Buster Keaton + letterboxd reviews by @ennaihš
Alright š” which one of you has been letting the days go byš¤¦
BUSTER KEATON (1923-1924)
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Bathing beauty Buster Keaton with Virginia Fox in Hard Luck (1921).
āi need you so much closerā
monet (impression, sunrise; 1892-1894) feat. death cab for cutie (transatlanticism)
āYou are glad to be here, arenāt you Buster?ā āAnd how, I came off of location to be here!ā
dark the netflix show and rusty lake/cube escape the games are the exact same thing
gritty northern european horror fantasy thrillers about fucked up little places, fate, religious symbolism, confusing af family trees, shady family-owned business, funny looking vintage sci fi machines, time travel and fucked up clans in fucked up little towns in the woods with goregous aesthetics ranging from victorian through 80s to modern, people dying, cave and old hotel, animals dying, a whole plethora of Torture Devices, experiments, a hard boiled detective that fucks around and *really* finds out, going to therapy but the therapist being just as fucked as you or straight up evil, cults and sacrifices, clocks, a Bad Vibes lake, a place called paradise, recurring symbolic geometry (the triquetra in dark and the cubes in rl) etc
nobody will ever convince me that these two donāt take place in the same universe (pun intended)
The freshman
Michel Groleau
Buster Keaton, and his flawless long & curly hair, in 3 H $   G $ N $ R 4 L realease date: New York City, february 5, 1927
The General is the film people remember even though itās not the laugh-fest many of Keatonās films were. Instead itās a character-driven war movie whose laughs come from situations and comic action scenes that arise naturally from the story while the physical ālookā of the film is absolutely consistent with the photographic record we have of the Civil War; at times it looks as if the pictures of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner have come to life before our eyes. With his hair grown out to be historically authentic, Keaton was never more beautiful physically, and the incredible attention he paid to detail in making this movie, down to choosing his location in Oregon because it was the only place he could find a railroad that still ran on the narrow-gauge track used during the Civil War, or his artful use of a true story as a framework for his film, only add to the entertainment value. (ā¦)Ā
It was a ground-breaking film that, like the Marx Brothersā Duck Soup, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Vertigo and many other films that flopped at their original release and later became acknowledged classics, needed time to catch up to it. āMark Gabrish Conlan
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