Robert Regan
29Feb12
I think my favorite Keaton is whichever one I have just seen, usually Sherlock, Steamboat Bill, The Navigator, or......
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Trolley Freak
15Nov12
This ingenious comedy from The Great Stone Face is a comedy masterpiece in miniature, a glorious string of brilliant gags timed and performed to perfection by an artist at his peak. Not only that, the story is strong and well thought out too and not just a flimsy vehicle to get hurriedly to the next big laugh. Woody almost certainly took a look at this before he made The Purple Rose Of Cairo over sixty years later...
CarlosEsquives
6Sep12
Sin duda el primer gran clásico de Buster Keaton. Un pequeño filme que congrega varias escenas dignas del recuerdo, tales como el sueño de Keaton, el ingreso a la pantalla de cine, el salto a una ventana, la moto sin conductor y la escena de amor del final.
Mimzilla
22Aug12
I'm a bit heart broken these days but watching Buster Keaton does help ease the pain. This comedy makes me laugh more than anything put out today. It's just simply classic and fantastic.
Sudipto Basu
20Aug12
Terrific film. Surely one of the first to recognise how real life imitates cinema. Not to say anything about the gags.
Heikan
10May12
This film (specially the ending) serves as a reminder of how the cinema has taught us how to behave, how to love, how to feel, how to live. It's not even an overreaction; movie scenes set the standards of how human interactions should be. Makes you wonder if art imitates life or if we, just like Buster, just wish to live on the other side of the screen.
The Macho King The Illmatic One
22Apr12
The amount of Amazing things that Buster did in this shows u what a master of his craft he truly was.Just one of Keaton's many contributions 2 Cinema.So he gets the Props;)
Hugo Resendiz Saldivar
16Apr12
Hermosa película! Lo que he visto de Buster Keaton ha sido de una calidad altísima.
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Dave
26Feb12
Watched this again yesterday and I now think it might be the finest movie ever made. It just has so much going for it. The gags and sequences are classic - the lost dollar, trailing the suspect, the dream sequence, the game of pool. And, in step with the best films of 2011 but doing it 90 years earlier, it speaks to the magic of the cinema and movies in general. This is beyond great - still my #1 for the 1920s.
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Kyle Chiba
23Jan12
Such a shame, this and The Play House both screened in 35mm with a live organ accompaniment a few nights ago(the 21st) not far from me in Jersey City. I will feel guilty of not going forever.
Michael Dallape
21Dec11
Hilarious. Will definitely change a person's opinion on silent films. Loved every moment.
Alexander Robino
5Dec11
I will give this film 4 stars mainly for its technical achievement. It was the 20's, so I'll give him props for that.
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Charles Ziegler-Hartmann
7Dec11
I love that part where the scene keeps changing on him while he's up on the screen. For some reason the film overall reminds me of how a lot of Murnau's "The Last Laugh" seemed to flow.
Tony Zhou
15Sep11
Nothing makes me happier than showing this film to modern viewers and hearing them yell "How did he DO THAT?" An infinite number of computers doing infinite years of rendering couldn't match what Buster did with his body and a lot of careful planning.
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Matthew_Lucas
24Jul11
Keaton's feature films gave him more breathing room, and although this sophisticated effort may be short for a feature at a mere 44 minutes, it nevertheless stands tall as one of his finest achievements. Keaton plays a movie projectionist/amateur detective who is framed for theft by a rival for the affections of the same woman, resulting in an elaborate (and hilarious) effort to prove his innocence.
Pierre Andre
5Jun11
I could go on about how ahead of its time this film was, or how without it, there would be no Jackie Chan or Duck Amuck, but I was too busy enjoying myself, honestly. I couldn't help imagining myself as a kid in the silent film era paying a nickel to see it and falling in love with it so much that I stayed in the theater to watch again and again.
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