After a successful festival run that saw it win grand prizes at Fantoche and Ottawa, Atsushi Wada’s wonderfully deadpan enigma Bird in the Peninsula (2022) has debuted online.

Last week, we talked about silent film auteur Buster Keaton vogueing—this week, we bring you good tidings of Betty Boop’s ...

Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the biggest thing in animation. But behind the success of the cartoon cat, his creator lived a controversial and tragic life.

Jackass is both a celebration of poor taste and a welcome elevation of the slapstick comedy tradition.

“I’m a Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song),” a nearly-twenty-year-old viral internet song featuring the green gummy bear Gummibär, is headed to the bigscreen.

Slapstick Festival is a celebration of silent and classic screen comedy - from films to TV, to those who starred in and wrote them. This year's event features 35 classic, silent and visual comedy ...

Seattle Opera will present a "Magic Flute" that mixes live performance with projected animations, turning singers into living parts of a cinematic spectacle.

The latest, a mash-up of Buster Keaton’s sublime 1924 comedy “Sherlock Jr.” and songs from a pair of ‘90s R.E.M. albums (“Monster” and “New Adventures in Hi-Fi”), comes to River ...

Expanding on the aquatic theme is Handel’s "Suite of Water Music," Ferde Grofé’s wonderful "The Mississippi Suite" and a silent film with the orchestra playing for favorite Buster Keaton in ...

Comedian Buster Keaton, 70, Hollywood immortal whose trade-mark was the dead pan and who felt last year that “I might live forever,” died of lung cancer Tuesday in his Woodland Hills home.