Our Hospitality (1923)

Re-Watched In 2013 (67 movies items)

" May 3rd Previous Score - 6/10 New Score - 6/10"

Our Hospitality

“If the Hatfields and McCoys rivalry doesn’t sound like ripe ground for comedic possibilities then you clearly aren’t Buster Keaton. The great stone faced comedian who met every challenge with remarked indifference and performed death-defying stunts with no emotional investment. Our Hospitality may not be the greatest of Keaton’s film, but its unique in that it allows us a look at an artist figuring out how to navigate the world of feature-length productions.

It’s an embryonic glimpse of the genius and visual poetry that would flow out of him a few years later. The opening prologue is pure melodrama of the silent period. Our hero’s father and his main rival engage in a pistol duel, his father dies, and his mother freaks and relocates to New York where he grows up blissf” read more

Watched in 2012 (752 movies items)

"5.11.12. PC Buster Keaton alkaa riiustella erään etelävaltiolaisen suvun tytärtä tiedostamatta, että tyttö kuuluu perheeseen, joka on vuosikymmeniä jatkuneen sukuvihan tähden vannonut tappaa jokaisen Keatonin perheen jäsenen. Tyttö kutsuu Busterin käymään ja mies saapuu paikalle pahaa aavistamatta. Herrasmiehinä kuitenkin suvun miehet ovat päättäneet olla tappamatta Keatonia sillä aikaa, kun hän on heidän talossaan vieraana (siitä siis nimi Our Hospitality). Pian Buster"

Movies seen in 2012 (157 movies items)

"23.07. DVD, 1st viewing DIRECTED BY Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone Another fun film by Keaton. Lots of brilliant ideas: his rivals can't off him while he's a guest at their house, the extremely slow train trip, the rope chase, the waterfall scene etc. The ending is kind of typical and sudden, though. The father - out of the blue - remembers his good old Christ"

Watched in 2012 (115 movies items)

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