Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
I'm continuing my deep dive into silent movies, and am becoming a huge Buster Keaton fan in the process. Yesterday morning I watched his 1925 film Seven Chances. Somehow I had never seen it, although I had seen clips of the utterly (and justifiably) iconic scene of him running down a hillside while dodging boulders (how he kept from killing himself is anybody's guess). The more of his films that I watch, the more I understand why he's considered one of the greatest directors of all time. Highly recommended. I'm trying to convince my good friend David Rous that he's a dead ringer for Buster Keaton, which he doesn't see yet, but doubtless will as I pester him about it.
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