First impressions of the hit Bollywood comedy currently playing in town
Tag: Buster Keaton
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That’s entertainment: Buster Keaton’s The General
Buster Keaton’s The General is perfect entertainment
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Take This Waltz, and more in this week’s (and next week’s) notable screenings
A preview of this week’s notable screenings
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Oscar-nominated short animations: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The year’s contenders open for a theatrical run at Landmark’s Century Centre.
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Now Playing: Legends of Laughter
Silent comedy classics by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd screen at Park Ridge Public Library, introduced by Matthew Hoffman.
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This Week’s Movie Action
New reviews and notable films in this week’s Chicago Reader.
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The Cinematic Sounds of Bill Frisell
On his releases from the past year, guitarist Bill Frisell has accompanied Buster Keaton classics, a narrative movie, and historical photographs from Heber Springs, Arkansas; on Saturday he plays in a trio at the Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaumburg.
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Everything’s Funnier With Weltanschauung
Joint review of Swedish black comedy You, the Living and Will Ferrell-produced gag-a-thon The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
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Harold Lloyd opens this year’s Silent Summer Film Festival
The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd’s Speedy.
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“The Return of Charley Chase” and “Highlighting Max Davidson”
Charley Chase and Max Davidson, who starred in silent comedies produced by Hal Roach, lack the formal precision of Buster Keaton or the humanism of Charlie Chaplin, but they’ll remind you of what’s exciting about American silent comedy. Though the films’ loose plots are often little more than a framework on which to hang sight […]