New on Video: ‘Limelight’
Limelight is a basically familiar showbiz story, with one performer’s career on the wane as another’s is ripe for revival, but there is far more to this late Chaplin classic
Buster Keaton
Hey Montreal! Le Cinéclub / The Film Society & W.P.U.C. Present: Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’
Buster Keaton’s silent comic masterpiece never fails to get an audience laughing from the beginning and applauding by the end. To help recreate a 1920s night at the movies, the film will be accompanied by live music and every attendee will receive a vintage-style souvenir program. For added pleasure, they will screen a vintage film …
‘The General’ Showcases Buster Keaton’s Inimitable Feats of Glaring-Do
The Railrodder Directed & Written by Gerald Potterton Canada, 1965 The General Directed by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton Written by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton USA, 1926 TSFF festivities came to a comedic crescendo at the Revue Cinema on Tuesday night with a pair of locomotive laugh-getters starring “The Great Stone Face”, Buster Keaton. …
Even for those who don’t grow up, your heart may still die
*Disclaimer: the following is based on and an expansion of an article written by Peter Howell, the Toronto Star Movie Critic. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a film of the lowest common denominator adds nothing to the institution of cinema. But as profiteers like Adam Sandler have already understood, when money speaks, truth is …