Buster Keaton

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM — its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its ...

A celebration of the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose ...

Inheriting a film collection of home movies after the death of a relative, a film director recounts his life and the women he loved while ...

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom. How, in the space of a few years, did this ...

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from ...

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.

An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of ...

From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, ...

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O’Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to ...

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks ...

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest – one woman from each state of the United States – are welcomed to Palm Springs. ...

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into ...

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets ...

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she’ll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he’s hiring a new ...

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he ...

The just out of college effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he’s not seen since he was little.

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray’s beloved locomotive, ‘The General’—with Johnnie’s ...

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl’s heart.

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday — which is today — he’ll ...

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the ...

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s ...

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O’Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo ...

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry ...

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his.

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he’s caught by pirates.

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in ...

This satirical parody of William S. Hart’s melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, “last stop on the subway.” He ...

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, Buster goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various ...

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he ...

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith’s shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several ...

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white ...

Buster Keaton is a bank teller who becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters, and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.

Buster’s handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it ...

Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer’s daughter.

Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich. His son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady ...

The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, ...

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia’s families hating each other over the fence ...

Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half ...

The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a train and chased by Indians. He teams up with ...