Melbourne, Australia 7 May: STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1928)

mrbertiewooster · Post by **mrbertiewooster** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:19 am

Steamboat Bill Jr.
Buster Keaton & Charles Reiser (1928) 35mm 75min

ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne
7pm, Wed 7 May

Buster plays a typically diminutive milquetoast browbeaten by his formidable father (Ernest Torrence), captain of the last Mississippi River steamboat. Keaton's final independent film contains several of the most extraordinary set-pieces of his career.

Superbly inventive, intricately precise and beautifully structured, Keaton's late silent is the last in his great run of features stretching back to Our Hospitality in 1923. Its truly extraordinary cyclone finale "marks the apogee of Keaton's most spectacular work with props" (David Robinson).

Screens with short film:

The High Sign[
Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton (1921) 21 mins

One of Keaton's most purely anarchic films featuring a brilliantly choreographed mousetrap chase.

Prints courtesy of the Library of Congress

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