FALL 2008
October 21
 Sherlock
Jr.
USA
1924, 44 min, comedy
Director: Buster Keaton
Another Buster Keaton film will also be shown.
This hugely influential film and masterpiece of silent cinema demonstrates the
enduring fascination that filmmakers have had with the interpenetration of real
life and film (e.g. Adaptation, The Purple Rose
of Cairo). Keaton plays a film-obsessed
movie projectionist who falls asleep, slides down a projection beam, and enters
a cinematic world where events parallel the conflicts of his own life, but where
the ordinary laws of physics have been replaced by the capricious rules of film
editing. A technically dazzling film, Sherlock, Jr. also features some of Keaton’s
most breathtaking physical comedy. (Watch for the stunt involving a railway water
spout. Incredibly, Keaton broke his neck doing this one, but was back at work
the next day!). Features an original music score by the Club Foot Orchestra.
"A cinema operator falls asleep at his machine and dreams he is a great detective—the
kind that only the cinema can produce." — TIME
Magazine, Jun. 2, 1924
LINKS
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