The Great Buster: A Celebration

Streaming video - 2018

This documentary celebrates the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films THE GREAT BUSTER is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian whose landmark writings and films on such renowned directors as John Ford and Orson Welles have become the standard by which all other studies are measured. Winner of Best Documentary on Cinema at the **Venice Film Festival**. *"An amusing and authoritative documentary directed by Peter Bogdanovich that both satisfies the true believer and offers the... agnostic a place to begin." - Kenneth Turan, **Los Angeles Times***

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Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Cohen Film Collection 2018.
2019.
Language
English
Other Authors
Peter Bogdanovich (film director), Bill Hader (actor), Carl Reiner, Johnny Knoxville, Mel Brooks, Quentin Tarantino, Werner Herzog
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
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In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).