Buster Keaton
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
New digital restorations of two of Buster Keaton's greatest historical works.
Battling butler: Buster plays a love-struck weakling who must pretend to be boxer in order to gain respect from the family of the girl he loves.
Seven chances: Keaton learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day.
8) Sunset Blvd
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad,...
10) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
12) Sherlock Jr
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Buster Keaton plays a boy employed as a moving picture operator in a small town theater who was at the same time studying to become a detective. The events that followed show that you can't do two things at the same time.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Formats
Description
"Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL is not simply one of the greatest silent comedies ever made, it is one of the greatest films of any era. In restaging the true story of one man s journey behind enemy lines to reclaim his captured locomotive during the Civil War, Keaton stages a series of complex chases, using lumbering trains as comedic props. Keaton s inventive mind is matched only by his physical athleticism, making THE GENERAL a truly breath-taking...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
[Back stage] This film contains many of the routines Buster used in the "Three Keatons" stage act, and can rightly be called the first Keaton directed film.
[Good night, nurse!] Arbuckle's surrealistic nightmare where he escapes the operating table, runs away and inadvertently enters a "Great Heavyweight Race." Arbuckle also gives his best "in drag" performance, playing a flirting nurse to Keaton's doctor.
[Coney Island] Presents Roscoe's nephew,...
17) The general
Series
Language
English
Description
[The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single handedly. [The playhouse] A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts. [Cops] A comedy of errors in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct.
18) Limelight
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
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...
20) The general
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corporation
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Remastered version of the Keaton classic in which he plays an engineer unable to register for service during the Civil War because he is needed to run his train. Instead, he inadvertantly becomes a hero without enlisting.
