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Producer/ director/ star Buster Keaton’s clever and hilarious, classic silent comedy showcases a stressed-out Buster as nearly bankrupt financial broker Jimmie Shannon, who has to find himself a spouse within a few hours to receive […]
Director Charles F Reisner’s 1928 comedy is the last great Buster Keaton silent movie. It takes its place along with The General (1926) at the peak of his creativity. All involved in the film agreed that he […]
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1952 drama with music Limelight is a beautiful film, incredibly poignant, extremely sentimental and nostalgic, but almost unbearably moving both for itself and as an encapsulation of the star’s life. The pairing […]
Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1949 hit is a genial and jovial musical remake version of the play (by Miklos Lazslo) and the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner. This time it’s Judy Garland’s turn […]
Buster Keaton stars in this 1926 unchallenged silent comic masterpiece, set in the American Civil War and based on a real incident as told in the story The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittinger. A hugely-admired masterpiece as […]
Gloria Swanson triumphs as Norma Desmond, an unbalanced, faded ageing former movie star, in Billy Wilder’s eerily dark, deliciously bitter and wryly humorous 1950 film noir classic Sunset Blvd. ‘All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready […]
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