Jana Prikryl

Jana Prikryl is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. Her writing has appeared in The Nation and The New Yorker. (June 2011)

  • The Genius of Buster

    June 9, 2011

    The Best of Buster twelve feature-length and twelve short films by Buster Keaton,

    A Hard Act to Follow a documentary directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (1987)

    Buster Keaton: Interviews edited by Kevin W. Sweeney

    The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for M-G-M, Educational Pictures, and Columbia by James L. Neibaur

    Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts, 1934–37 Kino, DVD, $34.95

    The General a film directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman (1926)

    Steamboat Bill, Jr. a film directed by Charles F. Reisner (1928)

    Sherlock, Jr./Three Ages films directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline (1924/1923)

    Our Hospitality a film directed by Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone (1923)

    The Short Films Collection, 1920–1923 nineteen films directed by Buster Keaton and others