Buster Keaton is back on Blu-ray with Eureka and Masters of Cinema. In GO WEST, Friendless hops a freight train and ends up on an Arizona farm where he meets the love of his life: a heifer. In OUR HOSPITALITY, a New Yorker travels down South to Kentucky to claim an estate, unaware that his family is involved in a blood feud with a local family. In COLLEGE, studious Ronald takes up sports to win a girl with much hilarity involved.
REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)
BUSTER KEATON: THREE FILMS Blu-ray specs:
- DISC ONE - Go West:
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Fullscreen
- Rodney Sauer and the Mont Alto Orchestra Score LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Audio Commentary by film historians Joel Goss and Bruce Lawton
- "A Window on Keaton" video essay by David Cairns
- "Go West: Filming Locations" video essay by John Bengtson
- "Go West" 1923 comedy short directed by Len Powers, produced by Hal Roach
- Still Gallery
- DISC TWO - Our Hospitality:
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Fullscreen
- Carl Davis Score LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Audio Commentary by silent film historian Rob Farr
- "Hospitality" early workprint version of "Our Hospitality"
- Audio Commentary by Keaton expert Polly Rose
- "Making Comedy Beautiful" video essay by Patricia Eliot Tobias
- Stills Gallery
- DISC THREE - College:
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Fullscreen
- Rodney Sauer Score LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- "Silent Echoes" video essay by John Bengtson
- "The Railrodder" 1965 short produced by the National Film Board of Canada and starring Buster Keaton in one of his final film roles
- Audio Commentary with director Gerald Potterton and cameraman David De Volpi
- "Buster Keaton Rides Again" 1965 documentary feature produced concurrently with, the filming of "The Railrodder"
- Audio Recording of a post-screening Q&A with The Railrodder director Gerald Potterton, and David De Volpi
- "College" Stills Gallery
- "The Railrodder" Stills Gallery
- Limited edition slipcase with the first 2,000 units
- 60-page perfect bound collector’s book featuring new writing by Philip Kemp; essays on all three films by Imogen Sara Smith; a piece by John Bengtson on the filming locations of Our Hospitality; Gerald Potterton’s original treatment for The Railrodder; and an appreciation of Keaton and The Railrodder by writer and silent cinema aficionado Chris Seguin
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