Brilliant in his studies and dismissive of athletics, Ronald (Buster Keaton) finishes high school at the top of his class. But in college his uptight attitude doesn't win him any points with his sports-loving classmates, and pretty coed Mary (Anne Cornwall) ignores him in favor of brutish jock Jeff (Harold …
A family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Despite the dated politics and romance, Fritz Lang's 1926 sci-fi satire establishes a clear line of descent to the likes of Blade Runner, Gattaca, Minority Report, what-you-will. Among the visual splendors of the movie: the sets and décors of the legendary UFA studios; the innovative compositing technique that came to …
Despite the dated politics and romance, Fritz Lang's 1926 sci-fi satire establishes a clear line of descent to the likes of Blade Runner, Gattaca, Minority Report, what-you-will. Among the visual splendors of the movie: the sets and décors of the legendary UFA studios; the innovative compositing technique that came to …
Thoroughly charming romantic comedy, excepting the slightly miscalculated and labored climax, about a five-and-dime stock girl (Mary Pickford) and the incognito heir of the company (Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who in real life would marry his co-star a decade later, upon her divorce from Douglas Fairbanks). Director Sam Taylor, better known …
None of the arguably better movies of 1927 would have presented quite so suitable a reclamation project for an impresario with as grandiose designs as Francis Ford Coppola. However: the swinging, waltzing, jiggling cameras, the dizzying panning shots, the split-screens, the superimpositions, the variegated tints, the machine-gun montage in the …
Another slice of Americana served by Buster Keaton, though he doesn't do as much with (or for) riverboats as he did with (and for) trains in The General. And the spectacular climactic cyclone, with Keaton doing a lovely pantomime of an acute-angled body fighting a wicked wind, is a long …
The image of rural American landscapes and buildings — plain, flat, hard-edged, like Keaton's face — provides a solid, sober backdrop to the misadventures of a Confederate Army reject who rescues a hijacked train from a Union raiding party. It's one of the funnier Keaton comedies, but you still might …