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...grey landscape, bare horizon, the tone of a silence between phrases, the quality of an incompleteness. Imagination is dead--except for the imagination of how it would be without imagination. The late Beckett works grow more and more indeterminate, and the masks of the characters more featureless. It is Buster Keaton, "The Great Stone Face", who stars in Beckett's only film script--and even the title is unwilling to commit itself to anything more specific than Film. In the thirty-five second long Breath, the only elements are rubbish and recorded cries and breaths. (This sequence, Alvarez somewhat startlingly...
...linebackers will be Bob Kristoff, Sandy Tennant and Eric Kurzweil. Kurzweil has been a ball-buster in his first two games, playing with a savvy and abandon that belies his sophomore status...
...never develops any dramatic tension within them, partly because he seems to have no firm attitude toward them. Modernism was an actively malevolent force in Chaplin's Modern Times; Tati sees it as nothing more than a minor nuisance. His greatest problem, however, is that unlike Chaplin-or Buster Keaton-he hasn't the faintest idea of how to link one gag to another, building the kind of comic line that tightens, tightens, tightens around them and ensnares the audience in analogous helplessness, the kind that results from masterfully orchestrated laughter...
GUND HALL: 7:00 Project Gasbuggy, 7:15 Newsparade of 1937, 7:25 Buster Keaton in Coney Island, 7:45 Gerald McBoing Boing, 7:55 Bambi Meets Godzilla, 8:00 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara, 9:37 This is War...? with the Marx Brothers, 9:47 Pas de Deux, 10:07 Gertie the Dinosaur, 10:07 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, Balloonatic by Buster Keaton, and French CanCan by Jean Renoir, May 10, 8 $1, Faust by F.W. Murnau, with Emil Jannings...