Slapstick Live: Mighty Like a Moose + The Cameraman

Mi,01.05. am Klaviert Jonas Wilfert

Sa, 04.05. am Piano Neil Brand

So 05.05. 18:30 am Klavier Daan van den Hurk

Mighty Like a Moose [OV],
USA 1926, R: Leo McCarey mit Charley Chase, 23 Min

Brilliant mistaken identity comedy in which a husband and wife secretly change their appearance, don’t recognise each other and embark on an affair.

The Cameraman [OV],
USA Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton mit Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, 67 Min,

Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman—the 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, decade-long 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 marvelously 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. (Criterion.com)

Buster falls for a girl who works in a Newsreel office, and becomes a newsreel cameraman himself, unwittingly filming a Chinatown riot.