That awkward moment when you’re trying to show your friend something cool on tumblr that you ‘liked’ a while back and you end up scrolling through ten gazillion pages of Buster Keaton posts.
“It was his birthday a few days ago so there were a lot of photos I hadn’t seen before that’s all.”
“Buster Keaton is considered one of the greatest comic actors of all time. His influence on physical comedy is rivaled only by Charlie Chaplin. Like many of the great actors of the silent era, Keaton’s work was cast into near obscurity for many years. Only toward the end of his life was there a renewed interest in his films. An acrobatically skillful and psychologically insightful actor, Keaton made dozens of short films and fourteen major silent features, attesting to one of the most talented and innovative artists of his time.” PBS. This is a list of Buster Keaton’s surviving films; shorts and feature-length. Many television show appearances, “lost films,” several shorts from 1930-40s, and foreign films are not included because they are not available online. If you find something online, that I’ve missed, feel free to let me know. I have checked all these links! if you have a problem, let me know! Now, Enjoy!
No other comedian could do as much with the dead-pan. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things; a one track mind near the track’s end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood. — James Agee in LIFE magazine
The screen was just a white sheet. They had this flickering machine. That was the first time I saw this angel with a white face and these beautiful eyes. I knew this was something special. It was the first time I saw him. He wore a flat pancake of a hat, and I just couldn’t believe the man’s grace. —Mel Brooks
The older Keaton got, the more one could see eternity in his look. — Robert Benayoun
Buster Keaton … will be around forever, because it’s unlikely that human beings will ever go out-of-date the way special effects do. Keaton running and clambering onto a moving Civil War train in The General is infinitely more exciting than Christian Slater jumping from a helicopter onto a speeding locomotive in Broken Arrow because what Keaton does is real, and the camera captures and preserves his feats for posterity. In Broken Arrow we never see Slater (or the stuntman, for that matter) leaping from the helicopter to the train. Instead there are several cuts, and we must suspend our disbelief and assume that the feat has been accomplished. Which means that it’s no feat at all. — Anthony Puccinelli
Happy Birthday to the greatest, most innovative, and most genius figure in all of film. Today, we tip our pork pies to you. | Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton (4 Oct. 1895 - 1 Feb. 1966)
Project Keaton is a special month long forum in which artists, writers and regular Joes from all over the world are being invited to tip their pork pie to Buster. The goal is to foster a month of creative exchange, with Buster as muse. There are no rules as to content: essays, reviews, art, critiques, tributes, prose, poetry, all are welcome. And, since it is a month long forum, there are no pressing deadlines: participants may contribute as little or as much as they wish any time at all during the course of October.
DAMNIT.
Can’t you just wait two more months I just made a film after the guy D: