Mister Lonely

Oddly, Harmony Korine's film may be his most accessible as a director, featuring characters and images that are unforgettable – even if they don't add up to a complete narrative or visual whole.

"...nursing home in Paris. Marilyn, who is married to Charlie Chaplin (Lavant), with whom she has a daughter, Shirley..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Author? Author?

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

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

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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"...didn't want to do. As in Modern Times, when Charlie Chaplin, turning the wrong corner, finds himself leading a..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest...."

Oct. 10, 2003 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Twenty Flight Rock

The Art of Bob Dylan; The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez-Fariña and Richard Fariña

"...likes of Robert Browning, Memphis Minnie, John Bunyan, and Charlie Chaplin, Gray studies Dylan's grasp of the literary, blues,..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Skulls

"...like a cross between Bill Clinton and an aging Charlie Chaplin is all you need to see to realize..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...pictures move around onscreen, the Alamo Drafthouse, will present Charlie Chaplin's 1925 classic The Gold Rush, accompanied by live..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Barton Springs Eternal

"...point, as they had to cancel their showing of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, with live accompaniment by Tosca, last..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Postman (Il Postino)

"...burning awkwardness. His body language is vaguely reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin's: With soulful gazes and expressive hands he conveys..."

July 7, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Delicatessen

Set in some sort of post-apocalyptic Parisian deli o' the damned, this is a lunatic's take on the future of man.

"...to pinpoint the source of a bed's obnoxious squeaking, Charlie Chaplin. It might be argued that the visual aspects..."

June 5, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Review: Alchemy Theatre’s Mack & Mabel

Intimate staging bests Broadway’s Hollywood tragedy

"...Helena Rubinstein in War Paint, and silent film star Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin. Hell, it takes a few minutes..."

May 26, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Everything Went Black: 'Intro'

Marc Savlov has a weekly film column. Uh-oh

"...Great example: Charlie Chaplin's entire oeuvre is positively drowning in oceans of..."

Aug. 22, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Homage To An Old Marquee

"...to see it. The silent films of people like Chaplin had been out of circulation for 30 years. You..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Curriculum I: 10 Movies to Know America By

"...10. The Mack Sennett-Charlie Chaplin short silent comedies -- Made mostly in 1914,..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Book Review: Edendale by Michael Ventura

Former “Letters at 3am” columnist celebrates the early days of Hollywood in new novel

"...two-reel “flickers” for Keystone and co-starring opposite a young Charlie Chaplin in his earliest film appearances. Mabel becomes a..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...("May the Lord have mercy on your soul") to Charlie Chaplin, he responded, "Why not? After all, it belongs..."

April 1, 2022 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Fun With "M.O.P.Z." at 2am

Todd Rohal puts laughs on fast-forward with new Adult Swim special

"...Wampler into bed. Appropriately, much like a worn 1936 Chaplin print being improperly projected by a high school cinema..."

April 12, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago

On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup

"...2014. On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup. That..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

And I Would Watch 100 Films

And I would watch 100 more

"...silent pictures – e.g., Intolerance, The Thief of Bagdad, Chaplin's The Kid – the Congress Avenue institution will barrel..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years

April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to

"...clown of cinema. Those who followed – Roscoe Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd – would begin by..."

March 23, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...to be the story of a clown (played by Charlie Chaplin) who goes blind but has to hide the..."

March 2, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Funny Ha-Ha in a Half-Dozen Languages

AFS Essential Cinema presents Making the World Laugh: Global Comedy

"...the series goes back in time 60 years for Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux. Based on an idea by Orson..."

May 30, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

From the Source

"...Bringing Up Baby (1938) and Charlie Chaplin's comedies – e.g., The Gold Rush (1925), The..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature

Short Cuts

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

Aug. 1, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...spend only a moment in Paradise./The two lovers watch Charlie Chaplin eat his shoe./And a moment later find themselves..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The Sound and the Fury

Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.

"...Peter Pan for the younger set of music fans, Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush, Harold Lloyd's Safety Last, and..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Polytheism in the Raw

"...and Gloria Swanson were first called "goddesses." Except for Charlie Chaplin -- whom writers instantly identified with the Great..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Importing a 'Low Winter Sun'

Lennie James and Mark Strong on being British actors in a US show

"...best as the duplicituous Robert Hawkins from Jericho or Charlie the pimp from HBO's Hung. But scrape away the..."

Aug. 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...Buster and CharlieBlack: A few minutes had passed and Margaret comes and..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone is dead

"...their signing with Sony's Lucky Dog label (home to Charlie Robison), which the manager calls "the strongest label in..."

April 20, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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