To say I all-but-devoured two new books about Buster Keaton understates the case. I've been nuts about the silent-film comic since I was a teenager, and had been thinking of him a lot since the death ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse, in partnership with Silents Synced, pairs Buster Keaton’s hilarious 1924 silent comedy Sherlock Jr. with the atmospheric sounds of R.E.M.’s 1996 hit album "New Adventures in Hi ...

This image provided by film distributor M&M International promotes its retrospective for masterpieces by actor-director ...

Buster Keaton was known for performing dangerous stunts with unmatched precision, but one moment in his career went wrong and unexpectedly made film history. During the filming of a now legendary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bengtson stands at Divisadero and Broadway in San Francisco in 2000 holding a still from a Buster Keaton film at the same ...

Since its founding twenty-four years ago, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s mission has been to not only present silent films in the best possible conditions — high-quality prints screened in a ...

John Bengtson, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 68, was an unassuming Californian lawyer acclaimed as “the Sherlock Holmes of film locations”; he dedicated his spare time to obsessive ...