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Sherlock Junior, a 1924 Buster Keaton comedy, is being shown tonight as part of the Museum of Fine Art's summer-long tribute to the great stone face. Of all the comic stars of the silent screen, Keaton was the funniest, the most sensitive, the most intelligent. He is, above all, too good to lose, and the MFA deserves praise for resurrecting his genius. Tonight's film is about "a humble movie projectionist who is transformed into a master detective thanks to the magic of the silver screen." It's showing with Keaton's The Paleface. With great movies like...
...ideologically weak. If you're going to make the trek down to Central, you're much better off with a great Woody Allen double feature next door. Sleeper is his tightest work to date, precise, hilarious and painstakingly mapped out. Bananas, where Allen apotheosizes the machismo theme, is the funniest thing he's done...
...film's funniest portions belong neither to Astaire nor Kelly nor to any of the meticulously choreographed clown scenes of the '50s. In clip after clip, they are outdone by unintentional comedy. The Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald epic Rose Marie (1936) offers the couple known to Hollywood as the Singing Capon and the Iron Butterfly in a Canadian Mountie scene that must be heard to be disbelieved. Even in the '40s, MGM knew that there were different strokes for different folks. Esther Williams could do them all, in a series of swimming-pool epics that for elaborate...
...loosely, relying on a casualness that often lets the show get by as a friendly get-together rather than a plausible dramatic situation. The intital comedy, evolving around a buzzing airplane, establishes Andy Rosann's Bill as the comic of the group-the man who creates the funniest gags, and makes the even funnier gestures. Gradually the rest of the cookout's participants warm up to Bill's level with Cindy Cardon's Pat and Lorenzo Mariani's Howard forming a chilling team of innocence and brutality...
...Ballou is the funniest Western; Greasers' Palace was made by the guy who made Putney Swope; I can't figure out why Tarzan would want to go to England...