Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
How celebrity worship has metastasized into the defining American obsession
"...of modern celebrity with a dismissive quote from Charlie Chaplin, one of the first movie titans to find himself..."
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Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones
AFF Honors Chris Carter, Announces First Wave
Outstanding TV Writing Award for 'X-Files' creator
"...actors and scholars, including Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, and many others have struggled to reconcile England’s “Star..."
Aug. 28, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward
Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all
"...All the way to 1919, when D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks – in a bid..."
Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Man With a Movie To Score
Justin Sherburn sounds off on an avant-garde, Soviet silent
"...contemporary," Sherburn says. "I love Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but their movies are corny and campy; they're for..."
July 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
A Closer Look at the Paramount Lineup
Spike Lee, Amy Heckerling to present films
"...
Chaplin in the Sound Era (Stateside)
Friday, June 8
..."
May 15, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
All Over Creation: Laugh Lines
A week of unexpected comic relief brought lessons in laugh-making
"...bones, and my teachers were all top bananas: Keaton, Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Bert Lahr, Laurel and Hardy, Burns and..."
April 6, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Violet Criterion Arthouse Overload!
Violet Crown + Criterion = awesome!
"...(Musashi Miyamoto – Samurai I, Tuesday, May 15), Charles Chaplin (The Gold Rush, Tuesady, June 5), and Jim Jarmusch..."
April 4, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
Here Today ...
Choreographer Sharon Marroquín lets go through dance in order to live
"...of vintage luggage. Video by Wolfson renders Marroquín a Chaplin-esque silent-film character as she engages in a Sisyphean struggle..."
March 23, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz
National Film Registry Welcomes 'El Mariachi'
Rodriguez's debut joins Bambi, Hannibal Lecter, and Forrest Gump
"...include Sally Fields' Oscar turn as Norma Rae, Charlie Chaplin's first film The Kid, George Pal's 1953 production of..."
Dec. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
After a Fashion
Learn why Your Style Avatar is running around, flapping his arms, and shouting 'bingo!'
"...a red sequined gown from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat; Rudolph Valentino's "suit of lights" matador costume..."
June 10, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Stickmen With Ray Guns
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Steam
"...But something happened on the way to the Chaplin-esque modern times we live in. Steampunks became crafters not..."
April 29, 2011 Books Feature by Marc Savlov
Target Markets
The Quintessential Guy Maddin!
"...Also Recommended in Arthouse: Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
(The Criterion Collection, $39.95, Blu-ray);
The Complete..."
Nov. 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar
Letters at 3AM: The Dragon on Sennett's Hill
Hollywood is an electric dragon
"...included the very place we lived. Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Harry Langdon, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard,..."
March 12, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura
The Wolfman
This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.
"...Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Geraldine Chaplin, Art Malik, Malcolm Scates and David Sterne. You have..."
Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Endgame
Palindrome Theatre's debut squeezes all the meaning it can from Beckett's bleakness
"...of homages to the clowning of Buster Keaton and Chaplin, and Endgame is no different. This near-slapstick humor is..."
Jan. 29, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam
Was It Good for You?
The year in books
"...historical novel, Gold spins several memorable yarns with Charlie Chaplin at their centers. By creating believable human characters –..."
Jan. 1, 2010 Books Feature by James Renovitch
Me and Orson Welles
Richard Linklater has crafted a joyful period charmer about that moment before a boy becomes a man and another man becomes a mythological figure.
"...Linklater. Starring: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly, James Tupper and..."
Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Head of the Class
Spike & Mike sets aside its sick and twisted ways (for now) with New Generation Animation
"...its furry red hat to no less than Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator) to one of the most heartbreaking..."
Dec. 4, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Letters at 3AM: Georges Méliès' Tricks and Treats
Creating the possibility that anything could happen onscreen was the great contribution of Georges Méliès
"...special conceptions. Not even auteur directors such as Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, John Cassavetes, and Stanley Kubrick would personally..."
Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura
The Other Blondie
Blondie Chaplin's musical journeys
"...break outside an unassuming complex near Zilker Park, Blondie Chaplin leans against a parked car and grins at his..."
Aug. 27, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser
Rube Goldberg Spins in Grave, Invents Coolest Coffin Ever
Notes on Rube Goldberg and "The Collector"
"...(variations on similar rude, meal-time mechanicals appeared in Charles Chaplin's Modern Times and Woody Allen's Sleeper...."
July 23, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
What Comes 'Up' ...
Director Pete Docter on the intersection of uplift and melancholy
"...sorrow at work here – the rueful yearning of Chaplin's equally fanciful Tramp, or Buster Keaton's stone-faced stoic. Which..."
May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Page Two: Looking Up
Along the path back to wonder
"...and even Ford again; Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Charlie Chaplin but especially Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Buster Keaton!..."
May 22, 2009 Column by Louis Black
Letters at 3AM
Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up
"...kind of close-up in "The Musketeers of Pig Alley." Chaplin used a genuine close-up in 1914's "The Rival Mashers."..."
April 24, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura
Mister Z Loves Company
Rubber Repertory's revival is a marriage of depravity and delight, of filth and fantasy
"...best pioneers of the silent film era (think: Keaton, Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy) perpetrated in their own heady days...."
April 17, 2009 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Page Two: Opportunity Born Anew
In working together as Americans, there is hope
"...home as well. Now – most classically by Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, but also in dozens of..."
Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Louis Black
Bewitched
AFS Essential Cinema: I Married a Witch: Fredric March's comic curse
"...Nous la Liberté between 1927 and 1931 rival early Chaplin, was one of the director's forebears. Sturges foisted on..."
Oct. 10, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Wedding Weekend
This earnest, well-acted ensemble film is a seriocomic meditation on what it means to be an American male approaching the dreaded four-oh.
"...Reaser, David Alan Basche, Rosemarie DeWitt, Reg Rogers, Alexander Chaplin, Liz Stauber, Samrat Chakrabarti, Chris Bowers and Camilla Thorsson...."
May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Lubitsch Musicals: Eclipse Series 8
There's a provocative postscript left off Lubitsch Musicals: pre-Code
"...films, it's Ana Torrent in this film," insists Geraldine Chaplin in a second-disc doc. "Totally."..."
March 21, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...the Scottish Highlands, where she lives with husband "Charlie Chaplin" and daughter "Shirley Temple," along with Abe Lincoln, Sammy..."
