Reviews

This is a wonderful film. Quirky, funny, moving it's one of those films which gets under your skin. My skin, anyways. See it if you love Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals or great, offbeat movies.

This is my personal favourite Keaton film(Just above the General and Sherlock Jr)making me laugh continuously every time I watch it.It contains some of his all time best scenes- the prison sequence (Buster trying to convey to his father that yes he really does want the bread) and the hat shop (Self-referentialism goes way back-and was that a Chaplin Bowler he threw off in disgust?)and a touching father-son relationship-unusual in that Buster's relationships to other people in his films are usually fairly token. (Villain,girl)

And of course the cyclone sequence with one of the most famous shots in Silent Film history.

The amount of people who really seem to despise this film surprises me. It is obviously not to everyone's taste (what is?) but the love that went into it's making seems palpable to me. Added to which it's one of the funniest films I've ever seen, brilliantly acted and directed and has an individual feel all it's own.