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Charlie Chaplin Festival 2014, Le Silo


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The second annual Charlie Chaplin Festival will take place from February 13th - February 16th, 2014 at the Théâtre Le Silo in Montoire sur le Loir, France.

Annie Chaplin hosts the festival in homage to her father in her theatre Le Silo. There will be an exhibition and screenings of three of Chaplin’s masterpieces.

PROGRAM :

Thursday, 13th Feb at 7 pm: Festival Opening with a Free screening of the documentary La naissance de Charlot

Thursday, 13th Feb at 8:30 pm: Screening of Monsieur Verdoux

Friday, 14th Feb at 7 pm: Screening of The Kid

Saturday, 15th Feb at 6 pm: Screening of Monsieur Verdoux

Saturday, 15th Feb at 9:30 pm: Screening of *Modern Times”

Sunday, 16th Feb at 3:30 pm: Screening of The Kid

Sunday, 16th Feb at 5pm: Screening of Modern Times

Visit the website of Le Silo for further details.


100 Years Ago Today


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February 7th, 1914 - 100 years ago TODAY - Cinema audiences saw Charlie Chaplin dressed as the iconic Tramp for the FIRST TIME in Kid Auto Races at Venice!!!

Watch Kid Auto Races at Venice below with Timothy Brock’s brilliant newly composed score for the Tramp’s 100th anniversary, commissioned by the Cineteca di Bologna!



Our logo in the graphic above was specially designed for the Tramp’s 100th anniversary by renowned poster designer, Léo Kouper, who painted his first Chaplin poster in the 1950s for the re-release of the Gold Rush.


Keystone Album, Musée de l'Elysée


2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of The Tramp. To celebrate this milestone, the Musée de l’Elysée is publishing a facsimile of the Keystone Album preserved in the Chaplin Photographic Archive. This album assembles 29 of the 36 short films Chaplin made with the Keystone Film Company in 1914.

All year long, the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne publishes insights on Charlie Chaplin’s first movies on their website.

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Chaplin Museum


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THE CHAPLIN MUSEUM WILL OPEN FOR SURE IN SPRING 2016! After years of uncertainty, the contracts have at last been signed for the development of a museum in the Chaplins’ family home, Manoir de Ban, Corsier sur Vevey.


Australia's Silent Film Festival Salutes Charlie Chaplin


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A CELEBRATION: CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S 100 YEARS IN THE MOVIES 1914-2014

Australia’s Silent Film Festival salutes Charlie Chaplin’s start in film 100 years ago in 1914.

Charlie’s genius captivated and enchanted audiences around the world within a very short period of time. That relationship has never ended. The whole world claims Charlie as its own: the qualities in his roles as director, actor and composer are timeless and universal.

There are a number of exciting shows planned. The Festival invites you to join in the celebration. See the Australia’s Silent Film Festival website for details.


Chaplin Festival in Lambersart, France


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From February 7th - 9th, 2014, the Films en concert festival in Lambersart, France will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Little Tramp with a screening of The Kid, screenings of other Chaplin comedies with live musical accompaniment, a panel with guest speakers and other events!

Visit the Lambersart festival’s website for more information.


FOOTLIGHTS with THE WORLD OF LIMELIGHT by David Robinson


Today at the BFI Southbank in London is the launch of the new book THE WORLD OF LIMELIGHT by Chaplin biographer David Robinson, which includes Charlie Chaplin’s novella FOOTLIGHTS. David Robinson, will be there, as well as British actress Claire Bloom, who co-starred in Limelight as the dancer, Thereza. The book, which is in English, is available on Amazon and through the Cineteca di Bologna’s website.

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Well before becoming one of the masterpieces of Chaplin’s artistic maturity, and even before existing as a screenplay, Limelight was conceived by his author as a 34,000-word novella: after remaining virtually unknown for more than sixty years after its completion Footlights is now published by Cineteca di Bologna in this volume for the very first time. Chaplin’s vivid, idiosyncratic style, unadulterated by editors, moves freely from the baldly colloquial to moments of rich imagery and Dickensian description. For a setting, he looked back to London and the music halls of his first professional years, an enchanted period in which he had broken out of the deprivations of his childhood to discover, progressively, his unique gifts as entertainer and communicator. But this retrospect also recalled the painful insecurity of an uneducated, uncultured boy launched into the world of success.

David Robinson, Chaplin’s most eminent biographer, traces the long yet logical evolution of the story, from its unlikely origin in Chaplin’s 1916 meeting with Nijinsky. The succeeding commentary recounts the making of the film, and traces the real-life sources of Chaplin’s memories: the people and theatres of London’s Soho, and the unique ballet tradition of the two great theatres of Leicester Square, the Empire and the Alhambra, commemorated in Limelight for the first and only time on film.

The book is illustrated with a great wealth of previously unpublished documents and photographs from the Chaplin archives, historic pictures of the theatrical world of Chaplin’s youth and images from the author’s private collection.