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Article: Buster Keaton Brought Magic To His Movies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 17, 1995
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NEW YORK Buster Keaton was born 100 years ago this fall, and the best
way to celebrate would be to find a theater showing his movies. If
that isn't possible, you can, at long last, watch his best work on
video.
Keaton's film catalog was tied up for years through wrangling
over his estate. Now, Kino on Video has issued a three-volume box
set, much of which has never been available in this format.
The prints, for the most part, are of excellent quality, and the
new soundtracks, written in authentic period style, do a fine job of
evoking Keaton's distinctive world.
Included are all the shorts and feature-length silents, usually
running about an hour, that Keaton made as an independent ...