Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

An authoritative film study of the career of the Little Tramp by the esteemed journalist Richard Schickel.

"...by: Richard Schickel. It’s been almost 115 years since Charles Chaplin, the scrawny progeny of a pair of down-at-the-heel..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: February 1914

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought

"...The icon that Charles Chaplin created at the age of 24 may be..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

In Print

As Chaplin historian David Robinson is happy to report in the introduction to Charlie Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema, "the raison d'etre of this book is not so much the text as the photographs."

"...Chaplin: Genius of the Cinemaby Jeffrey Vance..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM: Of Mayhem and Delight

The Keystone films, especially those of Charles Chaplin, reflected the present and heralded the future

"...The actors are Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand. Chaplin directed the film...."

Dec. 3, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...other program highlights like Woody Allen's Bananas and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, thumbing their noses at oppression under..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Shindig on Effie Street

The silent film comedians at Keystone Films lived their art

"...built its interior sets. This rough place is what Charles Chaplin found when he came to Keystone late in..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

In the world of Charlie Chaplin chaos reigns … and is celebrated: The Little Tramp turns 90

"...first screen appearance of a 23-year-old English clown named Charles Chaplin. (Who knows whether I'll be around to commemorate..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Musicians of Behavior

Actors are musicians of behavior

"...For instance, the character actor Charles Durning, who died on Christmas Eve at the age..."

May 2, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

13 Minutes

A plot to blow Hitler up goes wrong

"...you simply cannot top Bruno Ganz’s performance as the Charles Chaplin-Hater-in-Chief. Still, 13 Minutes – the title refers to..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

"...Rock & Roll with Gina Gershon, and the Charlie Chaplin documentary Charles: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin,..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Warner Bros. Pictures Tough Guys Collection

The end of an era on six discs

"...Chaplin Mutual Comedies: Restored 90th Anniversary Edition (Image; $59.99): "The..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Taking a Stand on Shorts

No mere calling card or stepping stone, the short film is enjoying a renaissance

"...films. From Georges Méliès' magical 1902 moon shot to Charles Chaplin's uneasy, queasy "The Immigrant," from Chuck Jones' Wile..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3am: The World That Calls Itself "the World"

We're capable of so much – and look what we've settled for

"...in the half-light listening to wistful music composed by Charles Chaplin, sipping my whiskey, and smoking a couple of..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Austin Film Festival: Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West

Cats and dogs living together

"...madcap tomfoolery that recalls comedic forebears Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin at their dynamic best...."

Oct. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Violet Criterion Arthouse Overload!

Violet Crown + Criterion = awesome!

"...Inagaki (Musashi Miyamoto – Samurai I, Tuesday, May 15), Charles Chaplin (The Gold Rush, Tuesady, June 5), and Jim..."

April 4, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Head of the Class

Spike & Mike sets aside its sick and twisted ways (for now) with New Generation Animation

"...tips its furry red hat to no less than Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator) to one of the most..."

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

"...his special conceptions. Not even auteur directors such as Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, John Cassavetes, and Stanley Kubrick would..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Rube Goldberg Spins in Grave, Invents Coolest Coffin Ever

Notes on Rube Goldberg and "The Collector"

"...Adventure (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

Page Two

If you want to cut government spending, legalize pot, plus more pearls on government spending (or lack thereof) and the Austin Film and Green festivals.

"...actress Gina Gershon), Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin, Girl With the Pearl Earring, Off the Map..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Scanlines

"...poke-your-eye-out figure as Tamblyn's hot-to-trot "aunt." With Lyle Talbot, Charles Chaplin, Jr., and Corman vet Mel Welles. Is it..."

March 20, 1998 Screens Feature

The Gold Rush

Charlie Chaplin wanted The Gold Rush to be the film we remember him by. It is, especially in the form of this two-disc release, and Steve Uhler explains why.

"...$29.95 There was a time when the visage of Charles Spencer Chaplin -- Charlie, Charlot, "The Little Tramp" --..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Letters at 3AM

The stakes were suddenly higher. There was more possibility in the night and in their lives than they'd yet considered. The work of art itself gave them the energy to fulfill its expectations...

"...of intense energy -- "for USE," as the poet Charles Olson said in capital letters. In this sense art..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Stage Beauty

Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.

"...Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Chaplin, Hugh Bonneville, Richard Griffiths and Edward Fox. Victor/Victoria meets..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Author? Author?

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

"...Henry James, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and present and former Supreme..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From the Source

"...His Girl Friday (1940) D: Howard Hawks; screenplay by Charles Lederer, from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature

Restoration

"...its milieu, the period in 17th-century English history when Charles II reclaimed the government of England -- the wayward..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Pieces of Time

The legendary Peter Bogdanovich discusses his latest film, The Cat's Meow, about a hush-hush Hearst scandal of long ago.

"...undisputed guests included comic hero and notorious womanizer Charlie Chaplin, pioneering producer Thomas Ince, ambitious gossip columnist Louella Parsons,..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...spiraling down level after level of Purgatory in the Charles de Gaulle Airport. A shuttle careens us to an..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Rolling Stones
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band

Live shots

"...MVP soul chorus Lisa Fischer, Bernard Fowler, and Blondie Chaplin, looked almost as rickety as canceled opener Merle Haggard...."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Heart and Souls

"...Directed by: Ron Underwood. Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick, Elisabeth Shue, Tom Sizemore, David Paymer..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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