Buster Keaton

DVD holiday gift guide

Since DVDs really are the "gifts that keep on giving" - through multiple viewings, and you don't even have to rewind - they make excellent holiday choices. But you don't need me to tell you that such recent hit movies as...

Silents That Are Truly Golden

David Edelstein On New DVD Releases Of Buster Keaton's "General" And Other Classics Buster Keaton in "The General." (United Artists ) (CBS) As fans of old-time movies such as "The General" with Buster Keaton will tell you,...

Tilda Swinton: 'I'm not interested in acting skills'

What makes Tilda Swinton such a uniquely paradoxical screen presence? Simply this: she seems not altogether of this earth, yet she can be more downright earthy, even grubby, than just about any screen personality you can name.

Burke's Law: Season One Volume Two

Highly Recommended The Movie:Burke's Law is one of those mid-60s cop shows that never was a gigantic hit, but which was successful enough to eke out two and a half seasons (its last half-season as the retooled Amos Burke,...

LAistory: Fatty Arbuckle

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle had the dubious distinction of being the movie business' first scandal. Born in Kansas in 1887, Roscoe Arbuckle (who only used the name "Fatty" professionally, and otherwise detested it) was catapulted...

Classics from world cinema

Palador is all set to independently release seven World Cinema titles from its vast collection. For this, Palador has joined hands with Landmark, Music World and Crossword, some of the leading retail stores, along with...

Antiestablishment artists well established

''No one tells you no: If I wanted to take the roof off, they'd let me.'' That operating philosophy is why experimental filmmaker Clifton Childree adores Wynwood's Locust Projects. It's why he believes his recent Dream-Cum-Tru...

Gamers can practice their parkouring in Mirror's Edge

Mirror's Edge is the game that excites Game Dork Doug Elfman more than any other this year. It is a fresh action-adventure that offers something new to the gaming world. It is beautifully drawn. And it is very fun.

Walden troupers make comedy from scratch

A tumbling cop, a wisenheimer servant and a miserly womanizer are a sampling of the comic characters who appear in a new show created by Walden Theatre students. In "Feast of Fools," the young actors put a 21st-century spin on...

Hulu for film geeks? Criterion Collection launches new streaming-video "online cinemateque"!

Spoiler alert: if you're a film geek, the rest of your work day is about to go up in flames. Criterion launched a long-awaited new web site this morning, taking the first step towards digital distribution for the most coveted...

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