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...“In the 21st century, Chaplin remains popular but is no longer fashionable,” Eyman writes, contending that critics today prefer “the apolitical, slightly autistic comic character of Buster Keaton . . ....
...Buster Keaton is in the kitchen. He’s my waiter for the evening. I’m doing the cooking myself but Samin Nosrat is giving me a hand....
...Just every now and then, he and Pálmason channel the ghost of Buster Keaton, a comic whose hallmark joke was an indifferent world making punchlines out of people....
...It isn’t just how much Cruise resembles Buster Keaton in slapstick moments....
...He cites among his influences Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati, both of whom could spin blissful comic business out of almost anything....
...(He is, he says happily, a huge fan of Buster Keaton.) As well as speaking after Seyðisfjörður, we meet in the London office of Godland’s UK distributor....
...Even Buster Keaton was a nepo baby, for Christ’s sake. Nepo babies have been a fundamental part of our existence since . . . forever, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably someone else’s son....
...Their creators cite silent film idols including Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as influences, and deliver a blizzard of visual gags to global audiences....
...As well as being a gifted vaudevillian and mime artist, though given to lachrymose sentimentality (I’ve always been team Buster Keaton), he was also an older parent....
...Once on, Hunter and Magni present a richly strange little couple — she resembling an ageing Shirley Temple, he calling to mind Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin — marooned centre stage amid a baroque arrangement...
...Comparisons between Suleiman and Buster Keaton come easily, his stone-face impeccable. The next gag along has a touch of Keaton too, thugs with baseball bats massed behind him until . . ....
...For Dr Semmelweis, he’s channelling something of Buster Keaton’s mute expressiveness....
...His brand of gymnastic mayhem owes more to Buster Keaton than Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the movie is a string of doolally stunts involving double-decker buses and endless shattered glass that were both...
...Buster Keaton wasn’t even first across the ground with Sherlock Jr in 1924, although he did it with such invention as to become the benchmark....
...Walsh, a mischievous and funny presence himself, says he admires actors like Buster Keaton and relishes drama that is joyous and risky....
...His films have often been compared to those of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati but he professes to have seen the work of neither until after he made Chronicle of a Disappearance....
...In Berlin, Sebastian Schipper (Victoria) is alone for a time at least, a sliver of story taking on a droll, Buster Keaton-ish aspect. These days, we take our laughs where we can....
...Elsewhere, when Pattinson is alone, the film has the purity of Buster Keaton, Winslow reduced to a stick figure, executing chores in a horizontal gale on a sodden rock in an ocean that hates him....
...In early films, McQueen made himself forcefully visible, homaging a Buster Keaton stunt for instance, or wrestling naked with another man....
...As a child, Akram Khan was first inspired to move by Bruce Lee, Michael Jackson, Fred Astaire and Buster Keaton, practising in his father’s garage, its concrete forming his first dance floor....
...Warm, a dandy from overseas dressed like some transnational Buster Keaton, has patented an invention for swifter gold-sifting in rivers. The invention turns deadly....
...If the genius of Buster Keaton lay in films about one individual against the world — in the course of 1922’s Cops, Keaton did end up killed — Laurel had Hardy and Hardy had Laurel....
...Our heroes were Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Samuel Beckett. We selected costumes that made us look — and feel — laughable. I wore a bald-cap that transformed my head into an egg....
...Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes , by Maggie Hennefeld, Columbia University Press, RRP£24/$30 When we think about slapstick, the image that comes to mind is likely to be male — Buster Keaton...
...“Marcello is a modern Buster Keaton. It was a silent movie sometimes, the way he played with the dogs....
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