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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Keaton again combines romantic underdog stakes, immaculate visual gags, and daring physical comedy, with a filmmaking setting that extends Sherlock, Jr.’s affectionate fascination with movies.
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Why this pick
Harold Lloyd gives a similarly gentle, inventive silent comedy: a slight young man turns detective-like resourcefulness and escalating physical predicaments into an unexpectedly tender romance.
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Why this pick
Chaplin’s outsider hero finds romance amid an environment built for performance, delivering silent visual invention and a wistful comic tenderness close to Sherlock, Jr.’s dreamlike charm.
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Why this pick
Though far less plot-driven, Tati’s meticulous frame-wide choreography and gentle observational comedy offer the same delight in visual precision and comedy that unfolds without dialogue.
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Why this pick
Its moviegoing fantasy and warmly melancholy play with the boundary between screen and life make it a natural companion to Sherlock, Jr.’s cinephile imagination.
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01 / THE STORY
A movie theater projectionist and janitor (Buster Keaton) is in love with a beautiful girl (Kathryn McGuire). However, he has a rival, the "local sheik" (Ward Crane). Neither has much money. The projectionist buys a $1 box of chocolates, all he can afford, and changes the price to $4 before giving it and a ring to her. The sheik steals and pawns the girl's father's pocket watch for $4. With the money, he buys a $3 box of chocolates for the girl. When the father notices his watch is missing, the sheik slips the pawn ticket into the projectionist's pocket unnoticed. The projectionist, studying to be a detective, offers to solve the crime, but when the pawn ticket is found in his pocket, he is banished from the girl's home.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Sherlock, Jr.
