Great Buster
In 'The Great Buster,' Bogdanovich has provided a brilliantly enthralling primer.
The Great Buster
THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION follows the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and prolific output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.
Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films from the Cohen Film Classics library, THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian whose landmark writings and films on such renowned directors as John Ford and Orson Welles have become the standard by which all other studies are measured.
Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films from the Cohen Film Classics library, THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian whose landmark writings and films on such renowned directors as John Ford and Orson Welles have become the standard by which all other studies are measured.
Genre
Documentary,
Films & Filmmakers
Runtime
102
Language
English
Director
Peter Bogdanovich
Awards:
Winner, Venezia Classici Award, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Alan Scherstuhl, L.A. Weekly
“It may not have been Houdini who said it, but what the hell,” Peter Bogdanovich says, in the voice of the Official Narrator, early in his joyous 'The Great Buster: A Celebration.' He’s referring to the claim that the name Buster came from Harry Houdini, a friend of Keaton’s vaudevillian parents ...
Played at
Glendale 10.26.18 - 11.01.18
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