A career musician explains what led him to accompany silent films.
Tag: Buster Keaton
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The Navigator, Funny Face, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week
Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 10/12: Radiolab: Apocalyptical, The General, and 12 Weeks of Quimbus
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, October 12
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The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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A fish-out-of-water comedy that’s just Godunov
The Family features Robert De Niro parodying his past film roles—and American stereotypes in general.
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Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you’ll spend at the movies this weekend
A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale’s Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night
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All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green (part two)
The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.
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Best Film Retrospective
The series on this forgotten French comedian was eye-opening.
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See Yasujiro Ozu’s final silent film this Saturday
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre’s Second Saturday Silent Cinema series
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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The last word (in movies, anyway) on consumerism
George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead remains the best movie on the subject
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This week in Bollywood screenings: Son of Sardaar
Notes on the latest Bollywood feature to play at the River East 21
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The funniest filmmaker you’ve never heard of
French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center
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Video Drone: Keaton and Kovacs
A new installment of Shout! Factory’s Ernie Kovacs revival includes his TV collaboration with silent genius Buster Keaton