Synopsis
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and running 102 minutes. Its subject is Buster Keaton — actor, director, and practical stuntman of the silent era, who engineered his gags without doubles and cut them without deception.
Bogdanovich assembled testimony from roughly twenty filmmakers and performers, including Quentin Tarantino, Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Werner Herzog, and Bill Hader. The structure is broadly chronological: from Keaton's vaudeville childhood through the great films of the 1920s — The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr. — and into the studio years that handed control of his work to MGM and cost him a decade.
What the film argues, through its interviewees, is a specific point about method: where Chaplin worked with pathos, Keaton worked with physics. That distinction sharpens as more voices repeat it. Stream The Great Buster (2018) online on iFILM.
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