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A scene from "Sherlock Jr." Featuring a oegreat stonefacea Buster Keaton as a film projectionist who dreams of being a detective, the silent comedy classic a oeSherlock Jr.a begins with an old proverb: "Dona t try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both." In a week from now, the doubly talented Minneapolitan Barry Kryshka -- who ...

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 ...

Song-and-dance spectacles such as "An American in Paris" are one good way to introduce your kids to classic films.

More than 80 years ago, the movie experience wasn't complete without the accompaniment of an organ.

Don't miss the first classic movie in MPAC's Monday Movie Madness series set in the mythical town of Dogpatch.

Buster Keaton 's silent classic "The General" plays the Paramount tonight for a single special showing with a glowing restored print.

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 little down in the mouth? There are miles of smiles to be had from this week's roundup of the best web riffs on a comedic theme Da Vinci of visual humour ... Buster Keaton in The General .

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 ...

The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts is offering 50A movie tickets to view some great film classics.

Review: Silent Comedy by Paul MertonThis work is surprisingly short on laughs and long on entertaining biographical anecdotes, writes Robert Collins Sunday, 10 May 2009 Merton's companion book to his BBC series Silent Clowns pays homage to his comic heroes: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

"Waltz With Bashir," Ari Folman's disturbing animated documentary recounting the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the 1980s, is this week's Park City Film Series entry.

A poster for a film about a French postman training to deliver the mail just a bit faster a 'A by bicycle.

As I said in my opening day review of the film, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" isn't the rousing, 2009 summer movie "season" opener that most of us had hoped for.

It was a wonderful surprise to find Charlie Chaplin's last movie, 'A King In New York', on World Cinema TV Channel.

Stardom follows one who rocks in front of the camera but the real star is the one behind it.

Silent films and 70mm pictures are the norm every year at Ebertfest. Scene for the 1928 silent classic "The Last Command". The Roger Ebert Film Festival used to be called the Overlooked Film Festival.

Lawrence Lessig presents an interesting study and analysis of creativity, culture, copyrights, property and intellectual property in his text Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.

A classic silent film by Buster Keaton is going to receive a sound treatment thanks to a musical ensemble.

It took a long time for "Waltz With Bashir," a strong and riveting animated film with a harrowing take on the Israeli-Lebanon war, to make it to Fresno.