Buster Keaton and the Art of the Gag (2015) [video]

Still the benchmark for all these video essays. My wife has used the videos in an introduction to film analysis class. Truly a great resource

I've been subscribed for a long time and wondered what ever happened to the channel. It's an excellent series and I'm bummed to know it's done.

Your comment led me to looking up the postmortem, which is well written and educational.

https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc

I own a copy of My Lunches with Orson and can confirm it's a fantastic read. Not everything Welles says is strictly true, of course -- he was a legendary self-mythologizer, and here what he's saying is getting to us filtered through Jaglom as well -- but he certainly seems like a guy it would have been fun to have lunch with!

I truly miss this channel. Even the short video about chairs was great.

Jackie Chan once credited Buster Keaton as an influence on his own acting and film making, which, in my book, makes him a cultural-epochal appropriator. Late 20th century Hong Kong film actors must not be allowed to imitate or mock early 20th century Hollywood silent film actors.

That makes me smile, people used to say Jackie Chan was the Hong Kong Buster Keaton.