Keystone at Last Available !!!
The “Cineteca Cologna” - “BFI” - “Lobster” Keystone restorations at last available on dvd
Chaplin’s first films as you have never seen them before.
Get it on Amazon (U.S
Soon to be available in Europe…
The “Cineteca Cologna” - “BFI” - “Lobster” Keystone restorations at last available on dvd
Chaplin’s first films as you have never seen them before.
Get it on Amazon (U.S
Soon to be available in Europe…
Charlie Chaplin: A five-day, 12-film retrospective featuring all-new 35mm prints opens Saturday with perhaps the most underrated of the Little Tramp’s efforts, “The Circus” (1928), preceded by two shorts, “The Idle Class” (1921) and “A Day’s Pleasure” (1919).
Far from a minor effort, “The Circus” deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as other Chaplins being screened over the next week, including “City Lights” (Sunday), “Modern Times” (Monday), “The Great Dictator” (Tuesday) and “The Kid” (Tuesday).
Part of the reason is that it is packed with one visually inventive sequence after another, even more so than most Chaplin films - the funhouse and tightrope set pieces in particular. Also, the unrequited love story with a trick horse rider (Merna Kennedy) is especially affecting. Chaplin, who won a special Academy Award for the film, was an acute social and political critic.
If he had decided to write instead of make films, he would have been George Orwell.
Saturday through Wednesday at :
the Castro Theatre
429 Castro St. San Fransisco
(415) 621-6120
http://www.castrotheatre.com.
Janus Films who has the exclusive theatrical rights in the U.S for Charlie Chaplin Films, has recentely released a beautiful Chaplin website. Keep an eye on it since it has all the screening dates as they’re touring around the country’s theaters with the restored material of Chaplin’s most celebrated work.
Watch this amazing fashion show by “John Galliano”:http://www.johngalliano.com/, inspired by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
The 22nd of July Carl Davis is conducting the Brooklyn Philharmonic in “live performances”:http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/performing-arts/the-chaplin-mutuals-carl-davis of his original scores to “Easy Street”, “1:00 AM”, and “Behind the Screen”, three of Charlie Chaplin’s classics from the “Mutual Film Corporation”.
!http://www.charliechaplin.com/images/photos/0000/0828/PORTRAITS0002_square.jpg! Down the memory lane : in 1975, 2 years before his death, Charlie Chaplin goes to London to receive his knighthood from the Queen. “The Guardian’s moving article, Chaplin in Limelight”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jun/22/archive-charlie-chaplin-in-limelight, describes how this old and diminished man gathers up his energy to receive his ultimate honor with his beloved wife Oona, still thinking about his next film…