Charles Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris
Charles Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris was one of the most influential films of the silent era, occupying a place somewhat equivalent to Citizen Kane in the period of talking films.
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Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Circus’: A Masterpiece of Melancholy and Mirth
Chaplin's The Circus was released in 1928 when cinema was rocked by the sound revolution. It follows the stratospheric success of The Gold Rush (1925) but arrived during one of the artist's…
Ennio Flaiano: Omaggio a Chaplin
Ho avuto stamane una lettera senza firma. L’anonimo si duole che all’omaggio a Charlie Chaplin, alla Fenice di Venezia, la sera del 3 settembre scorso, non fossero presenti molti registi e autori…
Monsieur Verdoux | Review by James Agee
I think Monsieur Verdoux is one of the best movies ever made, easily the most exciting and most beautiful since Modern Times. I will add that I think most of the press…
A Chaplin Overwiew – by Richard Schickel
It is, I think, a measure not merely of Chaplin’s art, but of his really incredible ego, that one simply cannot find an article that presumes to criticize him—or even to view…
Chaplin Interviewed by Richard Meryman (1966)
In 1966, Chaplin granted several extensive interviews to journalist Richard Meryman for a Life magazine article to promote 'A Countess from Hong Kong.' Only a small portion of Meryman's taped interviews was…
Comedy’s Greatest Era | by James Agee
In 1949, the film critic James Agee published his influential essay “Comedy's Greatest Era,” in which he recounts the golden years of silent comedy and proclaims that the genre’s “four most eminent…
Chaplin: History And Mystery
The Tramp. The Little Fellow. Naturally the obituaries were full of those terms, full of references to the bowler-hatted, cane-swinging, corner-skidding outsider who had become one of the perdurable icons in the…
Chaplin: The Antagonism of the Comic Hero
The following article was published at the time of Chaplin’s death in the periodical La Città Futura by Pietro Ingrao, then the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Although one of…
Charlie Abroad – by Charles Chaplin
The adventures of the great comedian Charlie Chaplin, told by himself. Published on Photoplay Magazine, January 1922 issue
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: PORTRAIT OF THE MORALIST – Essay by Robert Payne
Charlie, who represents to such an extraordinary degree the whole human race caught in its habitual rattrap, does kick off his shoes, and we are abundantly convinced of the validity of his…
The Great Dictator (1940) | Review by Dilys Powell
After nearly thirty years, then, of playing one character in one set of clothes, Chaplin takes on a double role. The subject of the film is thus new to him, or shall…