Product Details

• Actors: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane, Wallace Beery, Margaret Leahy
• Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline
• Format: AC-3, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Silent, Special Edition, Surround Sound
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
• DVD Release Date: November 16, 2010
• Run Time: 140 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0041CGOZI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,110 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Kino International Release Date: 11/16/2010 Run time: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Cinematic Genius, December 9, 2010

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Phillip - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sherlock Jr. / Three Ages [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

This Buster Keaton classic has never looked better than than on this newly released Blu Ray disc......Sherlock Jr is 44 minutes of perpetual motion............not a half second of down time in his baby. This movie is VERY funny with jaw dropping stunts by Keaton himself. I can see why Welles and other giants consider Keaton the best director ever.

This movie deserves 10 stars especially considering what passes for 5 stars on Amazon.

Not to be missed!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well, that takes care of THAT!, December 3, 2010

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Mark Pollock "educator" (Davis, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sherlock Jr. / Three Ages [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Wow. This is great.

I really did not need Three Ages on Blu-Ray, but it's nice to have.

Sherlock Jr., though, is fantastic. A very nice transfer, with a tiny bit of missing material added. Some good featurettes added as well. Nice music choices for the soundtrack as well. (THis is the one Alloy Orchestra score I like.)

It just looks GREAT! Kudos, Kino!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Keaton 5 stars, Kino 0, November 17, 2011

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R. Overton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sherlock Jr. / Three Ages [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

SHERLOCK Jr. is widely considered, along with THE GENERAL, to be a Keaton masterpiece.

In fact, critical opinion has shifted away from Chaplin--a brilliant mime but sentimental, naive politically,

and ingratiating to the point of being painful to watch sometimes--and toward Keaton as the major

innovator who really understood, almost immediately, the difference between making a movie

and just filming warmed-over vaudeville routines. SHERLOCK, Jr. even feels positively

"post-modern" in its self-reflection, it's that far ahead of its time. It's brilliant! So: always 5 stars from me

for the tough genius of Keaton.

But Kino is another matter. They've done a decent transfer of SHERLOCK, Jr.--though not the best Blu-ray B&W I've seen.

The issue for me here is THREE AGES; Kino seems to have done nothing in terms of cleaning up the transfer.

As another reviewer has commented, it looks terrible! It doesn't look any different than the version

in the original Kino box set of Keaton features and shorts released in the early '90s.

The reason, I think, is revealed in the restoration philosophy announced in Kino's Blu-ray 3-disc release of all 19 of the early shorts.

Some have 2 versions, the original and a 2nd transfer with digitally enhanced noise reduction for those of us

who prefer a more "polished look"--their words. Apparently this goes against their video principles,

since digital cleaning "subtly undermines the integrity of the image." Give me a break.

What's the point of releasing a Blu-ray version of "films that show wear" with no cleaning up of the transfer?

All the process does then is give us a more detailed look at the flaws. To me it sounds like an excuse

for sloppiness, or laziness. They could take a lesson from Criterion's handling of B&W Blu-rays, which are worth the extra money

because they look better. I was planning on eventually buying Kino's Blu-rays of the other Keaton features they've released.

But why just duplicate what I already have in those previous releases?