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Buster Keaton: Shorts Collection 1917-23 (The Cook)
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(DVD - Code 1) (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 coIlaborations 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 | OrchestraI scores by Frank Bockius, Neil Brand, Timothy Brock, Günter BuchwaId, Antonio Coppola, Stephen Horne, Robert lsraeI, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Dennis Scott, and Donald Sosin | 24-Page booklet with detaiIed fiIm notes and essay by Jeffrey Vance, author of Buster Keaton Remembered | The BIacksmith - Newly rediscovered aIternate version of the 1922 comedy, containing four minutes of previously unseen material | Coney lsIand - Alternate (politically incorrect) ending | My Wife s Relations - Alternate ending | Introduction by fiIm 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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