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1) The general
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The general is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a shack. And he learns that the object of his affection (Keaton's real-life wife, Natalie Talmadge) is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud. McKay's personal struggles are punctuated by brilliant slapstick setpieces that involve an exploding dam, raging...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
[#1] The Garage: Mayhem with Fatty and Buster as mechanics who destroy more cars than they fix and firemen more adept at starting fires than putting them out. Neighbors: Buster woos the neighbor's daughter but his family and hers hate each other. One week: A newlywed husband tries to build a do-it-yourself house not knowing that his rival has sabotaged the project. The balloonatic: Buster takes an unexpected trip when he is carried off in a balloon.
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4) Modern times
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1033
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A loveable buffoon pretends to be a cameraman so he can be near a pretty office worker for MGM.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Exploding the myth that the Soviet silent cinema was limited to political propaganda, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky's the Cigarette girl of Mosselprom is a playful romantic comedy set on the streets of 1924 Moscow, occasionally peeking behind the scenes of the Mezhrabpom-Rus Studios. Yuliya Solntseva stars as a tobacco vendor on the sidewalk outside Moscow's Mosselprom Trade Center, who must juggle the attentions of three disparate suitors: a young cameraman,...
11) The gold rush
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
12) The circus
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
In The Circus, a tramp fleeing the police takes refuge in a circus, becomes a clown by accident, and falls for an equestrienne.
13) The gold rush
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in an avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal but Chaplin manages to keep himself from becoming dinner. Surviving all this, Chaplin goes on to fall in love with a Yukon dance hall girl....
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A five-disc collection of Keaton's 32 extant silent short films, presented in 2K restorations, newly scanned using archival film elements from around the world. This set includes the short comedies that Keaton made with pioneering silent comedy genius Roscoe Arbuckle, as well as all 19 of his independently-produced silent shorts that have cemented his reputation as one of silent cinema's most unique and respected artists. BUSTER KEATON: THE SHORTS...
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