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Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. with R.E.M.'s Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi

A Silents Synced Film

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It didn’t take long for cinema to become self-reflexive. Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr anticipates post-modernism by decades. Buster plays a projectionist who dreams himself onto (and into) the movie screen, where he finds himself in high slapstick peril. The formal mastery here is dazzling and more than a century after the film’s release, audiences will be in gales of laughter. Hopefully none of them will end up on screen.

This screening comes with a jukebox score from those indie rock dreamers REM, and specifically tracks from the albums Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

Director

Buster Keaton

Cast

Buster Keaton, Kathryn Maguire, Joe Keaton

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

1924

Language

No Dialogue

19+
60 min

Book Tickets

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Credits

Screenwriter

Jean C. Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman

Cinematography

Byron Houck, Elgin Lessley

Cinematography

Roy B. Yokelson

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