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| Cohen Media Group | Release Date: October 5, 2018 |
Starring:
Bill Hader, Bill Irwin, Buster Keaton, Carl Reiner, Cybill Shepherd, Dick Cavett, French Stewart, James Karen, Mel Brooks, Nick Kroll, Paul Dooley, Peter Bogdanovich, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Lewis, Werner Herzog
Summary:
The Great Buster celebrates the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. [Cohen Media Group]
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Oct 4, 2018
Sep 10, 2018
The mix of commentators is unusual and lively, hardly the usual crowd that often pops up in documentaries like this, the clips are illustrative and on point in addition to often being eye-popping, and the film looks certain to please Keaton aficionados. Most importantly, it's likely to induce newcomers to investigate the great stone face for themselves.
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Nov 6, 2018
Oct 3, 2018
The film presents a compact, tactful biography and also a valuable explication of the Keatonesque in its most sublime varieties. Coming ahead of a digital restoration of Keaton’s major films, it serves as both a primer and refresher, as well as a promise that he will not be forgotten.
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IndieWire
Sep 10, 2018
Keaton was an ahead-of-his-time innovator, and though Bogdanovich honors that legacy he doesn’t always live up to it: You’ll leave the film knowing more about its subject than you did when you walked in, but there’s little here that feels like it couldn’t be found in one of the many other accounts of Keaton’s life and work.
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Oct 4, 2018
Mar 9, 2021
This movie has good actors. The directing has a nice throwback style to it which is refreshing. While the movie is fine, it is also a very forgettable.
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