Tonight!

At 6:50 & 9:15

Top 5 Top 5 Lists Related To, But Not Including, Sherlock Jr & The General

Top 5 Buster Keaton Features:

1. Steamboat Bill, Jr (Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton, 1928)
2. Our Hospitality (John Blystone & Buster Keaton, 1923)
3. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
4. The Three Ages (Buster Keaton & Edward Cline, 1923)
5. The Navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton, 1924)


Top 5 Buster Keaton Shorts:

1. The Play House (Buster Keaton & Edward Cline, 1921)
2. One Week (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton, 1920)
3. Cops (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton, 1922)
4. Neighbors (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton, 1920)
5. The Balloonatic (Edward Cline & Buster Keaton, 1923)


Top 5 Movies About Movies:

1. Singin' In The Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
3. Histoire(s) du cinema (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)
4. F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
5. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)


Top 5 Civil War Films:

1. Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
2. Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989)
3. The Horse Soldiers (John Ford, 1959)
4. Gettysburg (Ronald Maxwell, 1993)
5. Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah, 1965)


Top 5 Films Of 1927:

1. Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (FW Murnau)
2. Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
3. Wings (William Wellman)
4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
5. It (Clarence Badger)

Links: The General & Sherlock, Jr.

Slate tells you why you really need to see the General.

Screen Savour praises Sherlock, Jr.

Roger Ebert knocks it out of the park with an overview of Keaton's career and a more detailed take on the General in his Great Movies series.

Coming Attractions: The General w/ Sherlock, Jr.

Wednesday, November 25th at 6:50 & 9:15

Giveaways: Glory DVD courtesy of Scarecrow Video and a gift certificate for Rain City Video, respectively.

See you there!