February 22, 2013 - 11:30am
See Charlie Chaplin's "romance in pantomime" on the big screen.
My intense love of Charlie Chaplin is no secret to anyone. In the silent era of film, the Germans were the best – except for Chaplin. It is my honest belief that the world would be a better place if everybody watched his films. There is something special about them, something pure and...
January 10, 2013 - 12:35pm
With live musical accompaniment!
Silent film is wonderful. It's a view of the movies from a whole other world. With the absence of the availability of wordiness, ideas needed to be expressed almost exclusively through movement and pantomime, with maybe a few title cards thrown in. It is this writer's personal opinion that...
July 29, 2012 - 8:08pm
Two men, one woman, and the Great War.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love silent films? I'm not sure if I have stated it explicitly, although it has certainly been implied. It was the medium of the great Charlie Chaplin, who continued to make silent films long after the advent of synchronized sound, claiming that talking...
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