No. 61. (2019) The Great Buster. July 9th.

Film No 61 (2019) July 9th.  2:00 PM  LUNA PALACE Leederville. 

Luna Revelation film Festival Perth Western Australia July 4th - 17th.

"For Keaton, cinema was important. It was jokes that worked because of the movie cambre". (Quentin Tarantino pays tribute, as part of the commentary, to one of his cinema heroes).

This insightful documentary directed by the prolific Peter Bogdanovich is a wonderfully thorough tribute to a comic genius who rivaled Chaplin for pathos and timing. Bogdanovich has created a wonderful documentary giving audiences a thorough understanding of the son, the man, the husband, the father, the comedian, the stuntman, the inventor, the studio executive and quite simply the legend. Buster began life in a showbiz family and was stealing scenes on stage from age four. The montage of interviews from friend Dick Van Dyke, to stunt-mad Johnny Knoxville, to film historian Werner Herzog adds dimension to the influence Keaton had on their personal journeys and the cinema landscape in general. We're taken from his beginnings in the silent era on a journey through his inventiveness in setting up a 4 second, often dangerous, visual gag to his sometimes painful transition to sound features and then to his mastering of all forms of entertainment; including serious performances. The Great Buster is a delight. 10GUMS.