Buster Keaton + letterboxd reviews by @ennaih💕
Terry Jones in a script conference for BBC television show ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, 1974 | Photos: Chris Ridley/Radio Times via Getty Images
Silent star profiles.
Top left - bottom right: Ivor Novello, Ramon Novarro, Sessue Hayakawa, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Farrell, John Barrymore, Lars Hanson, Buster Keaton.
Winter landscape with convent church, 1859 - oil on canvas — Carl Hilgers (German, 1818 -1890)
i have never seen anyone look so much like one of those dancing wind sock people before
I almost choked on my drink when he said this
MTV ‘87
B E A U T Y :: by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
what
Unbelievable to me that Buster Keaton isn't already a tumblr sexyman
he's cute as hell
yes, that's buster, catching a lit cigarette. I don't want to know how many takes this took
3. literally nobody, NOBODY in the game has done it as well as buster. he is where bugs bunny gets all his style
he's an athlete. he's a stooge. he performed from the time he could walk. he's brilliant. he never breaks. he wins you over instantly. he dances like this:
seriously, go watch him bust a move. or this one, it's my favorite. all his shit is free, it's under an hour, it's incredible and none of it feels like eating your vegetables or forcing yourself to watch "film history"
he's just funny. he just "got" film comedy in a time when most directors were still trying to figure out how far out to put the camera.