Word: keaton
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...glides shoreward, the ship is taking on water and has nearly sunk by the time it reaches land--allowing Jack to step lithely, blithely and with Astaire timing from the crow's nest onto the Port Royal dock. This little scene, reminiscent of a visual gag in a Buster Keaton silent comedy, comes at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, cuing audiences to the suspense, grace and fun of the next two hours...
From the medium's infancy, when the Keystone Kops commandeered the streets of Los Angeles, car chases provided the purest vicarious thrill. Silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd raised vehicular mayhem to comic art. Alfred Hitchcock fashioned suspenseful laughs by letting an inebriated Cary Grant try driving down a windy road in North by Northwest--and predatory poignancy when James Stewart obsessively tails Kim Novak in Vertigo...
...movies on the road. He dispatched eight teams of projectionists around the country in what he calls cinema caravans-cars loaded with video projectors, amplifiers and screens-which stopped in every town to show not only the educational films but also old classics such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton reels. The outdoor screenings were a hit, and the projectionists stayed up late into the nights, showing the movies over and over. "My people have been waiting such a long time to laugh after so much suffering and tragedy," says Barmak. "Our technical guys cried. It was the first time...
...Keaton Zucker scored on a breakaway midway through the period to keep Brown within two goals, and the Bears remained competitive until McAuliffe’s shorthanded goal at 16:24 of the second period shifted the tide for good...
...comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure. From the Santa Claus who gets a cleaver in his chest to the Israeli cop who relies on a blindfolded Arab prisoner to give directions to a stranger, the film mixes the deadpan delight of Buster Keaton's classics with the elegant image framing of a Robert Bresson tragedy...