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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhy Buster Keaton is today's most influential actor - BBC

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   Jan 24, 2022 · (Credit: Getty Images) The silent-film star's deadpan style combined with his kinetic energy have inspired today's most acclaimed stars, from Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver to Awkwafina. Nicole Davis...

2. chicagoreader.com › blogs › peter-bogdanovichPeter Bogdanovich explains why Buster Keaton still matters

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   Oct 18, 2018 · This year the 54th Chicago International Film Festival spotlights Buster Keaton, one of the top comedians and directors of the silent era, with The Great Buster, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

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   Is Buster Keaton still a fitting response to modern life?

   • The silent-film star's deadpan style combined with his kinetic energy have inspired today's most acclaimed stars, from Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver to Awkwafina. Nicole Davis explores why the actor and filmmaker's style is still a fitting response to modern life. Buster Keaton was something of an enigma to his own era.

   Why Buster Keaton is today's most influential actor - BBC

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   Was Buster Keaton ahead of his time?

   • As Slate's movie critic and author Dana Stevens points out in Camera Man, a new biography-meets-cultural-history about Buster Keaton and the birth of the 20th Century, " [Keaton] was ahead of his time in many ways". It is exactly this prescience and timelessness that makes Buster Keaton a figure ripe for reference in contemporary performance.

   Why Buster Keaton is today's most influential actor - BBC

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   Is camera man a biography of Buster Keaton?

   • Its scope is evident in its title: Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. To cover this ground, Stevens deftly remixes the idea of the biography, which by definition focuses on a single individual and almost unavoidably implies a disproportionate picture of the subject’s significance.

   Camera Man: Dana Stevens on the Life and Times of Buster Keaton

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   Was Buster Keaton a part of 'silent cinema'?

   • And it really wasn't until the late '40s - and specifically because of an article that appeared in Life by the film critic James Agee that was all about silent cinema and rediscovering it and Buster Keaton was a big part of it and, you know, also just the fact that he was still around doing TV, you know, starting to get attention again.

   'Camera Man' unspools the colorful life of silent film star Buster Keaton

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4. www.slashfilm.com › 934987What Happened To Buster Keaton? His Hollywood Rise ... - /Film

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   Jul 21, 2022 · In the mid-30s Keaton suffered a nervous breakdown and went to rehab. Tail between his legs, he returned to MGM as a gag-writer at 10% of his former salary. There, he worked with the famous comedy ...

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5. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2022/01/31What Made Buster Keaton’s Comedy So Modern? - The New Yorker

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   Jan 24, 2022 · Books. What Made Buster Keaton’s Comedy So Modern? Whereas Chaplin’s vision was essentially theatrical, Keaton’s was specific to the screen—he moved like the moving pictures. By Adam...

6. www.npr.org › 2023/03/10 › 1162539511'Camera Man' unspools the colorful life of silent film ... - NPR

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   Mar 10, 2023 · She's written a new book about Buster Keaton. It's called "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, The Dawn Of Cinema And The Invention Of The 20th Century." So let's talk a bit about Buster's personal life ...

7. www.rogerebert.com › interviews › how-history-movesHow History Moves Through a Life: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton

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   Feb 18, 2022 · An interview with Dana Stevens about Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century.

8. www.rogerebert.com › features › camera-man-danaCamera Man: Dana Stevens on the Life and Times of Buster Keaton

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   Jan 28, 2022 · While some biographies claim a “life and times” approach, Stevens actually delivers, with enthralling descriptions of Keaton’s contemporaries, those he worked with and those who could be considered his competition, and with discussions of the changes in culture, show business, and technology as well as the fundamentals of cinematic ...