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Rami Malek in Talks to Play Buster Keaton in Matt Reeves-Produced Series

Photo by USA Network/Michael Parmelee/USA Network – © 2016 USA Network Media, LLC/Image courtesy mptvimages.com Discussions asre underway at Warner Bros. Television to develop a new limited series about Buster Keaton, the iconic comedian who delighted audiences a century ago during the silent-film era. If all goes as planned, Batman director Matt Reeves would direct and…

Japan Society’s Flash Forward Series: Talking the Pictures, Is A Wistful Limerick To The Japanese Silent Film Era

If in 2011, the Western World tributed the realm of Silent Film with the comedy-drama The Artist (that scooped five Academy Awards), in 2019 the Land of the Rising Sun made its homage to that same cinematic era, with Talking the Pictures, directed by Masayuki Suo. The motion picture is currently part of Japan Society’s…