| Cinefamily's 2nd Annual Comedy Festival / all throughout June! |
Festival co-sponsored by Filter Magazine, UCB Theater and The Comedy Store
6/30 @ 8:00pm / Series: The Silent Clowns
 Buster Keaton Shorts
"Keaton's face ranked with Lincoln's as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was irreducibly funny...No one could do as much with the deadpan." - James Agee, "Comedy's Greatest Era"
Buster Keaton was a born showman, a master of both understated whimsical comic touches and elaborate physical stunts, the ingeniousness and bravado of which still easily shock and thrill audiences over eighty years later. He was also his own greatest prop, putting his person through a harrowing, yet hysterical unending series of near-calamities, all of them performed for real, without stunt doubles, at a time when Jackie Chan's father was still in diapers! Buster's sharp attention to detail also went far beyond merely plotting gags; his films are some of the most gorgeously photographed silent comedies, with expansive vistas and extravagant sets; perhaps the most remarkable fact of all is that each short is a wildly different picture, a beautiful and original self-contained world. We're overjoyed to bring to you a night of Keaton's first films, where the laws of physics are meant to be bent, and anything is possible.
Tickets - $10
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