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San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Bizarre Twists, Frantic Disasters, and Dangerous Women

Michael Barrett / 10 July 2023

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival features iron-masked swashbuckling, flabbergasting twists, sexy farce, visual beauty, and strong women who stare into the camera, unnerving viewers.

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Buster Keaton’s Last Silent Masterpieces: ‘The Cameraman’ and ‘Spite Marriage’

Michael Barrett / 11 September 2020

Buster Keaton was aware that the camera can be a catalyst of violence, especially stereotypical violence, for audience consumption -- and that it could also evoke the shared joy of cathartic laughter.

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Buster Keaton’s ‘The Cameraman’ Casts Light on MGM’s Tyranny

Colin Fitzgerald / 18 June 2020

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Buster Keaton’s ‘Steamboat Bill, Jr.’ Is Still Painfully Funny

Stephen Mayne / 21 September 2015

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Criterion Puts Charlie Chaplin in a Different ‘Limelight’

Jon Lisi / 5 June 2015

Criterion's official release of Limelight should finally give Charlie Chaplin the proper recognition he deserves for his sound films.

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buster keaton

San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Bizarre Twists, Frantic Disasters, and Dangerous Women

Buster Keaton’s Last Silent Masterpieces: ‘The Cameraman’ and ‘Spite Marriage’

Buster Keaton’s ‘The Cameraman’ Casts Light on MGM’s Tyranny

Buster Keaton’s ‘Steamboat Bill, Jr.’ Is Still Painfully Funny

Criterion Puts Charlie Chaplin in a Different ‘Limelight’

Buster Keaton the Inventor and Charlie Chaplin the Conjurer

The Archaeology of Comedy in Short Films

Nary a Word: ‘The Last Laugh’ and ‘The General’

Nary a Word: ‘The Last Laugh’ and ‘The General’

The Cook and Other Treasures (2003)

Finding a Home with Tom Waits

‘Louder Than You Think’: The Improbable Origins of Pavement

Punk Is a Virus That’s Infected Everything

Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ Subverts Being Trapped in a Glass Castle

12 Compositions to Introduce You to Classical Music Post-1950

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