Michel Groleau

BUSTER KEATON (1925-1926)

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Ivor Novello goes Downhill (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)

Random Buster Keaton Scene (15/∞):  Sherlock Jr. (1924)

David Byrne accepting his Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs in 1985

"Hm. Hm."

"Eeh ooh weou"

"Well thanks! I'd like to thank MTV for showing my work and a lot of other people's work in a laundromat."

*david byrne noises*

"There's an astronaut in my laundry. Thank you for this award."

"Hey, wonder what happened to Karen?"

"Well hey! Thanks! Thank you for this award. Thank you for showing my work and the work of a lot of other people and giving it a chance to be seen. I'm going home."

BUSTER KEATON (1923-1924)

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Buster Keaton, and his flawless long & curly hair, in  Ｔ Ｈ Ｅ    Ｇ Ｅ Ｎ Ｅ Ｒ Ａ Ｌ realease date: New York City, february 5, 1927

The General is the film people remember even though it’s not the laugh-fest many of Keaton’s films were. Instead it’s a character-driven war movie whose laughs come from situations and comic action scenes that arise naturally from the story while the physical “look” of the film is absolutely consistent with the photographic record we have of the Civil War; at times it looks as if the pictures of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner have come to life before our eyes. With his hair grown out to be historically authentic, Keaton was never more beautiful physically, and the incredible attention he paid to detail in making this movie, down to choosing his location in Oregon because it was the only place he could find a railroad that still ran on the narrow-gauge track used during the Civil War, or his artful use of a true story as a framework for his film, only add to the entertainment value. (…) 

It was a ground-breaking film that, like the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Vertigo and many other films that flopped at their original release and later became acknowledged classics, needed time to catch up to it. —Mark Gabrish Conlan

★★★★★

what

{2019} (better quality version here) Marta from Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste {2011}; from CINEWOMEN, a series of animation studies made with filmstills. (laser prints, charcoal)

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· Storm Clouds - Chickies · Weeping Willow II · Opening · Black Dog Pastel on museum board.

— Rob Evans (American, b.1959)

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