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  1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhy Buster Keaton is today's most influential actor - BBC

    Nicole Davis explores why the actor and filmmaker's style is still a fitting response to modern life. Buster Keaton was something of an enigma to his own era. The silent-film star launched himself ...

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  3. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2022/01/31What Made Buster Keaton’s Comedy So Modern? - The New Yorker

    Jan 24, 2022 · James Curtis’s “ Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life ” (Knopf) is an immense year-by-year, sometimes week-by-week, account of Keaton as an artist and a man. Every detail of his life and work ...

  4. www.jagonews24.com › en › entertainmentWhy Buster Keaton is today's most influential actor

    Jan 25, 2022 · Keaton's films have likewise been considered a response to the absurdity of modern existence. His characters endlessly invite and contend with calamity, existing in a world where structures – both mechanical and architectural – are in a constant state of precarity, and where the elements themselves (he is perpetually battling wind and rain) have turned against him.

  5. www.rogerebert.com › features › camera-man-danaCamera Man: Dana Stevens on the Life and Times of Buster Keaton

    Jan 26, 2022 · The splendid new book about Buster Keaton by Slate film critic Dana Stevens is more than a biography and more than a critical assessment of the work of one of the most significant and influential performing artists of the 20 th century. Its scope is evident in its title: Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the ...

  6. www.rogerebert.com › interviews › how-history-movesHow History Moves Through a Life: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton

    Feb 17, 2022 · Ramsey started off asking about the reception to “The General” in 1926. Although it’s one of Keaton’s most well-known films now, and it’s the one most often screened, it was a fairly famous flop in its day. Stevens came armed with mocking derisive quotes from contemporary critics, and elaborated: “A lot of people thought ‘The ...

  7. collider.com › buster-keaton-sherlock-jrThis Buster Keaton Short Is Still One of the Greatest ...

    Apr 21, 2024 · A Century Later, This Buster Keaton Short Is Still One of the Greatest Comedies Ever. Sherlock Jr. at 100 years is a cinematic masterpiece celebrated for its thrilling stunts and meta gags on ...

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  9. www.npr.org › 2022/01/24 › 1075291379'Camera Man' unspools the colorful life of silent film star ...

    Jan 24, 2022 · The day before that stunt was to be filmed, obviously a high-pressure day in his life, his brother-in-law and longtime producer, the patron of Buster Keaton Studios, Joe Schenck, took him aside ...