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Screen Savour

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Devoted to the enjoyment of contemporary and classic cinema

• Added on: Aug 18th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: ScreenSavour
• Listed in: Cinema Writing

Recent Posts

• Awards Season, 2009 Edition.

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 14:08

  Leading the pack as usual, today the National Board of Review has unveiled its list of the year's best (American) films. Awards Season is now in full swing — cue up the critics in the gallery.I have split feelings on this time of year. I tend to vi...

• The General (1927)

  Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 21:39 in buster keaton, national film registry, silent films

  d. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton / USA / 75 mins."It's got to be so authentic it hurts," Buster Keaton is to have said to his staff before they began production on The General, his late-era silent comedy about a powerful locomotive and its haple...

• Battling Butler (1926)

  Posted on Saturday August 22nd, 2009 at 01:15 in buster keaton, silent films

  d. Buster Keaton / USA / 71 mins.Warning: Spoilers.It was a simple and winning formula: Buster loves a girl but she doesn't quite feel the same, so he must embark on a journey that turns rather perilous, proving not only his love to her but his abili...

• Go West (1925)

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 22:28 in buster keaton, silent films

  d. Buster Keaton / USA / 69 mins.Around the midpoint of Buster Keaton's western comedy Go West, our hero — a man from the east who is out of his element in the frontier, descriptively named Friendless — is asked to brand the cow for whom he has d...

• Seven Chances (1925)

  Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 14:53 in buster keaton, silent films

  d. Buster Keaton / USA / 56 mins.On the whole, Buster Keaton's films tended to be developed as original screenplays, with gags, scenes, or broad themes worked out well before he knew exactly what was going to happen in a narrative. Sherlock Jr. was t...

• The Navigator (1924)

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 08:11 in buster keaton, silent films

  d. Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton / USA / 60 mins.Buster Keaton, much like silent comedy's mega-star Charles Chaplin, liked to improvise, and perhaps his most expensive improvisation was The Navigator, a film that had all of its pieces before it kn...

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darkspark

a great blog for fans of cinema and tv.your reviews and commendations make for great leads for a movie buff like me.

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