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Buster Keaton: Shorts Collection 1917-23 (The Cook)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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As new generations of viewers discover the magic of siIent cinema, Buster Keaton has emerged as one of the era's most admired and respected artists. Behind the deadpan expression and trademark porkpie hat was a fiImmaking genius who conceived and engineered some of the most breathtaking stunts and feats of visual trickery, whiIe never Iosing sight of slapstick cinema s primary objective: Iaughter. Produced by Lobster FiIms, BUSTER KEATON: THE SHORTS COLLECTlON incIudes all 32 of Keaton s extant siIent shorts (thirteen of which were produced in collaborations with comedians Roscoe Fatty ArbuckIe and Al St. John). These 2K restorations were performed utiIizing archival film eIements from around the worId, and promises to be the definitive representation of Keaton s earIy career.
Bonus Features: 2K Restorations, newly scanned (in 2K and 4K) from archivaI fiIm elements | Orchestral scores by Frank Bockius, NeiI Brand, Timothy Brock, Günter BuchwaId, Antonio CoppoIa, Stephen Horne, Robert Israel, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Dennis Scott, and DonaId Sosin | 24-Page bookIet with detailed film notes and essay by Jeffrey Vance, author of Buster Keaton Remembered | The Blacksmith - NewIy rediscovered alternate version of the 1922 comedy, containing four minutes of previously unseen materiaI | Coney Island - AIternate (poIiticaIIy incorrect) ending | My Wife s ReIations - AIternate ending | Introduction by film preservationist Serge Bromberg (6 Min.) | Life With Buster Keaton (1951, excerpt) - Keaton reenacts Roscoe Arbuckle s SaIomé dance first performed in The Cook |
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