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Yes, but does the music "approximate the sad stillness blowing through the corridors of Keaton’s mind"?

Guitarist Bill Frisell has released his scores for GO WEST, THE HIGH SIGN and ONE WEEK on a new DVD. Here is a review (likes the films, not the score):

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/937 ... obsession/

Anyone have any comments on Frisell's efforts?

Andrew Sholl - thanks so much for the great posting. I was aware of course of the French avant garde fans of Chaplin, Semon et al, but not at all of cummings' support of this comedian who I had never even heard of until a couple of days ago. One meat ball, indeed!

Thanks for the imput -- and the welcome. Do any of Savo's Fox shorts survive? And was he always directed (in the early 1920s) to imitate Keaton? IMDB has two of his Foxes posted - both directed by Slim Summerville. (SAY IT WITH FLOWERS was also a Fox.) His films don't seem to have been promoted by F...

Hi – long time reader, first time poster. Does anyone have a line on this individual? Here’s an Exhibitors Herald review of SAY IT WITH FLOWERS: The first reel of this comedy has nothing to do with flowers. It does take a lot of the stunts used by Buster Keaton, the elevator stuff, the sad face, loo...