"Actor: Buster"

• Film / Notfilm (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Film (Alan Schneider, 1965, 22 mins) is the Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett s only screenplay, starring the legendary Buster Keaton. Made in 1965 this short has been recently restored by Ross Lipman and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In his extensive Kino-Essay, Notfilm (2015, 129 mins), Ross Lipman explores the literary, cinematic and personal history surrounding the production. Citing clips from the work of Buñuel, Vertov, Vigo and Eisenstein, and featuring interviews with cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Billie Whitelaw and the film's producer Barney Rossey, Notfilm examines the project's themes and legacy in an original, creative and dynamic fashion. Also included is the rare 1979 British remake of Film starring comedian Max Wall. Special Features: The Street Scene (6 mins): A lost scene reconstruction from the film outtakes The Dog and Cat Takes (9 mins): Outtakes from the 1965 version of Film 'What if E's Eyes Were Closed?' (7 mins): Audio recordings of Beckett, Kaufman and Schneider (7 mins, with hard-of-hearing subtitles) Buster Keaton and Film: James Karen in Conversation (42 mins) Memories of Samuel Beckett: An Afternoon with James Knowlson (8 mins) Jeanette Seaver: Beckett and Godot (4 mins) Stills and Photo Gallery (TBC) Photographing Beckett (7 mins) The Music of NOTFILM: Downloadable MP3 recording by Mihály Víg (DVD only) Illustrated booklet with new writings by Ross Lipman, Michael Brooke and Vic Pratt

• Buster Keaton: The Complete Short Films 1917-1923 (Masters of Cinema) 4-Disc Blu-ray REISSUE | Blu Ray | (17/01/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Capturing Keaton's first steps in front of a camera, this box set charts his early association with ex-Keystone Kop Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle through to starring in, headlining, and directing his own box office smash hits. Using Chaplin's old Hollywood studios in 1920, Keaton's sophisticated technical inventiveness coupled with his haunted-yet-handsome 'Stone Face' persona, created a succession of the most timeless, classic comedy shorts ever realised. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present these films on Blu-ray from meticulous restorations.Featuring: The Butcher Boy (1917), The Rough House (1917), His Wedding Night (1917), Oh, Doctor! (1917), Coney Island (1917), Out West (1918), The Bell Boy (1918), Moonshine (1918), Good Night Nurse (1918), The Cook (1918), Backstage (1919), The Hayseed (1919), The Garage (1919), The High Sign * (finished 1920, released 1921), One Week* (1920), Convict 13* (1920), The Scarecrow (1920), Neighbors (1920), The Haunted House (1921), Hard Luck (1921), The Goat (1921), The Playhouse* (1921), The Boat* (1921), The Paleface (1922), Cops* (1922), My Wife's Relations (1922), The Blacksmith (1922), The Frozen North (1922), Daydreams (1922), The Electric House (1922), The Balloonatic (1923), The Love Nest (1923)* Audio Commentary availableProduct Features1080p presentations across four Blu-ray DiscsMultiple scores on selected titlesArchival audio commentaries by Joseph McBride on The 'High Sign', One Week, Convict 13, The Playhouse, The Boat, and CopsVersion of The Blacksmith containing four minutes of previously unseen footageAlternate ending for Coney IslandAlternate ending for My Wife's RelationsThat's Some Buster, video essay by critic and filmmaker David CairnsAn introduction by preservationist Serge BrombergThe Art of Buster Keaton, actor Pierre Étaix discusses Keaton's styleLife with Buster Keaton, Keaton re-enacts Roscoe Arbuckle's Salomé dance performed in The CookAudio recording of Keaton at a party in 1962.

• Only Fools & Horses: Series 6 | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You'll need no incentive to watch Series 6 of Only Fools and Horses beyond the knowledge that the very first episode of the six herein is the one in which Del takes that legendary pratfall when leaning against a non-existent bar counter. This is without doubt one of the greatest moments in British TV comedy. Other than that, what do we get? Well, this is the series in which Rodney first takes up with Cassandra. Gwyneth Strong's deftly underplayed, near-deadpan approach to the role of Rodney's soulmate is perhaps one of the most underrated elements in the show's entire run, even if the writers rather ran out of things to do with her almost at once. Ironically, then, despite her introduction, this isn't the strongest of Only Fools collections. Nevertheless, there are enough gems to remind you just why this show was such a success, among them the Spanish holiday episode in which Rodney has to pretend to be 14 and the propane-filled blow-up dolls episode, which really doesn't need a punchline. On the DVD: Only Fools and Horses, Series 6 two-disc set is presented in standard TV 4:3 ratio, with no special features--unless you count the injunctions on each disc's menu to insert the other disc if you want to watch the other episodes, "... you plonker!". --Roger Thomas

• The Complete Buster Keaton Short Films | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Containing thirty-two films - with a running time of over 700 minutes - this collection documents Buster Keatons short films between 1917-1923. Capturing Keaton's first steps in front of a camera this box set charts his early association with ex-Keystone Kop Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle through to headlining starring in and directing his own box office smash hits. Using Chaplin's old Hollywood studios in 1920 Keaton's sophisticated technical inventiveness coupled with his haunted-yet-handsome ""Stone Face"" persona created a succession of the most timeless classic comedy shorts ever realised. The Masters Of Cinema series presents the following films in a four-disc box set with audio commentary by Joseph McBride on six of the films and a 212-page book Films comprise: 1. The Butcher Boy (1917) 2. The Rough House (1917) 3. His Wedding Night (1917) 4. Oh Doctor! (1917) 5. Coney Island (1917) 6. Out West (1918) 7. The Bell Boy (1918) 8. Moonshine (1918) 9. Good Night Nurse (1918) 10. The Cook (1918) 11. Backstage (1919) 12. The Hayseed (1919) 13. The Garage (1919) 14. The ""High Sign""* (finished 1920 released 1921) 15. One Week* (1920) 16. Convict 13* (1920) 17. The Scarecrow (1920) 18. Neighbors (1920) 19. The Haunted House (1921) 20. Hard Luck (1921) 21. The Goat (1921) 22. The Playhouse* (1921) 23. The Boat* (1921) 24. The Paleface (1922) 25. Cops* (1922) 26. My Wifes Relations (1922) 27. The Blacksmith (1922) 28. The Frozen North (1922) 29. Daydreams (1922) 30. The Electric House (1922) 31. The Balloonatic (1923) 32. The Love Nest (1923) *features audio commentary

• Limelight (Chaplin Collection) | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The legend of silent films, Charlie Chaplin, plays an ageing music-hall comedian who befriends a young despondent ballet dancer, Terry (Claire Bloom). Terry is in slow recovery, learning to feel confident about life after her attempted suicide.Also included in the highlights is a famous Chaplin and Buster Keaton comedy skit in this Academy Award-winning film, as the two comedians portray faded stars seeking an audience in a contantly changing world.

• Only Fools And Horses - To Hull And Back | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A feature length episode of John Sullivan's popular comedy first broadcast as a Christmas special in 1985. Del and Rodney travel to Amsterdam to collect some diamonds on behalf of Boycie and Abdul little knowing that old adversary Chief Inspector Slater is hot on their trail. To make matters worse Uncle Albert is navigating their course from Hull to Holland!

• Only Fools And Horses - Time On Our Hands | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The third episode in the Only Fools and Horses Christmas Trilogy by John Sullivan It seemed the usual Trotter farce: Raquel's parents visiting for dinner Rodney doing a stock take (artifical leg Showaddywaddy LPs)... Then Raquel's antique dealing father makes a discovery in the lock up. Before you can say ""this time next year Rodders ..."" our heroes are in Sotheby's about to realise their dreams and finally become - millionaires!!

• The Christmas Dragon | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £1.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (87.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Medieval Europe Father Christmas is a fading memory, after Christmas hasn't come for several years. A young orphan girl, Ayden, receives a magic crystal from a dying elf, with a warning that the North has lost its magic, and that she alone can save Christmas. Ayden and her orphan friends begin a perilous journey, and must escape dragons, goblins, bandits, ogres and other fantasy creatures as they team up with Airk, the wayward son of Father Christmas, to return a stolen Christmas orb to the North. When Santa's magic cannot overpower the growing Snarl (an evil forest with tentacle branches), Ayden and Airk must deliver Christmas on a sleigh pulled by a young dragon, fulfilling Christmas wishes for children to restore Santa's magic and save Christmas.

• The Great Buster: A Celebration | DVD | (21/09/2020) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrating the life and career of one of America s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian whose landmark writings and films on such renowned directors as John Ford and Orson Welles have become the standard by which all other studies are measured.

• The Cameraman (1928) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (20/07/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BUSTER KEATON (The General) is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameramanthe first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece. The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decadelong run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop. Along the way, he goes for a swim (and winds up soaked), becomes embroiled in a Chinatown Tong War, and teams up with a memorable monkey sidekick (the famous Josephine). The marvellously inventive film-within-a-film setup allows Keaton's imagination to run wild, yielding both sly insights into the travails of moviemaking and an emotional payoff of disarming poignancy. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration undertaken by the Cineteca di Bologna, the Criterion Collection, and Warner Bros. New score by composer Timothy Brock, conducted by Brock and performed by the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2020, presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Glenn Mitchell, author of AZ of Silent Film Comedy: An Illustrated Companion Spite Marriage (1929), Buster Keaton's next feature for MGM following The Cameraman, in a new 2K restoration, with a 2004 commentary by film historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance Time Travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM, a 2004 documentary by film historians Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird New interview with James L. Neibaur, author of The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia PLUS: An essay by film critic Imogen Sara Smith

• In the Good Old Summertime | Blu Ray | (10/07/2023) from £13.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In The Summertime - A tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals - shares a celebrated movie lineage that includes James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail. In between those two, Judy Garland and Van Johnson had mail plus Gold Old tunes evoking an era of strawboaters and silvery moons. Sparked by Garland's comedic zest and musical appeal, this confection is one of the sweetest, most unpretentious entertainments of 1949 (Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical). It's also a nostalgic farewell and a sunny hello. Buster Keaton appears in his final film for the studio he first joined in 1928. And Liza Minnelli, all of 18 months young, makes her debut in the finale. Product Features Introduction by Jude Carland Biographer John Fricke Vintage Fitzpatrick TravelTalks Shorts Theatrical Trailer

• Only Fools And Horses - Modern Men | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £4.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (236.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Little Damien is growing up fast but little else has changed in Mandela Towers as Del Boy Rodders and Uncle Albert continue to lurch from one disaster to another. With the help of new man's manual Del is learning to give attention to Raquel - if only she'd stop talking while he's trying to read. Meanwhile Rodders 'accustomed to the security of an irregular wage' is applying for a new job. Can the Trotter business empire survive without him?

• FLASH GORDON/DIE KOMPLETT - CR | DVD | (21/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Only Fools And Horses - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £6.28   |  Saving you £13.71 (218.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Only Fools and Horses is perhaps the last great and universally popular British sitcom. Series 4 reached 1985; Grandad has sadly passed on, to be replaced at Nelson Mandela House by Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield). Only Fools and Horses improved with age and the fourth series was still confined to the half-hour format, is good but not vintage (that occurred during Delboy's "Yuppy" years). Episodes such as "It's Only Rock'n'Roll", in which Rodney joins a band, show all the failings sitcoms usually expose when getting to grips with such alien subject matter: the situations have yet to involve the full complement of the entire Nag's Head ensemble and there are still occasional disturbing racial references. However, Uncle Albert's introduction does bring the series up a notch, as his furtive brandy-swilling, yarn-spinning and doddery bungling swiftly get on Delboy and Rodney's wick (though he's not without some cleverly introduced pathos), while episodes such as "Watching the Girls Go By" and "As One Door Closes" build effectively up to the sort of big, laugh-out-loud final twists that would become the series' trademark. On the DVD: full screen, no special features, sadly, except scene selection. --David Stubbs

• Only Fools And Horses - All The Best - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The second installment of classic episodes from series 1-7! Friday The 14th: The Trotters are off to Boycie's cottage for a spot of salmon poaching. Unfortunately for them so is an escaped axe murderer! Thicker Than Water: Del and Rodney's dad returns after 18 years. Rodney is keen to forgive and forget but Del isn't so sure... Hole In One: Rodney's investment in suntan oil during the worst British winter since the last Ice Age has left the Trotters clos

• Only Fools And Horses - All The Best - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £4.46   |  Saving you £12.79 (399.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The first installment of the best episodes from Series 1-7 featuring 'Big Brother' 'The Russians Are Coming' 'A Losing Streak' 'No Greater Love' and 'A Touch Of Glass'.

• Flash Gordon -Trip To Mars | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  This is the original 1938 serial film based on the comic strip Flash Gordon series starring Buster Crabbe. Another crisis is striking the Earth: a fictional chemical element called nitron is vanishing from the atmosphere causing hurricanes and other meteorological disasters. Flash and Zarkov use an airplane to take measurements only to discover that a ray-beam from Mars is the source of the nitron depletion. A comical newspaper journalist Happy Hapgood arrives on the scene to get the scoop and stows away when they together with Dale Arden leave to investigate in Zarkov's rocket ship. They discover that Azura Queen of Mars is working with Ming the Merciless their old nemesis from Mongo not dead as they had believed to conquer earth. All Martians who oppose her have been turned into clay humanoids consigned to live in a world of clay-walled caverns beneath the Martian soil. Flash Zarkov Dale and Happy take refuge from the Martians in one of these caverns and are captured by the Clay People and taken to their Clay King. From him they learn what is transpiring between Queen Azura and Ming and anxiously agree to help. Chapters Comprise: 1. New Worlds To Conquer 2. The Living Dead 3. Queen Of Magic 4. Ancient Enemies 5. The Boomerang 6. Tree-Men Of Mars 7. Symbol Of Death 8. Incense Of Forgetfulness 9. Human Bait 10. Ming The Merciless 11. The Prisoner Of Mongo 12. The Black Sapphire Of Kalu 13. The Miracle Of Magic 14. A Beast At Bay 15. An Eye For An Eye

• Buster Keaton - The General | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The General

• Buster Keaton: 3 Films (Volume 2) (The Navigator, Seven Chances, Battling Butler) Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (30/03/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Between 1920 and 1929, Buster Keaton created a peerless run of feature films that established him as arguably the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies. Collected here are three further films from that era; The Navigator, Seven Chances and Battling Butler. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present all three films from stunning 4K restorations in their UK debuts on Blu-ray. The Navigator Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbour across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father has just sold to a small country at war. Keaton was unhappy with the audience response to Sherlock Jr., and endeavoured to make a follow-up that was both exciting and successful. The result was the biggest hit of Keaton's career. Seven Chances Jimmy Shannon (Keaton) learns he is to inherit seven million dollars, with a catch. He will only get the money if he is married by 7pm on his 27th birthday, which happens to be that same day! What follows is an incredible series of escalating set-pieces that could only have come from the genius of Buster Keaton. Battling Butler A rich, spoiled dandy (Keaton) pretends to be a champion boxer, Battling Butler , to impress the family of the girl he loves. When the real Butler shows up, he decided to humiliate the imposter by having him fight the Alabama Murderer! Special Features 1080p presentations of all three films from the Cohen Film Collection's stunning 4K restorations, with musical scores composed and conducted by Robert Israel The Navigator Audio commentary by silent film historians Robert Arkus and Yair Solan New and exclusive video essay by David Cairns covering all three films The Navigator A short documentary on the making of the film and Keaton's fascination with boats as sources of comedy, by film historian Bruce Lawton A selection of rarely heard audio interviews with Buster Keaton (Runtime TBC)

• The Great Buster: A Celebration | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £10.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrating the life and career of one of America s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian whose landmark writings and films on such renowned directors as John Ford and Orson Welles have become the standard by which all other studies are measured.