Imogen Sara Smith is the author of Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy and In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City. She lives in New York City with her family. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Bookforum. , all of which have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.ĭana Stevens is the film critic at Slate magazine and a co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast. as well as The Cameraman, The General, and Sherlock Jr. On Keaton’s breakneck productivity and prolific output of films throughout this period, film critic Roger Ebert said: “from 1920 to 1929, he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.” Keaton’s experience with pratfalls and showmanship from vaudeville performances as a child evolved into his eye-popping, unforgetable achievements in Steamboat Bill, Jr. Known as “The Great Stone Face” due to his deadpan facial expressions and mannerisms during the Silent Film era, Buster Keaton left an enduring impression on film history. Both films are from the Cohen Film Collection and feature 5.1 orchestral scores by composer Carl Davis. follows, preceded by a 2K restoration of the classic two-reeler One Week. A screening of the 4K restoration of Keaton’s silent comedy masterpiece Steamboat Bill, Jr. To mark the upcoming release of her new book Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century, author and Slate film critic Dana Stevens joins Film at Lincoln Center for an extended conversation with writer Imogen Sara Smith. 48th Chaplin Award Gala Honoring Viola Davis (April 24)įilm at Lincoln Center announces Camera Man: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton, taking place January 27 at 7:00pm at the Francesca Beale Theater in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.Other People's Children (Opens April 21).New Directors/New Films 2023 (March 29-April 9).An Evening with Terence Blanchard: Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues (Monday w.Cauleen Smith: Shorts Program II (Sunday).Cauleen Smith: Shorts Program I (Friday w.Unspeakable: The Films of Tod Browning (Starts Friday).
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