Buster Keaton

other anarchic comedic force may have not come to fruition. If one thing is for sure, the pressing need for progressive and boundary pushing comedy would have lacked a vital ingredient. In the pantheon of classic American comedy there is Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd. Whereas those three opened the door for film comedy, it would be fair to say the Marx Brothers broke the door from its hinges and Mel Brooks demolished the doorframe. The thirteen Marx Brothers films serve as a testament to the…

Bradshaw wrote in a review of Exit Through the Gift Shop in The Guardian, “As a documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop is as about as reliable and structurally sound as that house-front with the strategically placed window that falls on top of Buster Keaton. As entertainment, though, it works very well.” The filmmaker actively seeks to make categorization and classification of the film difficult by incorporating and retaining elements of a documentary and a direct cinema style while still…