For his second book of Great Movies, Roger Ebert just had one entry labeled Buster Keaton. He thought he was more of a genius then Chaplin, which has always been the original silent rap battle ;)

I always heard such great things about CHimes at Midnight and I'm glad to know that it's finally available for the masses. Ebert said he saw it at a film festival in 1967 and wasn't able to see it for another 37 years and then only on a DVD that had been released in Brazil.

I should be honest my parents watched a lot of Ingmar Bergman during lockdown and are fiercely divided on it. My father is still convinced he's a genius; my mother honestly thinks most of his movies make her want to kill herself. There's something to be said about Bergman's films that I'll say:

One of his wives saw a screening of one of the films in his God Trilogy (I think it was Through a Glass Darkly. Bergman asksd her what he thought of it.

"It's a masterpiece. But Ingmar, it's a dreary masterpiece."

Needless to say the marriage didn't last.

I acknowledge Bergman's a genius but god he's a depressing genius. I don't know what it is about Scandanavia that makes the movie makers there so strnage. I'm reminder OF Lars Von Trier who makes Bergman look like Walt Disney and Thomas Vittenberg who has a very depressing view of traditional subjects. Maybe it's not having sunlight six months of the year.