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More Keaton is always a good thing — fans of The General and The Cameraman will find plenty to enjoy in these two classics. Buster befriends a cow ( ! ) in Go West and conquers several sports in College. Cohen’s Buster Keaton Collection series is up to Volume 4, with both shows featuring Italian restorations. With music scores by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Score Orchestra and Rodney Sauer; the disc extra is a rare audio talk by Buster himself.

Go West and College

Blu-ray

The Buster Keaton Collection Volume 4

Cohen Film Collection

1925, 1927

B&w / 1:33 Silent Ap / 133 min.

Street Date December 8, 2020 / 29.95

Starring & Directed by Buster Keaton

The collector and distributor Raymond Rohauer ended up with the ownership of all of Buster Keaton’s films, which was a good thing in the long run because Buster himself might have let them crumble into dust. The collection is in the hands of Cohen Media now,...

Buster Keaton’s first full feature is a real accomplishment, a little masterpiece that deftly balances comedy and drama. Buster’s star appeal is on full display as an 1830 lad who returns to the hill country to resettle the old homestead and lands in the middle of a murderous feud — with the girl he loves on the other side. It’s an historically sensitive, hilarious comedy, with a hair-raising waterfall stunt set-piece for a finale.

Our Hospitality

Blu-ray

Kino Classics

1923 / B&w / 1:33 Silent Ap. / 75 min. / Street Date October 15, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts, Monte Collins, Kitty Bradbury, Joe Keaton.

Cinematography: Gordon Jennings, Elgin Lessley

2019 Music Score by: Robert Israel

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

Produced by Joseph M. Schenck

Directed by Jack Blystone, Buster Keaton

Our Hospitality shows Buster Keaton coming into his own, as a comic genius...

Hitting movie theaters this weekend:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules – Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron

Sucker Punch – Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm

Movie of the Week

Sucker Punch

The Stars: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm

The Plot: A young girl (Browning) is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.

The Buzz: It’s certainly a great time to be a fifteen-year-old boy, isn’t it? It’s a shame I’m twenty years past my prime – Sucker Punch would have been 100% pure Pavlovian arousal for me back then. The batch of battling bombshells cartwheeling in all their gorgeously rendered video-game glory, coupled with the film’s flawless focus on, and impenetrable belief in, the great escape that can...

Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality will be introduced by Keaton’s granddaughter Melissa Talmadge Cox at the opening of the 14th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 26, in White Concert Hall, Washburn University. The Festival continues Saturday, Feb. 27. Admission is free both days. According to the Ksff press release, Talmadge Cox "will relate how the 1923 film was a family affair, with both her grandparents as the stars (Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge) and her great-grandfather (Joe Keaton) and her father (James Keaton) in small roles." Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra of Boulder, Colo. [...]...