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There is no reason to disagree with the assessment made by critic Andrew Sarris some 40 years ago that “Charles Chaplin is arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema.”

“The Real Charlie Chaplin” is an alluring title for a documentary about the...

The forgotten Scottish comedian with a remarkably similar look He was a box-office hit hailed as one of ‘the greatest comedians of the day’ – but history has largely forgotten silent movie star Billie Richie. The Glaswegian was Scotlands first international film star, but he became overshadowed by Charlie Chaplin, who used several of the same comic techniques - including the tramp persona and drunk act. Now one silent film historian is making an attempt to tip the balance back in favour ...

Sexism stands at the door: 11 female film-makers written out of mainstream Hollywood history The woman stays in the picture … Alice Guy-Blaché, top left, on the France set of The Life of Christ in 1906. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy The woman stays in the picture … Alice Guy-Blaché, top left, on the France set of The Life of Christ in 1906. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy Maya Angelou and Jean Seberg were just some of the women who faced everything from racism and sexism to tr...

Join How do you define a breakthrough film when nearly everything that the talent behind it did was a breakthrough? This much is certain; by 1920, there was no bigger star in the world than Charlie Chaplin. The “Little Tramp” persona that he’d perfected in short films made him an internationally beloved figure. Already the highest paid person in movies with an unusual (for the time) amount of control over his pictures, Chaplin had 68 films under his belt by the time that The Kid was rel...

Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and i...

On This Day: Battle of the Bulge begins On Dec. 16, 1944, Germany launched a counteroffensive in World War II that became known as the Battle of the Bulge. By (0) Panzergrenadier-SS Kampfgruppe Hansen in action during clashes in Poteau, Belgium, against Task Force Myers, on December 18, 1944, as part of the Battle of the Bulge. File Photo courtesy the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Re-enactors pour chests of tea into Boston Harbor from a ship at the Boston Tea Party Ship an...

The Dark Knight and The Blues Brothers join National Film Registry “The Blues Brothers” (1980). (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- As the oft-quoted line from “The Dark Knight” goes, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Now a more respectable immortality awaits this 2008 Christopher Nolan superhero blockbuster, which earned Heath Ledger a posthumous Academy Award for his performance as the Joker: It is among the memorable motion pictures, along with “Shr...