Two new books about a legendary silent film comic — Dana Stevens' Camera Man and James Curtis' Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life — give fans new reason to revisit Keaton's work.

A hundred years later, the sequence still radiates an otherworldly aura: a man wearing a porkpie hat walks down the aisle of ...

Whereas Chaplin’s vision was essentially theatrical, Keaton’s was specific to the screen—he moved like the moving pictures.

Well, not quite. That title should go to Buster Keaton, the doe-eyed, stoney-faced maverick of the silent film era, whose extraordinary stunts make Tom Cruise look risk-averse.

Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman– the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece. The final work ...

Buster Keaton’s Stroll and Other Stories, Blair Thomas & Co., at the Actors Gymnasium. After working for years on epics like Moby-Dick for Redmoon Theater, which he cofounded, Blair Thomas has ...

A portrait of Buster Keaton adorns the sign welcoming people to Muskegon’s Bluffton neighborhood, where Keaton and many vaudeville performers spent their summers in the early part of the 20th ...

The Keaton revival has never really abated. In 2022, he was the subject of two excellent biographies, James Curtis’s Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life and Dana Steven’s Cameraman.