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  The Guardian

  Laurel and Hardy review – a dream of slapstick and sadness

  Stephen McNicoll and Barnaby Power make a consummate team as the comedy legends, delivering knockabout hilarity with a melancholy undertow

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  The Telegraph

  The golden age of silent films is back – it’s called TikTok

  Buster Keaton was so far ahead of his time, you have to wonder if cinema will ever overtake him. On a rainy afternoon in the recent half-term break, I introduced my seven and eight-year-old sons to his 1924 masterpiece Sherlock Jr: the one with the runaway motorcycle, the booby-trapped billiard ball, and, most famously, the projectionist who nods off on the job and dreams himself into the movies. And it left them both helpless with laughter. In 98 years, Keaton’s work hasn’t aged a week.

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  BANG Showbiz

  James Mangold to direct Buster Keaton biopic

  James Mangold will direct and produce a biopic on Hollywood legend Buster Keaton with 20th Century Studios.

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  Herald Scotland

  The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival returns, with Paul McGann and Mark Kermode

  THE annual Hippodrome silent film festival is returning to Bo’ness next month. After the pandemic cancelled the festival in 2020 and with last year’s held solely online, March will see the the popular festival, which celebrates the best of silent cinema,sreturn to the town on the River Forth with a packed programme and a number of star visitors.

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  The Independent

  Review: Silent star Buster Keaton rides again in 2 new books

  Two new books about silent film star Buster Keaton are appearing a century after he began to pack movie theaters

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  The Guardian

  Peter Bogdanovich: a loving cineaste and fearless genius of cinema

  The writer-director’s death at 82 leaves behind a legacy of impactful films, from The Last Picture Show to Mask, and also a deep love of the craft

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  The Independent

  'Pooh,' 'Sun Also Rises' among works going public in 2022

  “Winnie the Pooh” and “The Sun Also Rises” are going public

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  The Independent

  The Great Gatsby, Mrs Dalloway and Duke Ellington works hit public domain in 2021

  Copyright has expired in the US on works released in 1925

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  The Independent

  The First Degree: Long-lost Universal Pictures film found after almost 100 years

  A long-lost film from 1923 has been discovered after being stashed away in an unmarked box for almost 100 years.The rarity, which was presumed to be lost forever, is Universal Pictures’ The First Degree, a silent film telling the story of a sheep farmer who keeps a secret from his community.

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  The Guardian

  Silent witness: unseen Buster Keaton sketches underline his comic genius

  Silent witness: unseen Buster Keaton sketches underline his comic genius. Two previously unpublished scripts show how the Great Stone Face meticulously mapped out his stunts and jokes

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