle that Tom Cruise is still alive. During a four-decade-long career, he’s dangled from a flying Airbus A400M, ...

The film, of course, is Sherlock Jr. (1924), directed by and starring Buster Keaton, the greatest of all silent film comedian-auteurs. (Team Chaplin is welcome to dissent.) It is the usual Keaton ...

It seems safe to say that the film will ... parents Joe Keaton and Myra Cutler as “The Three Keatons,” a vaudeville act known for its rough-and-tumble style, which would see Buster’s father ...

In the 1950s, the film industry was once again in a moment of reckoning as Hollywood faced the post-war breakup of its monopolies. Beforehand, the major studios controlled the entire cinematic ...

If you haven’t been introduced to the surreal world of Buster Keaton, you’re missing out. Fans of the great silent comic know what I’m talking about: in Keaton’s shorts and feature films ...

Editor’s Note: Buster Keaton was born on this day ... With the passing of the silent film era and the onset of talkies, Keaton’s style of film comedy was less in demand. He was also plagued ...

Main St. The event features a screening of Buster Keaton’s 1924 film “The Navigator,” which played at The Lerner on its ...