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Watch Buster Keaton, in the 19 short films and 11 silent features he made between 1920 and 1928. Watch his beautiful, compact body as it pirouettes or pretzels in tortured permutations or, even more elegantly, stands in repose as everything goes crazy around it. Watch his mind as it contemplates a hostile universe whose violent whims Buster understands, withstands and, miraculously, tames. Watch his camera taking his picture (Keaton directed or supervised all his best films); it is as cool as the star it captured in its glass...
...Keaton would have been 100 this week--he starred in his first film 75 years ago--but his work requires no scholar's indulgence for antique art. It is fresh and universally funny. Watch, laugh and marvel: this is movie comedy as it should...
...good news is that for the first time since they were new, you can see Keaton's films without having to peer through the accumulated crud of illegal dupings. Among many centennial tributes, including Marion Meade's thorough, poignant new biography, Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase (HarperCollins), the best present is Kino Video's release of 10 cassettes that include all the great works, spiffily restored. amc, the cable movie network, will show the whole oeuvre on Oct. 4, Keaton's birthday...
...somehow Diane Keaton, directing her first fictional feature, gets us safely through a movie that could have turned to mush at any moment. She knows how to touch on an emotion without squeezing every last tear out of it. She knows how to get a laugh without bringing down the whole fragile edifice of her film. She is helped a lot by a terrific cast, which understands that playing madness is very serious business, and by Richard LaGravenese's wonderfully modulated script. From The Fisher King through A Little Princess and The Bridges of Madison County, he has demonstrated...
...Diane Keaton's first fictional feature suggests that early, massive exposure to eccentricity can be the best possible preparation for the life that follows. This lesson comes hard to 12-year-old Steven Lidz (Nathan Watt), whose mother Selma (Andie MacDowell) is dying slowly and bravely of cancer. His cranky, obsessive father Sid (John Turturro) is of little consolation. It's up to Sid's kooky brothers Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) and Arthur (Maury Chaykin) to get Steven safely through his first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood. "Helped by terrific acting and Richard La Gravenese's wonderfully modulated...