Buster Keaton (1928)

Watching Pen15 and seeing them as little girls, even though they’re played by these grown women, had me bawling my eyes out. Watching the popular girls be racist to Maya and then her mimicking them and not knowing what it meant until her brother said something. Then when Anna realized she was part of the problem and she should’ve spoke up and she apologized. The show is so wholesome, and sad.

Anna going through her parents divorce and how it’s affecting her life, the relationship with her father once he’s moved out. Her feeling like she has to step up and take care of him, while also being told not to, and being met with no appreciation. It’s just so much like what 13 was for me with my parents splitting that it breaks my heart for her.

This show makes you cry and laugh, and sometimes Maya’s outbursts are almost hard to watch, but they’re just little girls.

Buster Keaton filming the famous falling house stunt for Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1927)

Trainspotting (1996)

God, the Yuki episode of Pen15 is so good. It's like a brilliant short movie completely seperate from the show. Most of the time when a TV show does an episode concentrating on a side character it feels a bit like a filler, but this is the exact opposite. From the opening shot of Yuki at the merch stand, to the disability sign & her playacting the leg injury to the juxataposition of the breakfast and the dinner, it's all done with so much care. The Japanese dialogue was so Japanese, so "different" from the rest of the American dialogue that it really made it feel like watching a Japanese art house movie and drove the point home about how torn she felt - even if there hadnt been the heartfelt ending. Wow, what an exploration of culture clashes and aging and family in 30 minutes. In a "cringe humor" TV show.

Buster at the premiere of ‘Hell’s Angels’ (1930)

Just a clip of his beautiful voice in preparation to submit it to the next round of the hotvintagepoll

Buster Keaton surrounded by girls in The Cameraman, 1928

Background art for Disney’s Winnie the Pooh