To tie in with the release of the digital restoration of The General (1920), the BFI Southbank has announced a two month season starting in January dedicated to the comic ingenuity of Buster Keaton.
The season will also include a number of films which bear stylist or thematic resemblance to Keaton’s oeuvre.
Part one of the season will include work by Woody Allen, the Brothers Quay and Jacques Tati.
Buster Keaton was a magnificent screen comedian, arguably only rivalled by Charlie Chapin, and possessed comic invention and precision like no other.
He was also a hugely imaginative director whose work – much of it ahead of its time in many ways – still feels extremely modern.
The season will offer, as well as some of Keaton’s finest films, a selection of films which can be deemed ‘Keatonesque’.
Keaton films being screened will include Sherlock Jr (1924), Our Hospitality (1923), Go West (1925) and The Navigator (1924), while ‘Keatonesque’ films include Woody Allen’s Zelig (1983), Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) and Aki Kaurismäki’s Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (1994).
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