“No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of the beginning.” ~ Martin Scorsese
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Archives for Silent Film Comedy
Mission Accomplished
I just love it when someone under thirty “gets it” about Buster Keaton and his silent film comedy brothers and sisters speeddating oslo.
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Comedy’s Greatest Era
“Perhaps because ‘dry’ comedy is so much more rare than ‘dry’ wit, there are those people who never much cared for Keaton. Those who do cannot care mildly.” ~ James Agee, LIFE (September 5, 1949)
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One Week
“I am sorry that… the museum, or some dime theater, isn’t showing every short film Keaton ever made, night and day, over and over. Barring only the best of Chaplin, they seem to me the most wonderful comedies ever made.” ~ James Agee (1946 review of a Museum of Modern Art anthology screening of silent movies)
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Photo + Ostrich = Story
“No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of the beginning.” ~ Martin Scorsese
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First Picture: “The Butcher Boy”
“Spitting flour, he leaps up and continues with the mayhem, swinging brooms, tossing pies, dodging flour bombs and climbing the wall shelves, throwing everything within reach. It is chaos, exactly as he loves it.” ~ Binnie Brennan (Like Any Other Monday)
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