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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 Scotland's 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 of the overlooked Scot, described in newspaper reports of the day as the ‘tutor and teacher’ ...
'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 transphobia, yet produced some of cinema’s most defining pictures HelenO'Hara Tue 2 Mar 2021 05.53...
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 released. Premiering on January 21, 1921, the movie marked Chaplin’s full-length directorial debut. A...