Viewed December 27, 2006
Three Ages is an ambitious comedy from Buster Keaton, where he strives to show how love has changed (but mostly stayed the same) throughout the ages. He does this by illustrating three cases of love: a caveman, a Roman citizen and a modern day man (well, modern for 1923, anyway).
All three […]
Viewed August 5, 2006
Alice’s Wonderland is the first in a series of ‘Alice’ films that Walt Disney made in his early days and that marked his first major success (he would make over fifty during the series’ five year run). What made the ‘Alice’ films so unique for their day was the way that […]
Viewed July 22, 2006
The Balloonatic is a rather trite little entry in Bustern Keaton’s series of shorts. A typical series of sight gags, it lacks the more detailed storyline found in Keaton’s better shorts.
Basically, we follow Buster as he finds himself (after a few initial escapades) trapped on a hot air balloon and then […]
Viewed May 9, 2006
A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor is an early talkie short that basically features Cantor doing his act for the camera.
The real problem is, he obviously is used to interacting with the audience and this is totally lost when recorded in this way. After most of the jokes, he paused for […]
Viewed May 6, 2006
Dogs of War is a wonderful entry in the ‘Our Gang’ series of films, this time from the silent era. The ‘Our Gang’ series existed long before Spanky, Alfalfa and the rest who would become more famous as ‘The Little Rascals’ and this one is from their early peak in the […]