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27 October 2024 Bielefeld (Germany)
Film + Music Festival: Double Feature: Buster Keaton
Axel Goldbeck and the cinematographic orchestra - Rudolf-Oetker Halle
Program Info: The Goat United States, 1921 | 23 min. Director: Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair
Seven Chances (Seven chances) United States, 1925 | 57 Min. Director: Buster Keaton
Even as a toddler, Buster Keaton learned the hard rules of show business with his parents as “The Three Keatons” on the vaudeville stage. People laughed when his father threw the little boy around on stage and caused him to fall in the audience. The boy learned to endure the falls (“Buster”) with a stoic expression and to use acrobatic skills to make them effective, which encouraged a lot of laughter.
Alongside Charles Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton is the third in the triad of silent film's most important silent film comedians. In his films, Keaton develops the "Stoneface" under the flat felt hat called "Porkpie", which apparently endures the humiliations of life unmoved, into his trademark. In the double feature The Goat and Seven Chances he can be seen in his signature role, that of the young, clumsy man who is only prepared to throw clubs between his legs, but who turns his fate around - and always ends up with the most beautiful girl gets.
In addition to the seemingly impassive facial expressions that could express every emotion in his eyes, the "mutest of all silent film comedians" according to James Agee is also a genius of escape and chase. Probably the most impressive one shows Seven Chances , in which hundreds of furious brides in full regalia who want to get married chase the millionaire and marriage fraudster Jimmie through the streets of Los Angeles until they are stopped by an avalanche of rubble that he unintentionally caused - and Jimmie gets the right woman after all .
With the specialists for tempo and swing: Axel Goldbeck and his Cinematographic Orchestra .
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