Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.... (Full plot summary below)
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Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
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| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIn The Great Buster, Bogdanovich has provided a brilliantly enthralling primer. |
| L.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlIt’s a relaxed study of greatness, of exquisite physical comedy, of how’d-he-do-that stuntwork, of a vigorous cinema artist who saw new and enduring possibilities for his medium. |
| The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldA conventional but thoroughly entertaining film. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoA new documentary, The Great Buster: A Celebration, shows us why he inspires rhapsodies from critics and film historians, and would be a fine introduction for those who don’t know his work. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreGreat Buster turns Bogdanovich’s lifelong appreciation into cinematic adoration, using generous clips of Keaton’s short films, features and late-life TV appearances to remind us that, as Johnny Knoxville says in the movie, “he was funny then, he’s funny now and he’ll be funny 100 years from now.” |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe stone-faced silent comedian’s influence on every possible aspect of physical comedy is wide and deep, attested to in this movie by entertainers old (Bill Irwin, Paul Dooley, Richard Lewis), ancient (Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner), youngish (Bill Hader, Quentin Tarantino), and random (Cybill Shepherd, Werner Herzog). |
| The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe mix of commentators is unusual and lively, hardly the usual crowd that often pops up in documentaries like this, the clips are illustrative and on point in addition to often being eye-popping, and the film looks certain to please Keaton aficionados. Most importantly, it's likely to induce newcomers to investigate the great stone face for themselves. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerBogdanovich narrates the most extraordinary moments of close-up slapstick and derring-do with equal fascination. But mostly what he does is let them play out with the occasional factoid, so the audience can appreciate just how impeccable Keaton's work was. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderWorking with Keaton’s own material, Bodganovich is too busy praising the artist to bother saying anything novel about him. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe film presents a compact, tactful biography and also a valuable explication of the Keatonesque in its most sublime varieties. Coming ahead of a digital restoration of Keaton’s major films, it serves as both a primer and refresher, as well as a promise that he will not be forgotten. |
