The Center Theatre has announced a special screening of Buster Keaton’s classic 1926 silent comedy film "The General", accompanied live on piano by Maine ...

Arguably, Buster Keaton's magnum opus, The General, was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862, a defining moment of ...

Conceived by George Lucas as the synthetic centerpiece of “The Phantom Menace,” Jar Jar was modeled after the physical genius of Buster Keaton (“The General”) and intended for comic relief.

Indeed, Best was cast for the malleable mannerisms and babbling delivery displayed in his stand-up comedy, and sat with Lucas to study the motivation behind Keaton’s movement. While ILM had previously ...

You've seen the bit where Buster Keaton bonks a railway sleeper out ... But then his other beloved, the locomotive The General, is stolen by Union spies. He gives chase in another loco, and ...

"Stunts are essential to every genre of film and rooted deep in our industry's history — from the groundbreaking work of early pioneers like Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin to ...