Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life by James Curtis
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Overview: From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis – a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern – and irresistible – today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago.
“It is brilliant – I was totally absorbed, couldn’t stop reading it and was very sorry when it ended.” (Kevin Brownlow)
It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton “The Great Stone Face.” Keaton’s face, Agee wrote, “ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny. Keaton was the only major comedian who kept sentiment almost entirely out of his work and…he brought pure physical comedy to its greatest heights.”
Mel Brooks: “A lot of my daring came from Keaton.”
Martin Scorsese, influenced by Keaton’s pictures in the making of Raging Bull: “The only person who had the right attitude about boxing in the movies for me,” Scorsese said, “was Buster Keaton.”
Keaton’s deadpan stare in a porkpie hat was as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin’s tramp and Harold Lloyd’s straw boater and spectacles, and, with W. C. Fields, the four were each considered a comedy king – but Keaton was, and still is, considered to be the greatest of them all.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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