Buster Keaton

More Lorry Driver Urban Legends Posted By : Lyall Cresswell

Ive written about lorry driver urban legends before, but they just keep cropping up all over the internet. Im not sure quite why lorry drivers and their vehicles often seem to be at the centre of these kinds of stories - my...

Have You Seen … ? (David Thomson)

Book Reviews: San Francisco film historian David Thomson has added yet another tome to his groaning board of must-own film books. Old-fashioned in its tree-destroying simplicity, "Have You Seen … ?" is 1,000 one-page reviews...

HESPERUS: The Gen... - Stockton, CA

HESPERUS, the award-winning, world-travelled chamber group from Arlington, VA will accompany Buster Keaton's 1925 classic film THE GENERAL with a live score of music from the American Civil War at The Stockton Empire Theatre...

A Movie A Day: IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963) I’m not entirely certain you haven’t damaged...

Ahoy, squirts! These people are Sid Caeser (who we follow over from yesterday’s misfire William Castle comedy THE BUSY BODY), Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett, leaving wives and mothers-in-law up...

DVD: Abbott and Costello Collection

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello never really got their due during their lives. Oh, they made tons of money for Universal Pictures, and their films enjoyed enormous popular success. But, more often than not,...

A Frances Farmer retrospective in her home burg, West Seattle

A Frances Farmer retrospective at the Admiral Theatre pays tribute to the actress and West Seattle native who died in 1970. "Come & Get It," the 1936 comedy which established Farmer as a star, screens Nov. 7.

Bite into more than cinema at Olympia Film Festival

Pick filmmakers' minds, attend a gala and let kids explore animation By Molly Gilmore | For The Olympian • Published November 06, 2008 The most exciting part of the 25th annual Olympia Film Festival quite likely isn't the...

Hunger - Cinema Three 1510 / Cinema One 1800, 2030

Celebrated visual artist McQueen won the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes with his feature film debut, an intense, powerful and timely exploration of Bobby Sands’ 1981 hunger strike at Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.

Craig loves playing darker Bond

Jamie Portman , Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, November 06, 2008 TORONTO -- Daniel Craig doesn't want anyone to assume that he's still recovering from injuries suffered during the filming of Quantum Of Solace. In...

An exciting step into the future as guest conductor arrives

Stephen Prutsman is starting off his campaign to become the next artistic director of Music in the Mountains with a pre-concert meet and greet party on Friday, the first time music lovers will get to see him up close and personal.