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.

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

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stealing Chaplin

Affable British comedy puts two dupes in Sin City

"...Charlie Chaplin is not buried in Las Vegas. That immediate..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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 said..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Unfriended

Social media strikes back in this grisly teen horror

"...people has been seen in films at least since Charlie Chaplin got caught in the cogs of his 1936..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tuvalu

"...Imagine, if you will, a beloved bastard child of Charlie Chaplin and Sergei Eisenstein, or of Jean Vigo and..."

March 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Silent Enemy

"...last silent film released -- except for the ever-reactionary Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936) --..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

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

The Gold Rush

"...Directed by: Charlie Chaplin. Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale and Mack Swain...."

Jan. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

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

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

Feb. 20, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

Modern, indeed

"...Charlie Chaplin's Modern TimesCriterion, $29.95..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

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

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

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Long Days of Journeys Into Nights

In quest of a simple metaphor

"...Up the Metaphor: Modern Times, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, was released in 1936. Although this was close..."

April 17, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The Zen of Filmmaking

Letters at 3AM

"...Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin was engaged in the improbable business of making..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Same As It Ever Was

South by Southwest and other lifetime labors of love

"...my friends bought Theodore Huff's thick, exhaustive biography on Charlie Chaplin at a library book sale. Long before ever..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

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.

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

Aug. 15, 2003 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Letters at 3AM

Seniors graduate into the world of the Bush junta.

"...pastiche of Ibsen, Shakespeare, Antigone, Roy Orbison, doo-wop tunes, Charlie Chaplin, Chopin, Tennessee Williams, scenes from The Birdcage and..."

June 13, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Sunnyside: A Novel

Glen David Gold follows his bestselling Carter Beats the Devil with another historical novel, this one starring Charlie Chaplin

"...putting an even bigger historical figure at the fore: Charlie Chaplin. Instead of using the Little Tramp as a..."

May 22, 2009 Books Review by James Renovitch

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...

"...Now I own virtually every film Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton ever made, and that collection..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Pieces of Time

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

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

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cat's Meow

"...attendees includes the crème of Hollywoodland's finest, among them Charlie Chaplin (Izzard) -- scheming to get into Davies' knickers,..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cinematexas 2002 International Short Film Festival

The ins and outs of the Cinematexas 2002 International Short Film Festival

"...short stuff can be so damn good, see Keaton, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, and W.C. Fields in "Silence," a..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

How far are you willing to go to make a picture?

"...filmmakers outstrip their legends and read like novels – Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Lillian Gish,..."

March 13, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: A Personal Journey, Part 1

Smelling the jasmine with Vince Martin and Fred Neil

"...jazz shows. We'd go see Dizzy Gillespie or a Charlie Parker tribute band in smoky, grownup, New York City..."

May 18, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Under the Big Top

TV Eye

"...put their time in one circus film or another; Charlie Chaplin was one of the first to tackle the..."

April 17, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

The Lost City

Bullock and Tatum find romance in this slapstick adventure

"...thought we’d see something like Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin, but this professor showed us Miss Congeniality...."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

The Sparks Brothers

Edgar Wright reveals the wonderful, mysterious Mael brothers

"...angel voice, and Ron, the tight-laced maniac with his Charlie Chaplin moustache (subject of a whole sequence in its..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cantinflas

Mexico's most beloved comedy film star gets the biopic treatment.

"...personality. Most of the other actors playing familiar faces (Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor, and the like) look nothing like..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: Articles of Faith

"That all things are possible is God"

"...a man's back pocket. I'd recently seen my first Charlie Chaplin feature, Limelight, for the stiff ticket price of..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Fatty and Mabel

On writing and muses in the bright, fresh morning

"...he began to concentrate on features. Arbuckle co-starred with Charlie Chaplin, and he gave Buster Keaton his break when..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Column by Louis Black

I Served the King of England

The new film from Czech New Wave hero Jirí Menzel presents a whimsical version of 20th century European history.

"...Jan Díte is a curious film creation: equal parts Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harpo Marx but with a..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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