The Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival honours the pioneering spirit of a great filmmaker and advocate for social change.
The fourth annual CCCFF will take place from August 21st to 24th in the beautiful village of Waterville on the Ring of Kerry in the South West of Ireland. The festival includes a hugely entertaining range of events, screenings (including Chaplin films!), workshops and Chaplin-themed street entertainment and much, much more.
Don’t miss their attempt at a Guinness World Record for the most Charlie Chaplin look-alikes in one spot on Sunday, August 24th.
French cinema magazine “L’Avant-Scène Cinéma” has released a special City Lights summer edition. Get yours today!
Summary : Scene-by-scene breakdown of City Lights by René Marx. Articles and texts by Jean Mitry, Serge Bromberg, P.S. Gutman, Jacques Kermabon, J.M. Méjean… Interview with Pierre Etaix.
Yesterday evening, June 29th, 2014, the French TV channel “France 5” aired a special programme on Chaplin and his Swiss home, the Manoir de Ban, featuring Michael, one of Chaplin’s eight children, and Charly, one of his grandchildren.
As part of the Birth of the Tramp celebrations in Bologna, there will be a special Léo Kouper exhibition from June 25th to July 5th, 2014.
Léo Kouper, pictured above in his artist’s studio in Saint-Ouen, is a French artist, renowned for his movie poster illustrations, notably those of Chaplin films. He painted his first Chaplin poster in the 1950s.
Alongside some of his most famous Chaplin posters, the exhibition will feature many ideas that never made it to the United Artists advertising department. Mr Kouper will be in attendance for a guided tour on Saturday, June 28th at 4:00 pm.
Place:
DIPARTIMENTO DELLE ARTI / SPAZIO HALL
PIAZZETTA PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 5/B
FREE ADMISSION
June 25th to July 5th
Monday to Friday: 2:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 am to 9:00 pm
Starting next week: Mike Leigh, Claire Bloom, Michael Chaplin, Alexander Payne, Michel Hazanavicius and Bérénice Bejo will join other Chaplin fans and experts from round the world for the 3 day Chaplin event in Bologna Italy.
The Birth of the Tramp Celebration will begin on the evening of Wednesday, June 25th with an open-air live orchestral screening in Piazza Maggiore. For the programme and the online registration: www.cinetecadibologna.it/100charlot_eng
Film star Charlie Chaplin spent February 1931 through June 1932 touring Europe, during which time he wrote a travel memoir entitled “A Comedian Sees the World.” This memoir was published as a set of five articles in Women’s Home Companion from September 1933 to January 1934 but until now had never been published as a book in the U.S. In presenting the first edition of Chaplin’s full memoir, Lisa Stein Haven provides her own introduction and notes to supplement Chaplin’s writing and enhance the narrative.
Haven’s research revealed that “A Comedian Sees the World” may very well have been Chaplin’s first published composition, and that it was definitely the beginning of his writing career. It also marked a transition into becoming more vocally political for Chaplin, as his subsequent writings and films started to take on more noticeably political stances following his European tour.
During his tour, Chaplin spent time with numerous politicians, celebrities, and world leaders, ranging from Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi to Albert Einstein and many others, all of whom inspired his next feature films, Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and A King in New York (1957). His excellent depiction of his experiences, coupled with Haven’s added insights, makes for a brilliant account of Chaplin’s travels and shows another side to the man whom most know only from his roles on the silver screen. Historians, travelers, and those with any bit of curiosity about one of America’s most beloved celebrities will all want to have A Comedian Sees the World in their collections.
