event Sherlock Jr.
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Sun Feb 12
2 pm
Sherlock Jr. at Chazen Museum of Art
The best Buster Keaton films are defined by their signature sequences. The 1924 fantasia Sherlock Jr. has plenty of magical moments strewn across its story of a projectionist who becomes an amateur detective, but the scene everyone rightly remembers is the one where the stone-faced comic falls asleep and dreams himself onto a movie screen, facing peril with every cut. It’s a concept that’s been repeated to great (The Purple Rose Of Cairo) and not-so-great (Last Action Hero) effect, but never with such transporting magic.
Chazen Museum of Art 800 University Ave, Madison, WI
The best Buster Keaton films are defined by their signature sequences. The 1924 fantasia Sherlock Jr. has plenty of magical moments strewn across its story of a projectionist who becomes an amateur detective, but the scene everyone rightly remembers is the one where the stone-faced comic falls asleep and dreams himself onto a movie screen, facing peril with every cut. It’s a concept that’s been repeated to great (The Purple Rose Of Cairo) and not-so-great (Last Action Hero) effect, but never with such transporting magic.
Updated 02/03/2012
