Pure catnip. In Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life, James Curtis offers a detailed portrait of the comedian who smiled so seldom he was known as "The Great Stone Face." Camera Man by Dana Stevens ...

In 2022, he was the subject of two excellent biographies, James Curtis’s Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life and Dana Steven’s Cameraman. Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise, needless to say, are admirers.

Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers ... must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is resisting chattel marriage, by furtively observing her.

(“Buster Keaton’s Stroll” also appeared in Thomas ... sensually brings to life Stevens’s mournful and elliptical portrait of love grown distant and distrustful. The Reader is free.

Peter Bogdanovich's doc 'The Great Buster: A Celebration ... Bogdanovich’s vastly entertaining portrait will presumably serve as an anchor for Keaton seasons on screens large and small in ...

Initially in a series of innovative two-reelers, then at feature length, Keaton honed his cinematic chops and shaped his ...