Well, not quite. That title should go to Buster Keaton, the doe-eyed, stoney-faced maverick of the silent film era, whose ...

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 ...

Nicole Davis explores why the actor and filmmaker's style is still a fitting response to modern life. Buster Keaton was something of an enigma to his own era. The silent-film star launched himself ...

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 ...

And so it is with the appearance of two significant new books about the silent-film comedian Buster Keaton ... the hell happened, Keaton became the subject of a baseball-style trade, in which ...

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 ...

Buster Keaton was a comedian, director, stuntman, and master storyteller when motion pictures were still new. “He invented ...

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