The Cameraman / Spite Marriage
Our Buster Keaton series comes to a conclusion as his period of creative independence does, with his first two features for MGM: THE CAMERAMAN and SPITE MARRIAGE. The former? Debatably a meta-masterpi...
11 Jun 20231h 57min
College / Steamboat Bill, Jr. with John Hodgman
After his “blank check” for THE GENERAL bounced, Buster Keaton found himself creatively and financially shackled. Thus, 1927’s COLLEGE lands on the lesser end of the quality spectrum (not to mention ...
4 Jun 20232h 22min
Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie
One of narrative cinema’s earliest training sequences, and one of cinema’s most famous trains - that’s right, we’re covering Buster Keaton’s 1926 films BATTLING BUTLER and THE GENERAL. Gentleman, scho...
28 Mai 20232h 36min
Seven Chances / Go West with Jamie Loftus
This week’s Keaton double feature sees our unflappable hero chased by two types of terrifying crowds: angry would-be brides, and a herd of cattle. How does he outrun them both? Jamie Loftus joins us t...
21 Mai 20232h 17min
Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak
Buster Keaton released two features in 1924 - “Sherlock Jr.”, a film that was considered a commercial disappointment at the time but has grown in stature over the past century, and “The Navigator'', a...
14 Mai 20232h 19min
Three Ages / Our Hospitality with Dana Stevens
The Great Stone Face…The Little Boy Who Couldn’t Be Damaged…whatever you call him, Buster Keaton is one of the most important figures in film history, and we couldn’t be happier to be spotlight him in...
7 Mai 20232h 37min
Yesterday with Zach Cherry
Our Danny Boyle series comes to an end with a mind-bending movie that dares to ask the question, “What if The Beatles didn’t exist?” Severance’s Zach Cherry makes his long-overdue first appearance on ...
30 Apr 20232h 39min
T2 Trainspotting with Scott Aukerman & Shaun Diston
First they were addicted to heroin, now they’re addicted to *nostalgia* (but also still heroin)! Danny Boyle returns to the squalid Scottish world of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie for T2: Trainsp...
23 Apr 20232h 23min
