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Access to cinema with adequate subtitling is still a massive problem for Deaf audiences around the world, but there’s one genre of film where that issue just doesn’t arise: silent film. indeed, support from the Deaf community is part of what has helped to keep the treasures of the silent era alive. This film reflects that love, using the techniques of the silent era – in black and white, of course – to tell a contemporary story about a Deaf actor looking for a job.

It’s a film which you’ll get a lot more out of it you have some familiarity with the silent classics, as it’s full of affectionate references thereto, and it also makes use of a number of famous locations which it’s intriguing to see as they are today. Perhaps its biggest coup is the participation of Buster Keaton’s great granddaughter, Keaton Talmadge.

In today’s film news roundup, the City of Los Angeles sets Buster Keaton Day and deals are made for “The Life, Blood and Rhythm of Randy Castillo” and dance drama “All Styles.”

Honor

The City of Los Angeles has declared that June 16 will be Buster Keaton Day in honor of the pioneering comedian and filmmaker.

A bronze plaque commemorating the location of a movie studio where both Keaton and Charlie Chaplin created their timeless comedies in the early part of the 20th Century will be dedicated at 4 p.m. on June 16 at 1021 Lillian Ave., near the intersection of Eleanor Avenue and Lillian Way in Los Angeles. The dedication and and several other events have been organized by the International Buster Keaton Society to remedy the incorrect placement of a similar plaque in 1988.

Scheduled guests include Los Angeles councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, film historian Leonard Maltin, and members of Keaton’s family,...