Mack Sennett

And as long as I've invoked the name of Mack Sennett, I should also note that everyone having their reasons is a maxim most famously enunciated by Jean Renoir, who might have recognized his own spaciousness of spirit in the film's generosity toward its conflicting and conflicted characters.

'A Separation' Comes Together Exceptionally Joe Morgenstern 2011

When a good character like Jacobowsky or Mack Sennett comes along, I get just as excited.

A Composer's 'Grand Tour' Marches On Will Friedwald 2011

If Peter Sellars can stage Così fan tutte in a contemporary diner, this Turk will update the action to an Airstream camp-trailer, out of which a score of gypsies file as if from a Mack Sennett two-realer.

Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

If Peter Sellars can stage Così fan tutte in a contemporary diner, this Turk will update the action to an Airstream camp-trailer, out of which a score of gypsies file as if from a Mack Sennett two-realer.

Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

If Peter Sellars can stage Così fan tutte in a contemporary diner, this Turk will update the action to an Airstream camp-trailer, out of which a score of gypsies file as if from a Mack Sennett two-realer.

Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

If Peter Sellars can stage Così fan tutte in a contemporary diner, this Turk will update the action to an Airstream camp-trailer, out of which a score of gypsies file as if from a Mack Sennett two-realer.

Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

Sony Pictures Classics Leila Hatami as Simin in 'A Separation' When admirers asked Mack Sennett how he went about creating his classic silent comedies, he would describe the basic principle as "One thing leads to another."

'A Separation' Comes Together Exceptionally Joe Morgenstern 2011

And, you know, in a lot of Mack Sennett comedies, Fatty Arbuckle always was the sweetheart of Mabel Normand, and there was always a jilted suitor like Al St. John who always caused trouble.

Oafs, Cheaters And Jerks: Film's Worst Boyfriends 2010

And, you know, in a lot of Mack Sennett comedies, Fatty Arbuckle always was the sweetheart of Mabel Normand, and there was always a jilted suitor like Al St. John who always caused trouble.

Oafs, Cheaters And Jerks: Film's Worst Boyfriends 2010

But Richardson, 45, has an imdb. com resume so long and impressive -- nearly 300 acting credits in less than two decades -- that you'd think he were working in the era of Mack Sennett.

COMIC-CON 2010: 'Cleveland Show's' KEVIN MICHAEL RICHARDSON voices his fandom of Macfarlane, McGruder and The Batman 2010