The Kid d. Charles Chaplin (1921) The Criterion Collection Spine: #799 Blu-ray Release Date: February 16, 2016 Screen captures below are taken from The Criterion Collection Blu-ray disc. In the first five years of Chaplin’s career he worked for four studios, moving from one lucrative contract to another more lucrative contract almost yearly. We covered Flicker Alley’s excellent … Read more
Once his first movie contract, with Keystone, terminated, Charlie Chaplin moved on quickly to a new one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. There he made fourteen films, all included in Flicker Alley’s exceptional Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Flicker Alley’s third (and final) comprehensive Chaplin release. Read the full post.
Trevor continues to look at the films of Charlie Chaplin with a look at his 1936 film, Modern Times, the last film featuring The Tramp. Read the full post.
This month Taschen has released one of the most magnificent books of the year, The Charlie Chaplin Archives. Read the full post.
In 1931, in some of the worst days of the Great Depression, Charlie Chaplin released his compassionate, yet dark, film City Lights. In his ongoing look at Chaplin’s work, Trevor looks at the film. Read the full post.
In 1925 Charlie Chaplin released one of his major masterpieces, The Gold Rush, a delightful, touching film starring The Tramp. Trevor reviews the film and discusses the Criterion Blu-ray as part of his Chaplin series. Read the full post.
In 1916, Chaplin signed on with a new studio, the Mutual Film Corporation, and became the highest paid entertainer in the world. In a lovingly compiled dual-format home video release, Flicker Alley presents beautiful restorations of all twelve of the films Chaplin made at Mutual. Trevor looks at Flicker Alley’s Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies. Read the full post.
I’m planning on making the next few months Chaplin months because there’s a special book coming out a bit later this year: The Charlie Chaplin Archives from Taschen. For those of you who do not know Taschen, it is an “art book” publisher that specializes in large, detailed, photo-heavy tomes on a variety of subjects. My wife … Read more