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Charles Chaplin’s endlessly clever, inventive and witty 1936 satire on modern factory methods, inspired by René Clair’s famous 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté, is a silent comedy made nearly a decade after […]
Marlon Brando stars in A Countess from Hong Kong as the rich American diplomat Ogden Mears who spends his last night in Hong Kong with Russian Countess Natascha (Sophia Loren), who follows him on board his […]
Troubled writer-director-star Charles Chaplin satirises America in the witch-hunt era of the Fifties and his personal history in a story seen through the eyes of a disillusioned foreign ruler in New York. Chaplin plays the […]
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1952 drama with music Limelight is a beautiful film, incredibly poignant, extremely sentimental and nostalgic, but almost unbearably moving both for itself and as an encapsulation of the star’s life. The pairing […]
One of Charles Chaplin’s cleverest, most amusing shorts, with the star showing the most amazing balletic skill on the roller-skating rink. Chaplin plays a bumbling waiter who causing causes chaos at work in his v and […]
This now restored 25-minute classic silent comedy short from 1917 is one of writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best in serious satirical vein. Chaplin starts as The Derelict, a tramp tempted to steal at a mission, but […]
This now restored 25-minute classic silent comedy short from 1917 is one writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best. Unusually not in his famous Tramp costume and guise, Chaplin plays a drunk (The Inebriate) who goes to dry […]