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The Second Annual Village Voice Readers' 10-best poll, held this year in conjunction with my Films in Focus program on WBAI, received entries from all across the United States and Canada, more entries, in fact, than last year.

Rob Hunter loves movies.A He also lovesA working for the local "retirement home" as head geezer catcher basically he gets a call whenever one of the elderly residents escapes wanders off in a daze from the home.

Buster Keaton If you like Chaplin you will absolutely love Keaton, who is widely acknowledged for being one of the greatest directors of all time, a great screen legend and one of our finest actors, as well as one of the three top comedians in silent era Hollywood, and a true pioneer for the independent filmmaker; producing, controlling and owning ...

Warren Clements Published on Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 6:10PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

The Alloy Orchestra performs live score "The General" to perform at the Springville Center for the Arts Springville Center for the Arts presents a screening of the classic silent film 'The General' with a live score performed by the Alloy Orchestra on Nov.

It's an incredibly suspenseful action thriller, and one of Keaton's best films. 9. Seven Samurai Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" raised the bar for action epics, creating a standard that would hardly be dented until Sergio Leone's Westerns of the late 60's. 8. Die Hard "Die Hard" is the quintessential American action movie: a single tough guy against a ...

Buster Keaton If you like Chaplin you will absolutely love Keaton, who is widely acknowledged for being one of the greatest directors of all time, a great screen legend and one of our finest actors, as well as one of the three top comedians in silent era Hollywood, and a true pioneer for the independent filmmaker; producing, controlling and owning ...

A CONCERT at St Albans Organ Theatre this weekend will feature performances from a renowned silent film actor and organist.

Pick of the Day: Alloy Orchestra performs with The General and Man With a Movie Camera As far as I'm concerned this isn't just the pick of the day, it's the pick of the festival.

One of the biggest stars of the silent film era, actor and director Buster Keaton revolutionized the art of physical comedy.

She is said to have sold 100 million books. of Susan Sarandon. The five-time nominee for best actress is 63 today.

The great silent-era comedian Buster Keaton will once again ride the rails - and drive an actual locomotive off a bridge - when The Tallahassee Film Society screens the Keaton classic 'The General' as part of the annual Train Night at 7 p.m. today at the All Saints Cinema in the Amtrak rail station.

Ron Carter has a secret. Although he's the organist charged with providing music for a screening at 7:30 tonight of the silent Buster Keaton comedy film The General at Sacred Heart Cultural Center, he has no score.

"Stealing The General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor" One of the great stories of the Civil War is the Great Locomotive Chase, or Andrews' Raid.

BOOTLEG FILES 299: 'Parlor, Bedroom and Bath' . LAST SEEN: It can be downloaded from several web sites.

The 'Celebrating the Classics!' series returns for its second season on today at Celebration Cinemas in Lansing with two showings of the silent film 'The General,' starring Buster Keaton.

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will open the Oakland East Bay Symphony 's 2009-10 season with a concert benefiting the orchestra's youth education programs.

Join the Croton Free Library for an evening starring comic genius Buster Keaton in the silent black-and-white film classic, "The General." The film is based on an actual locomotive incident during the Civil War.

HEBDEN Bridge Picture House will be staging film screenings next week in memory of Roger Bogg, the cinema's long-standing projectionist, who died in June this year.

HEBDEN Bridge Picture House will be staging film screenings next week in memory of Roger Bogg, the cinema's long-standing projectionist, who died in June this year.