Fritz Lang was born in 1890 in Austria Hungary before joining the Austrian army during World War I. He was severely injured and suffered from shll-shock whih ave him time to begin writing films while recovering. After the war, he moved to Germany, then the Weimar Republic, to work with UFA…
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Sergei Mikhaylovich Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga Latvia in 1898 and was Jewish via his paternal grandparents. The family moved to St. Petersburg in 1910 where Eisenstein studied architecture and engineering. This education was to have a tremendous impact on his later experimental film making. He studied the works of Da…
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Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton
Buster Keaton was born into a family of vaudeville performers in Kansas , and was also named the sixth Joseph in a long line of family members named Joseph. In later life, Keaton would tell a story of how he recieved the nickname “Buster.” One day while tumbling in his family’s…
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Film Review
8/24/14 Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Director: Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton ★★★★★ Dreams are blended together with moving pictures in Buster Keaton’s short silent masterpiece, Sherlock Jr. This film offers an abbreviated homage to the art of movie-making as we meet a theatre projectionist who envisions of becoming a detective. His dreams…