Tag: Charlie Chaplin
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The lost worlds of silent cinema.
A real pleasure this weekend to attend the ‘Silents by the Sea’ film festival put on by the Northern Silents organisation at the Winter Gardens Pavilion in Morecambe, a grand variety theatre built in the 1890s, and currently undergoing restoration. It’s a particularly apt setting since some of the films screened over the weekend may…
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Repetition and difference: Three faces of Chaplin
Earlier this year I was asked to suggest three feature films by Charlie Chaplin for screening at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster to accompany the release of a new documentary about the film-maker, The Real Charlie Chaplin (Middleton, Spinney, 2021), and to write a blog post for their website. This is a slightly expanded version of that…
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Perfect and ephemeral: Chaplin as cinematic sign
Driving back and forth past this outhouse on the small island of Waiheke in New Zealand/Aotearoa over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been struck by the incongruity of finding this image of Charlie Chaplin at what feels like, from a Eurocentric perspective, the edge of the world. The figure of Chaplin dressed in the…
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