All hail Buster Keaton! The Great Stone Face's pre-feature output is a comedic treasure trove that allows us to watch a performing genius perfect his filmic persona. Lobster's all-new restorations debut some alternate scenes and fix a number of broken jump cuts. It's the whole shebang -- the earlier Fatty Arbuckle shorts and Buster's later solo efforts. Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 Blu-ray Kino Classics 1917-1923 / B&W / 1:37 flat Silent Ap / 738 min. / Street Date May 24, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95 Starring Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. . Original Music Robert Israel, Donald Sosin, Stephen Horne, Timothy Brock, Neil Brand, The Mont Alto Orchestra, Sandra Wong, Günther Buchwald, Dennis Scott Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle & Buster Keaton
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What's this, a full compilation of Buster Keaton Shorts? Kino has released sets of these before, including a 3-disc Blu-ray package from back in the summer of 2011 and overseen by Kino's Bret Wood.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What's this, a full compilation of Buster Keaton Shorts? Kino has released sets of these before, including a 3-disc Blu-ray package from back in the summer of 2011 and overseen by Kino's Bret Wood.
- 5/21/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
“Welcome to Metrograph: A-z” brings George A. Romero‘s greatest zombie picture, Day of the Dead, on Friday. Saturday includes Abbas Kiarostami‘s Close-Up, Robert Bresson‘s The Devil, Probably (also playing on Sunday), and Coming Apart; Sunday, see the Maggie Cheung-led Comrades: Almost a Love Story.
“Three Wiseman” offers two Wisemans: High School and Titicut Follies.
Metrograph
“Welcome to Metrograph: A-z” brings George A. Romero‘s greatest zombie picture, Day of the Dead, on Friday. Saturday includes Abbas Kiarostami‘s Close-Up, Robert Bresson‘s The Devil, Probably (also playing on Sunday), and Coming Apart; Sunday, see the Maggie Cheung-led Comrades: Almost a Love Story.
“Three Wiseman” offers two Wisemans: High School and Titicut Follies.
- 4/1/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Weight has traditionally been comic fodder for actors like Fatty Arbuckle, Jim Belushi and now Melissa McCarthy in The Heat
"Nine out of 10 of the guys I fuck are black guys!" yells Melissa McCarthy merrily from her car window in the new comedy The Heat. The film is one of those cop-buddy flicks like 48 Hours, in which an uptight pencil-pusher finds himself partnered with a slovenly renegade in order to solve a crime, the twist being that both pencil-pusher and renegade here are both women: the former played by Sandra Bullock, who cannot disguise her disgust at her new partner detective Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a Red Sox fan in plus-size sweatpants and a T-shirt dating back to 1978, with hair like a haystack, who sits munching on red-hot chili peppers, as if to heat up the torrents of filth that spill from her mouth. "What is this," asks a bewildered Bullock.
"Nine out of 10 of the guys I fuck are black guys!" yells Melissa McCarthy merrily from her car window in the new comedy The Heat. The film is one of those cop-buddy flicks like 48 Hours, in which an uptight pencil-pusher finds himself partnered with a slovenly renegade in order to solve a crime, the twist being that both pencil-pusher and renegade here are both women: the former played by Sandra Bullock, who cannot disguise her disgust at her new partner detective Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a Red Sox fan in plus-size sweatpants and a T-shirt dating back to 1978, with hair like a haystack, who sits munching on red-hot chili peppers, as if to heat up the torrents of filth that spill from her mouth. "What is this," asks a bewildered Bullock.
- 6/28/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
One of the most anticipated annual events at the San Francisco International Film Festival is the live score performances held each year. While it would be hard to top last year’s Tindersticks live performance of their own Claire Denis scores, this year’s pairing of tUnE-yArDs (led by Merrill Garbus) and guitarist Ava Mendoza with a collection of Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle films did not disappoint.
The evening consisted of four classic films, including “One Week”, “Good Night, Nurse!," “The Haunted House," and “The Cook.” The musicians quickly earned confidence from the crowd during “One Week” as Garbus’s unique vocals standing in for church bells were suddenly drowned out by Mendoza’s wailing guitar, signaling a villainous force entering the frame. During the performance, the musicians faced the films, respectfully interacting with the on-screen action instead of having it play backup to their own act. Collisions, trap doors,...
The evening consisted of four classic films, including “One Week”, “Good Night, Nurse!," “The Haunted House," and “The Cook.” The musicians quickly earned confidence from the crowd during “One Week” as Garbus’s unique vocals standing in for church bells were suddenly drowned out by Mendoza’s wailing guitar, signaling a villainous force entering the frame. During the performance, the musicians faced the films, respectfully interacting with the on-screen action instead of having it play backup to their own act. Collisions, trap doors,...
- 4/27/2012
- by Sean Gillane
- The Playlist
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