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    The Great Buster: A Celebration (Documentary)

    Caught this last night... Brilliant!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLiRLN_EKu8
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Where is this available to watch?

    Keaton was a master of filmmaking and comedic performance. A while back I watched a whole bunch of his shorts via Sky Arts, and it's masterful stuff that's still hilarious today - the sheer craft and precision and inventiveness that went into his films is mind boggling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Where is this available to watch?

    Keaton was a master of filmmaking and comedic performance. A while back I watched a whole bunch of his shorts via Sky Arts, and it's masterful stuff that's still hilarious today - the sheer craft and precision and inventiveness that went into his films is mind boggling.
    I caught it on Sky Arts on regular TV channels (in the UK).

    Ironically, I couldn't find it on Sky

    Or... it's of course available via yaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Did a search on Sky and found it there on demand (available until the end of January IIRC).

    Anyway - excellent documentary and well worth checking out. It was great to examine some of the inventiveness and stunts behind his famous shorts and features, but it was also interesting to see the course of his life with its ups and downs, and particularly interesting to see how he came back as a personality on television shows where they pulled candid pranks - that bit where he's at the counter in some diner doing a whole series of 'clumsy' goofs next to unsuspecting patrons was great as it kept escalating, but he played it all so wonderfully in that deadpan befuddlement that he was so good at.
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    I remember this from my childhood (made years before I was born mind), not knowing who Buster Keaton was...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiqqxyZeDXo
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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