The edition is supplemented by a small sampling of drama films and newsreels recovered in dawson city. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Three ages w buster keaton full1080p video dailymotion. Keaton not only starred in three ages but also wrote, directed, and. It is also one of the few silent films outside the ones he made with fatty arbuckle, in which he has a famous costar, wallace beery. The film takes place in three different historical erasthe stone age, ancient rome, and the modern age. Buster keaton the three ages 1923 video dailymotion. The three ages 1923 directed by buster keaton and eddie cline. Griffiths intolerance, keaton and paramour margaret leahy are shown. You can read more about this film on its imdb page. The following is an overview of 1923 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Three ages rock above left is part of a formation that is nestled against the south end of. The film was shot in this manner as a kind of insurance for the studio.
Language silent film, english intertitles three ages is a sparkling comedy, included in our program to celebrate the work and contributions of our star joe roberts. Serious nitrate decomposition shows in the last part of three ages, the segment depicting the present day 1923. It is a landmark film in his career, but not actually his best. The film documents the recovery of complete and incomplete nitrate prints of more than 500 silent era films in dawson city, yukon territory, canada, in 1978. The hero faces the problem of the lover with a formidable rival in three ages. Bombay beach is a haunting documentary about the lost souls who found a california ghost town and made it their home. Our hospitality 1923, his next effort, featured the kind of careful period verisimilitude that would embellish his best film, the general 1926, and it ends in. While keaton was a proven success in the short film medium, he had yet to prove. As a personal project for myself, i decided to compile a list of all the silent films released on bluray that i still need to purchase.
In theory, three ages is a spoof on griffiths legendary intolerance, a film that intercuts several stories from different historical eras, and it is true. In buster keatons multinarrative epic, mans primal quest for love is played out in the stone age, ancient rome, and the jazz age. Men in three different ages each face off against a burly villain for love of a woman. And the misadventures of buster in three separate historical periods finally have happy. The three ages buster keaton, 1923 full movie public. Keatons first feature, the three ages 1923, is a ragbag sendup of griffiths intolerance 1916, studded with odd gags, but purely preliminary. The three ages of cinema studies and the age to come authors. Three ages 1923 collections and boxsets that include silent era buster keaton films. If you let your mind wander back through history you will find that the only thing that has not changed since the world began is love. The three ages is one of the first old movies i ever saw. Keatons filmmaking process started with a rough story idea, sets, props, a cast, and crew. This kino bluray release of three ages is packaged with sherlock jr. It stars buster keaton and takes place in three different time periods, the stone age. To me this film is as watchable today as it was when it was created 80 years ago.
So here is every silent film that i could find, on bluray sorted by distributor, then year. Bombay beach and the allure of the ghost town film the. Today, though, we have companies like criterion and kino lorber to keep the classics alive, and the latter has brought us a bluray featuring keatons 1926 classic the. The best movies of 1923 picked by critics and filmmakers and sorted by rank. In the 1920s, keatons film comedies the three ages, our hospitality both 1923, sherlock junior, the navigator both 1924, and the general 1926 became world famous. This would be the first of keatons efforts at creating a feature film after a series of shorts. The first feature keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in unlike the saphead 1920, in which he only acted, keaton structured the film like three intercut short films. Three ages is a 1923 blackandwhite american featurelength silent comedy film starring comedian buster keaton and wallace beery. Three ages 1923 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Not keatons best feature it often feels like three short films stitched together. Three ages is the first fulllength comedy produced by and starring legendary comic buster keaton. Kino lorber releases four allnew restorations of the classic buster keaton comedies the general, three ages,steamboat bill, jr. Three ages is the first fulllength comedy produced by and starring legendary. The future home of two olympics 1932, 1984 was opened the year of the films release, 1923. The idea was that if the featurelength version flopped, it could be reedited into three separate shorts. Three ages is a 1923 blackandwhite american featurelength silent. Three ages is buster keatons feature length directorial debut parodying d. Buster keaton great director profile senses of cinema.
This silent movie comedy, made in 1923, starring keaton in the stone age, the roman antiquate age, and the roaring twenties, the modern age, all involve his. Three ages is buster keatons first feature length film as a director. Absent minded professor film my family has had this movie on vhs for many years, the dvd provides a big improvement in picture and sound quality, plus it allows for scene searches and other nice features. Three ages is a 1923 film directed by and starring buster keaton for his first feature film, keaton made an affectionate parody of d w griffiths intolerance, in which a love triangle plays out in prehistoric times, during the roman empire, and in 1920s america. In his first independently produced feature film buster tells of love and romance through three historical ages. The film features three love stories, with the same cast principally keaton, wallace beery and margaret leahy set across three time periods, the stone age, the roman age, and the then modern age. Las tres edades 1923 buster keaton three ages hd 1080p. The misadventures of buster in three separate historical periods. Since i figured this list would be useful to everyone, i decided to make a complete list of all silent films on bluray. Meanwhile, three ages gets two short television segments featuring keaton an alkaseltzer commercial and a clip from candid camera, plus d. He opens the book of the three ages whose preface reads. Buster keaton our hospitality 1923 full movie duration.
The stunt was set up so that keaton could just barely make the jump, but he missed and fell a couple storeys into a net, injuring himself in the process. Three ages double feature on bluray 738329067922 from kino video. After some additional editing, schenck and keaton released the three ages as a 63minute feature in august of 1923. While keaton was a proven success in the short film medium, he had yet to prove himself as a featurelength star. Buster keaton, margaret leahy, wallace beery 56 min. This gut busting comedy, starring buster keaton, charmingly explores love in the three ages of life the prehistoric age, the roman age, and the modern age.
Complete collection immerse yourself in the awardwinning strategy experience. The stadiums east portico acts as backdrop to the ancient roman. Absent minded professor video this is a great movie. Buster keaton gets ready to leave as joe roberts looks on in three ages 1923.
He decided to incorporate the mistake into the film, and created a new sequence to follow it, showing him falling through a series of awnings. Throughout the years, where love is concerned, does anything really change. The complete films of buster keaton by jim kline and cut to the chase by marion. As long as the films made money, producer schenck gave him carte blanche. Staring margaret leahy, kathryn mcguire, buster keaton and wallace beery. Arthur trimble and bessie love in a short film from the 1923 series the strange adventures of prince courageous this is a list of american films released in 1923. New restoration from lobster films coming soon to dcp. Keaton played the leads in these films and was usually director as well. The three ages 1923 the rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man buster keaton vies with a villain wallace beery for the girl margaret leahy. Although its not as celebrated today as sherlock jr. Overall, a small but interesting collection of filmspecific supplements and pop culture curiosities. She won a beauty contest and her prize was to be in a movie. Griffiths intolerance in his debut feature as creatorstar.
In between, there was a great deal of improvisation and baseball games. Buster keaton article about buster keaton by the free. Keaton began playing in movie shorts with the wellknown comic r. He demonstrates both comic and dramatic skills as he. Microsoft studios brings you three epic age of empires iii games in one monumental collection for the first time. In the stone age he and his rival throw giant pebbles at each other and eventually he drags off the girl by the hair. Command mighty european powers looking to explore new lands in the new world. Best chatsworth movies three ages 1923 three ages 1923 is an american featurelength silent film comedy starring buster keaton, margaret leahy, wallace beery. On his next feature film he would star, write, produce, and direct. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. The three ages of cinema studies and the age to come.