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Binding: Video On Demand
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Running Time: 66 minutes
Sales Rank: 35975
Studio: Reel Enterprises
Theatrical Release Date: December 31, 1969
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Rating:  -
Because all the reviewers that have written about " College " here before have done the job this doesn't want to be a review of my own. The lines that comes next are a translation to english of an excerpt from a review that the surrealist spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel wrote in 1927 about this movie. For everyone who hasn't read it, here comes:
" Here's Buster Keaton with his most recent film, the splendid " College ". Asepsis. Disinfection. Freed from tradition our gaze revels in ... Read More
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(*Kino tape) COLLEGE is one of Buster's weaker silent features (it's still very good). He made College right after The General and was on a tight budget. College revolves around Buster's attempts to become an athlete to impress a girl. The best scenes are when Buster is a "colored" waiter. However, it is unfortunate that Buster used blackface because just about every laugh could have been realized without it. This tape also includes three shorts: THE ELECTRIC HOUSE, HARD LUCK and THE BLACKSMITH. ... Read More
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Buster Keaton does well here, but the movie lacks the sense of adventure and fun his better works. Still an important addition to any proper Keaton collection.
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While this VHS format of "College" may be considered a "Hollywood Classics Collector Edition" by some critics, it is certainly that, and something else; irritating to watch.
The story and the acting aside, the main problem is the substandard transfer from film to video. The result is a poor quality picture with loss of detail, poor focus, and exaggerated and disturbing contrasts of black and white. This is due, no doubt, to the poor decision by someone to transfer the video ... Read More
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The following review applies to the Kino VHS/DVD version that includes 3 Buster shorts as well as the main feature, "College".
COLLEGE (1927): Bus stars as the valedictorian of his high school who goes to college to exceed in athletics in order to impress the girl he's in love with. It's fun to watch him fail in all aspects of sports that the college offers, but I think he went too far to make himself look ridiculous at playing the game of baseball, which in reality he happened to ... Read More
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