Buster Keaton retrospective

Ten silent comedies that show why Keaton is remembered as the great physical filmmaker of the silent era.

The list is about his craft: stunts done for real, gags built from geography and timing, and a deadpan face that never begs for laughs.

It starts with the features where he found his style, then the run of inventive masterpieces in the mid-1920s.

It closes with the late silent films, just before the studio system took control away from him.