Silent comedy

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. …

Sunday’s Toronto Silent Film Festival screening brought together five sight-gag laden comedy shorts handpicked by programmer Chris Seguin. This wild and quazy quintet covered a lot of banana peel-littered ground, showcasing a very nice cross section of silent comedy immortals and candidates for rediscovery. The event benefited immensely from its venue (the nearly 100-year old …