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Any Film You Can Stream, Annotated Live by Voices You Trust

Watch along on TV, with your host’s scene-by-scene insights and live audience chat on your phone.

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Buster Keaton holding a railway tie on the front of a locomotive in The General (1926).

24:12 · Keaton and the railway tie

The General 1926

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The General 1926

00:24:12Next note · 24:12

Dev’s note · 24:12

Dev Ramaswamy

Keaton frames himself with the machinery so you can work out the danger. Watch his footing and the timber: you understand the physical problem before he finds a comic solution.

Live chat

Lena V.24:02

Made it, barely.

Ravi K.24:03

My first silent film and I’m hooked.

Ines D.24:04

Hello from Lisbon.

Grace H.24:05

My dad’s been on at me to watch this.

Priya S.24:06

Keaton did his own stunts, right?

Sam L.24:07

That train is enormous.

Theo R.24:08

Look how calm he is.

Mara T.24:10

He’s riding the cowcatcher.

Jon P.24:11

There’s a tie on the track.

Rosa M.24:12

I’m watching his feet now.

Owen K.24:12

You can see how little room he has.

Ade O.24:12

Don’t look away now.

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  1. Choose a film night

    Pick a film and host, then reserve your seat.

  2. Pair your TV

    Get the Projector app for iPhone and pair it with your TV. Then open the film on your streaming service before the start time.

  3. Join the screening

    Arrive at the scheduled time. Your host starts the film for everyone.

Watch what you love.

Meet a few imagined hosts and film nights. These are demonstrations of the format. Want to host? Apply here

A gold disc above angular green and rust landforms, crossed by a narrow cream path.

Kong: Skull Island 2017

Dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts

Hosted by Maya Chen

Film essayist

See how the filmmakers use the landscape to make an expedition feel small.

Demonstration only

Two intersecting conversational forms in cream and cobalt on a warm rose and rust field.

When Harry Met Sally… 1989

Dir. Rob Reiner

Hosted by Nina Brooks

Film podcaster

Follow the glances and pauses that the actors use to build chemistry.

Demonstration only

Repeated signal lines within an off-centre doorway, interrupted by a cobalt plane and a long charcoal shadow.

The Conversation 1974

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Hosted by Elliot Reed

Film critic

Listen to what Harry filters out. As he separates a voice from its surroundings, he strips away context.

Demonstration only

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  • Ask your host a question, answer a poll or stay for the post-film talk-back.

  • Your host pauses and calls intermission. Use your phone as the remote for a break of your own.

  • After a snack break or an ad, pick up where you left off with notes and chat timed to your place in the film.

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The General (1926)

This publicity still shows Buster Keaton on the front of a locomotive in The General (1926). UCLA holds the original in its Motion Picture Stills Collection. The preview crops the still to fill each screen. Its clock does not identify the photograph’s exact moment in the film. In his note, Dev explains how Keaton frames the action, drawing on criticism of Keaton’s visual storytelling.

View the still on Wikimedia CommonsRead about Keaton’s framing at the Directors Guild of America

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