Buster Keaton’s The General is a classic tale of boy meets locomotive, boy loses locomotive, boy wins locomotive back. Neil Mudd meets Ric Elsworth, one half of Unsilent Movies, who performed a live accompaniment to the movie at this year’s Leeds International Film Festival in the exalted surrounding of the world famous City Varieties. Hilarity ensues.
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Let’s Get Lost | Ian Duhig & Philippa Troutman
The paradox of a blind man building a straight road led poet Ian Duhig to Laurence Sterne’s Shandy Hall in North Yorkshire. Along with artist and print-maker Philippa Troutman, he then set about losing himself. Neil Mudd discovers that the devil is in the details.
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