Buster Keaton Movies

Buster Keaton's first feature film was a spoof on D.W. Griffith's 1916 masterpiece Intolerance.

With this work, Keaton began to display a dramatic sense to complement his comic sensibility -- like The General, it is built with the integrity of a high-adventure story.

Keaton's appreciation of the formal paradoxes of the medium is astounding; his observations on the relationship between film and the subconscious are groundbreaking and profound. And it's a laugh riot, too.

Keaton's master coup is in seizing Murnau's haunted ship as a gargantuan comic prop for a pair of stranded nitwits, who don't know what to do with it

Keaton transformed the material into his own brand of humor: from stage farce to snappy cinematic slapstick, with Buster turning verbal jokes into visual gags.

Buster Keaton is an able pantomimist; his morose and sensitive face commands a certain sympathy. We are, therefore, not absolutely unresponsive to his new comedy, Go West.

There's no room for Buster to stretch out; none of the rhythms are remotely like his own.

Brilliantly filmed and fueled with classic physical comedy, The General captures Buster Keaton at his timeless best.

The movie is worth seeing for a lot of reasons, one of them being the weirdly elegant pratfall Keaton takes on the baseball diamond when he gets clipped by an opposing player sliding into third.

If your faith in humanity needs a little pick-me-up, there's no better place to start.

Studio interference damaged the film but could not destroy it.

Words can hardly tell of the relief it was to look at Mr. Keaton's imaginative but silly silent antics in his latest farce, Spite Marriage.

This is a generous tip of the hat to the dawn of cinema, which should appeal to any movie lover.