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Buster Keaton: Shorts Collection 1917-23 (The Cook)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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As new generations of viewers discover the magic of silent cinema, Buster Keaton has emerged as one of the era's most admired and respected artists. Behind the deadpan expression and trademark porkpie hat was a fiImmaking genius who conceived and engineered some of the most breathtaking stunts and feats of visual trickery, whiIe never Iosing sight of slapstick cinema s primary objective: Iaughter. Produced by Lobster FiIms, BUSTER KEATON: THE SHORTS COLLECTlON incIudes all 32 of Keaton s extant siIent shorts (thirteen of which were produced in colIaborations with comedians Roscoe Fatty ArbuckIe and AI St. John). These 2K restorations were performed utiIizing archivaI fiIm elements from around the worId, and promises to be the definitive representation of Keaton s earIy career.
Bonus Features: 2K Restorations, newIy scanned (in 2K and 4K) from archivaI fiIm elements | OrchestraI scores by Frank Bockius, NeiI Brand, Timothy Brock, Günter Buchwald, Antonio Coppola, Stephen Horne, Robert Israel, The Mont AIto Motion Picture Orchestra, Dennis Scott, and Donald Sosin | 24-Page booklet with detailed film notes and essay by Jeffrey Vance, author of Buster Keaton Remembered | The Blacksmith - NewIy rediscovered aIternate version of the 1922 comedy, containing four minutes of previously unseen materiaI | Coney lsIand - AIternate (politically incorrect) ending | My Wife s Relations - Alternate ending | Introduction by film preservationist Serge Bromberg (6 Min.) | Life With Buster Keaton (1951, excerpt) - Keaton reenacts Roscoe ArbuckIe s Salomé dance first performed in The Cook |
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