From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.
Jodorowsky's Dune
2013
7.8/10
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972
6.2/10
Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
6.9/10
Side by Side
2012
7.3/10
Looking for Richard
1996
6.8/10
Maria by Callas
2017
7.3/10
Cameraperson
2016
6.7/10
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
6.9/10
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
1942
6.5/10
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.4/10
This Changes Everything
2019
6.2/10
Back in Time
2015
6.5/10
Katy Perry: Part of Me
2012
7.1/10
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
6.8/10
Pavarotti
2019
7.3/10
180° South
2010
7.2/10
The Irishman: In Conversation
2019
7.5/10
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
2000
7.3/10
Everything or Nothing
2012
7.2/10
The Water Map
2024
5.2/10
