October’s inaugural “Silents Synced” presentation (pairing F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU with the music of Radiohead) was a huge hit with Central Cinema audiences, so we’re excited to kick off our February slate with their latest offering: a lively mashup of Buster Keaton’s timeless SHERLOCK JR (1924) and fuzzed-out barnstormers from R.E.M.’s MONSTER and NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI.

A kindly movie projectionist (Buster Keaton) longs to be a detective. When his fiancée (Kathryn McGuire) is robbed by a local thief (Ward Crane), the poor projectionist is framed for the crime. Using his amateur detective skills, the projectionist follows the thief to the train station — only to find himself locked in a train car. Disheartened, he returns to his movie theater, where he falls asleep and dreams that he is the great Sherlock Holmes.

“Keaton’s appreciation of the formal paradoxes of the medium is astounding; his observations on the relationship between film and the subconscious are groundbreaking and profound. And it’s a laugh riot, too.” – Chicago Reader

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