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Summer School Film Series screens "The General" with Buster Keaton and "The Pool Shark," W.C. Fields' first. Sunday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m. Admission free. Science Center...
Special Showings: Buster Keaton's The Navigator is playing for free at sundown tonight at the MFA. Gutman Library is showing Terry-Thomas's hysterical Make Mine Mink Thursday night...
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...
...interest in classical ballet. This evening's showing is a triple feature, high-lighted by a film-record of Nijinsky performing "Afternoon of a Faun;" simply incomparable. Movies of ballet tend to get a little boring and admittedly nothing can match the excitement of an original performance, but like Keaton, performers of Nijinsky's brilliance are too good to lose to passing time. Admission to the three films, which begin at 8, is 50 cents...
Play It Again Sam and Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? are being co-featured at the Orson Welles Cinema I until Saturday. Woody Allen's take-off on the Casablanca theme is not only hysterically funny, it's heart-rending as well. Both Allen and Diane Keaton give lovely performances here. This one is worth watching again and again. Where's Poppa? is usually pretty tasteless and it belabors an already overworn joke to the point of tedium. In all fairness, though, the movie has its moments. Complete shows start...