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Today Hollywood so dominates the film landscape that Americans may think they can ignore work from abroad, whether of the 1990s or the 1890s. Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a six-hour TV history of European silent film by the nonpareil team of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, could upend that notion. Faster than a speeding Twister, more sweeping than Braveheart and, in its insistence on Europe's artistic superiority, as contentious as an Oliver Stone screed, Cinema Europe will pry open the viewer's eyes and mind. It is airing five nights this week on cable's Turner Classic...
Most of these facts are in books, but it's a joy to see the evidence come to life, both in the rare, thrilling clips and in interviews with film veterans, still vital, still proud. Simon Feldman, the Russian techno-wizard who worked on Napoleon, was 103 when Brownlow found him. Feldman caresses photos from the film as if they held the secret of eternal youth...
...high point of the series, however, began last week, with a three-part documentary titled Unknown Chaplin. Film Historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (who produced the program in 1983 for Britain's Thames TV) scoured the great comedian's archives and other sources for outtakes, home movies and other never before seen footage. In most of his productions, Chaplin worked without a script -- improvising, experimenting and refining on film until he was satisfied, throwing out whole sequences or starting over when he wasn't. There are tantalizing scenes of the director at work (Chaplin getting exasperated with...
...Nothing seems to work. The scene is finally completed, but Chaplin returns to it months later with one more idea: a limousine door slams shut, and the girl assumes the tramp is its owner. At last, the sequence works; perfectionism is repaid. So is the scholarship and dedication of Brownlow and Gill. Unknown Chaplin is that rarity, a masterpiece about a master...
Shoppers seem to feel a sense of urgency this year, inspired partly by spot shortages of such popular gifts as exercise wear and stuffed toys. Said Michael Brownlow, a railroad conductor from Doraville, Ga., who took a day off last week to shop in a suburban Atlanta mall: "If you wait until the last minute, things will be gone. I had to get up Sunday morning and stand in line for half an hour just to get one of the toys my son wanted." Parents often have to act like detectives to find such other scarce playthings as Return...