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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 classic silent film "The Cameraman" starring Buster Keaton will be accompanied by Dennis James on the Palace Theatre's mighty Wurlitzer at 3 p.m. 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 ...

BOOTLEG FILES 306: 'Le Roi des Champs-Elysees' . LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the last public screening.

" He was a silent film actor who really couldn't talk, thanks to a childhood vocal injury.

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.

While there's lots of music, theater and dance at the Chesapeake Arts Center this fall, two unique shows dominate the schedule.

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

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.

The music group Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra will perform an original accompaniment to Buster Keaton's "Go West" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Ragtag Cinema.

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.

"Disfarmer" is a tour de force of jazz creativity by Bill Frisell. Inspired by the stark photography of Mike Disfarmer that captured the spirit of "American Gothic" in the Ozarks of the late 1930s and early '40s, Frisell uses a variety of electric and acoustic guitars and electronic effects to create a profoundly eerie merger of old-timey mountain ...

"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.

The three Buster Keaton films included here are available on other DVDs, but what makes this disc so thrilling is that it includes the original scores for the films composed by Bill Frisell in the early 1990s.

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

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.

Free timeless cinema continues this month on Mount Pony with a selection of silent films, concert movies, a French flick, an E.M. Forster classic, old animation and the Marx Brothers.