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.
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, Kathryn Maguire, Joe Keaton
USA
1924
No Dialogue
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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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