In the context of a “Comedy shorts night” with The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum come and see a Screening of Behind The Screen (1916) in Fremont USA, Saturday October 18 at 7:30 PM.
37417 Niles Blvd,
Fremont, CA 94536 USA
(510)494-14-11
The company Cult Prints has again teamed up with the Chaplin Archives to bring you a brand new series of prints that celebrate Charlie Chaplin’s most popular silent comedies.
The new SILENT MASTERPIECES COLLECTION includes prints from the following
seminal films:
The Kid (1921)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
The prints can purchased separately or as a collection – but all images are
strictly limited to an edition size of just 295.
Read more about these
remarkable images and reserve your prints today.
OLTRE 2008 Chaplin Collection now available through their stores in ITALY
Trendy womens tops bearing the Little Tramp image.
Unfortunately, OLTRE does not have an online shop.
For viewers in the US, don’t miss TCM’s Chaplin day , August 2nd.
Non stop viewing of Chaplin films, from Keystones to A King in New York
New documentary in search of festival screenings and tv deals :
A small desert town on the edge of western India’s famous salt plains is the unlikely home of the world’s largest population of Charlie Chaplin impersonators. The Charlie Circle of Adipur embraces businessmen, shopkeepers, a doctor who prescribes Chaplin movies for medicinal purposes, teachers, engineers, students and a three-year-old pre-schooler. They all share a passion for the silent film star of the early 1900s, with his twirling cane, wobbly walk and agitated eyebrows.
Check out the bootcake for the trailer of the film, to see how members of the Charlie Circle celebrate Chaplin’s birthday every year, and feel Charlie’s positive influence on their lives.
Charles Chaplin directs and appears in four films that demonstrate how his comic persona evolved during the sound era. All shown in new or archival 35mm film prints! Each film $8, CMA members $6, seniors 65 & over $5, students $4, or one Panorama voucher.
The “Little Tramp” falls in love with a blind flower seller in this peerless silent comedy (made during the sound era) that skillfully combines slapstick and pathos. Always on lists of the best movies ever made. New 35mm print! (USA, 1931, b&w, silent with musictrack, 87 min.)
With Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie. Chaplin plays both a Jewish ghetto barber and the mustachioed, megalomaniacal dictator Adenoid Hynkel in this prescient, passionate satire that was released a year
before the U.S. entered WWII. New 35mm print! (USA, 1940, b&w, 128 min.)
With Martha Raye.Chaplin plays a dapper Parisian bank clerk who murders rich widows for their money in this celebrated but controversial black comedy that marked a startling change of pace for the great clown. New 35mm print! (USA, 1947, b&w, 123 min.)
Loren, Sydney Chaplin, and Tippi Hedren. Chaplin’s rarely revived final film is a romantic comedy about an émigré Russian countess who escapes to America on a luxury liner, stowing away in the cabin of a wealthy diplomat. Chaplin has a small role. Studio print!
(Britain, 1967, color, 35mm, 108 min.)
Characters of the new Pixar animated film “Wall-E” are inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s humour and the character of Buster Keaton….
Cami Exhibition
Cami, The man who made Charlie Chaplin laugh…
From early June till late September the Museum De La Charité sur Loire is commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Cami, for half a century France’s most popular and prolific comic author, hailed by Chaplin as “the greatest humorist in the world” madcap novelist, serial-and-sketch-writer (for the press, stage and radio), cartoonist, illustrator, songwriter, librettist, punster and all-round funny man…
Musée De La Charité sur Loire
33, rue des Chapelains
58400 La Charité-sur-Loire
France
Comedy shorts night with The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
37417 Niles Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536
USA
(510)494-14-11
Saturday July 26
7:30PM $5 suggested donation
Judy Rosenberg (piano)
One AM (1916)
Saturday August 30 7:30PM
$5 suggested donation
Bruce Loeb (piano)
The Fireman (1916)
Children from several schools in Walworth, where Chaplin grew up, put on a fabulous presentation of Charlie Chaplin’s South London at the Unicorn Theatre on June 27th 2008.
They showed us how children in Victorian times played and worked. Particularly impressive were the Surrey Square infants school presentations of clog dancing, as Charlie would have danced with the Eight Lancashire Lads, and playing the spoons to a selection of popular music hall songs of the time.
Children from St Peter’s School Walworth enacted Charlie and Sydney’s childhood, including time at the workhouse, with panache. One child quoted from My Autobiography beautifully and brought tears to the eyes. Crampton School played out scenes from a Victorian childhood, reminding us that even in the direst poverty, white starched clothes were the norm. Their enactment of the workhouse showed how frightening it must have been for Charlie and Sydney.
Kids from Surrey School Junior School worked with Tom Cross on a wonderful animated film, Charlie Chaplin meets the Kung Fu Cat.
We hope this will soon be available for you to see on Tom’s website
St John’s Primary ended their great silent film on stage show with a rendition of Smile that had the whole theatre, local mayors, MP and parents alike, singing with them.
Sadly the theatre was not big enough for all the children to see each others acts and they had to wait patiently outside.
Hopefully, if this project is renewed, a larger venue could be found.
Jack McInroy, from the staff of St Peter’s School and huge Chaplin fan, dressed up as Charlie and amused the audience during the stage changes.
Thanks to everyone who worked on this project. May there be many more!
Chaplin laughter helps to heal !
Research at the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center for children found that when children watched classic humorous films and tv shows – the works of Mr. Chaplin included among them – they were able to withstand a painful medical procedure longer and with less stress and trauma.
This has huge implications for children and adults who cope with chronic painful illnesses.
Here are the published findings
You can also purchase from Rx Laughter’s website Chaplin postcards
“Thinking of you” and learn more about the foundation its role and how to support it.
Screening, Los Angeles, CA Academy to Visit “Modern Times” with “Techno Chaplin”
Beverly Hills, CA – A screening of a digitally restored 35mm print of Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” (1936) and an examination of rare behind-the-scenes photographs that reveal the techniques used in creating the film’s special effects will be featured in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Techno Chaplin” program hosted by visual effects supervisor Craig Barron and silent film author John Bengtson:
On Thursday, July 24, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
Screening in New York at The Museum of Modern Art
(212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street,
Between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497
Monday, July 14, 2008 – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 – 6:00 p.m.
Film Screenings & Events
Shanghaied Lovers. 1924. USA. Roy Del Ruth. Approx. 16 min. The Floorwalker. 1916. USA. Charles Chaplin. Approx. 24 min.
With piano accompaniment by Ben Model
In the Film exhibition Dalí Laughs
In conjunction with the exhibition Dalí: Painting and Film
Charles Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux at Film Forum in New York City
From June 13 to 19
Film Forum is located at 209 West Houston Street, between 6th Ave and Varick (7th Ave).
Create your own blind with images from Chaplin films !
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Auction on June 14 2008 in Paris – Drouot – Salle 9
400 old movie posters including many Chaplin ones.
Amazing collection of Chaplin toys, figurines and other old merchandising
Contact:
Jean-Louis Capitaine & Alexandre Boyer
Ciné Images
68, rue de Babylone
75007 Paris
Tel: 01 47 05 60 25
Fax: 01 45 51 27 50
Utilising the iconic figure of south London’s own Charlie Chaplin, over 100 London South Bank University trainee teachers and an estimated 300 children and teachers at 5 local primary schools are working on a local history project this term which looks at “Charlie Chaplin’s South London”.
Apart from the input of students and teachers, theatre educators, artists, local historians and film-makers will be working alongside children at St John’s, St Peter’s, Crampton, Surrey Square Infants and Surrey Square Junior school (All in Chaplin’s birthplace of Walworth).
The culmination of this cross-curricular project will be a dramatic performance of children’s work on the late Victorian London of Chaplin’s childhood at the Unicorn Theatre on Friday 27th June (1.30 pm)
Invited guests include :In addition to these schools, over 20 more Lambeth and Southwark schools have been invited to participate in the project and the best contributions from children in all these schools will be considered for inclusion in an accompanying book on the subject, written by LSBU historian Dr Alan Parkinson. This book is likely to be “launched” early in December, at the same time as the initial screening of Peter Wyeth’s documentary film on Chaplin’s London.
A Guitar/Bass duo play music composed by Chaplin:
“Now that it’s ended, Mandolin serenade, Sing a song, Falling star, Without you, Beautiful, wonderful eyes, Eternally, The spring song, You are the song, Weeping willows, Smile”
The music played by Manfred Junker (guitars) and German Klaiber (bass) is sweet, relaxing and jazzy.
Lisa Stein, Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University-Zaneville and author of the re-issue of Charlie Chaplin’s “_A Comedian Sees the World_” with her annotations and hyper-textual enhancements, dedicates an entire site to Charlie’s half brother: Sydney Chaplin, awaiting her book about his life-and-art. This first study should be finished in 2009.
After several years as a vaudeville comedian for the Karno Company and then Keystone’s actor in the USA – Sydney considerably helped his brother with his career and its financial aspects.
He was a real business manager for him and negociated Charlie’s biggest contracts. He was a real bon vivant.
We are waiting for Lisa’s new book with impatience
Saturday, June & Sunday, June 8
At the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
37417 Niles Boulevard
Fremont, California
USA
Charlie Chaplin Days with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Evening Screening of The Kid *
(click on image to see
Picture Gallery)