Tag: Buster Keaton

• Director’s Birthdays October First Week

  

  Here’s something slightly new. Let’s celebrate the director’s birthdays in the upcoming week. I’d like to continue with this for a year, but you never know where things will take you. Perhaps we should try to compare directors, I tried to do a comparison-similarities-differences thing with McCarey and Villeneuve, but it became kind of impossible.…

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  October 2, 2023

  Birthdays

  Buster Keaton, Denis VIlleneuve, Julien Duvivier, Leo McCarey, Mitchell Leisen, Rouben Mamoulian

• Sight & Sound – The Top 500 Films Of All Time – The 1910s & 1920s

  Suspense (#455) 1913, Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley, 0:10, USA, Thriller Suspense is an oft-cited entry in Weber’s filmography, primarily due to its historically significant use of split screen, but it is an often overlooked — if not outright ignored — important early film in horror history. And its central tale of a woman who hears…

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  March 8, 2023

  S&S Top 500 Films Of All Time

  Abel Gance, Buster Keaton, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Dziga Vertov, Erich von Stroheim, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, G.W. Pabst, King Vidor, Lois Weber, Lotte Reiniger, Luis Bunuel, Robert Wiene, Sergei Eisenstein, Teinosuke Kinugasa