Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 319: Sun Nov 25

The General (Keaton, 1926): Electric Cinema, Portobello, 2pm


This is part of the season which marks the 50th anniversary of the Electric Cinema Club, when the Electric Portobello's programming inspired the likes of Stephen Frears and Nic Roeg, and spawned any number of cineastes.

Chicago Reader review:
Buster Keaton may have made more significant films, but The General (1927) stands as an almost perfect entertainment. Keaton is a locomotive engineer in the Civil War south whose train is hijacked by Union spies; his attempts to bring it back become a strangely moving and very funny account of man's love for machine. Marion Mack is the girl, who can't quite compete.
Dave Kehr


Here (and above) is the trailer.

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