The Playhouse (1921) Buster Keaton

The Playhouse is a comedy film written, directed by, and starring Buster Keaton:
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It is famous for the opening sequence in which Keaton plays every role, like Georges Méliès did in • L' Uomo Orchestra (190...
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Buster Keaton (born as Joseph Frank Keaton in 1895, Piqua, Kansas - died in 1966, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.) is an American actor and film director. The son of wandering vaudeville actors, Keaton was forced to tread upon stage already at the early age of 3. In his late 20s, he went to New York and began working as the sidekick of the comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, to continue from then on his solo career.
His ever-serious deadpan expression will earn him the nickname “The Great Stone Face”. His comedy, bordering on the surreal, and in fact, he was much loved by the surrealists, constantly plays on the contrasts of true/false, dream/reality, and in a world that is in constant change. Often towards catastrophe, his expression is the only firm point that reveals the contradictions and the most absurd aspects; moreover, in many of his creations, Keaton stages the methods and the cinema itself: metalinguistic elements appear in many of his films and in particular in The Playhouse, in Sherlock Jr. or in The Cameraman: • Il cameraman o Io e la...
But the advent of sound put an end to his career, as well as that of many other silent film comedians, whose comedy was based on physical gags and therefore no longer suitable for sound cinema.
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