Buster Keaton’s Three Ages

Buster Keaton’s first feature as writer-director, Three Ages (1923), is a brilliantly structured parody of the famous D.W. Griffith classic movie Intolerance, telling three parallel love stories set in the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and the Jazz Age. With breathtaking stunts and deadpan wit, Keaton proves that romance and folly are timeless — and physical comedy, eternal. With Mike Hatchard at the piano, providing new but perfectly matched music to go with the action.