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...Tragic Chaplin. Despite the extremity of the situation, much that happens is very everydayish, which actually enhances the play's humanity. The camp's commandant worries about the production quota: if it goes up, he gets a promotion; if it goes down, he faces ignominy or worse. The camp's doctor is busy assembling a harem of pseudo nurses. The camp's foundrymen are lured on to melt bronze by the promise of a bonus. They are cheated out of it. A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic...
...specific elements of film and the ways in which they convey meaning to the audience. Sequence-by-sequence, shot-by-shot analysis will be applied to a wide variety of film classics. Among the films to be shown are early Dziga Vertov films, Griffiths' "Birth of a Nation," Chaplin's "Modern Times," the Odessa steps sequence from "Potemkin," Ford's "Stagecoach," Welles' "Citizen Kane," Kubrick's. "Dr. Strangelove," and Fellini's "81/2...
Died. Gilbert Seldes, 77. author, critic and longtime booster of the popular arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1924 Seldes stirred a sensation with his The Seven Lively Arts, in which he argued that Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, jazz, the circus and burlesque had it all over the Barrymores, the Metropolitan Opera or the works of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed, he made a case that Krazy Kat, the comic strip, was the most satisfactory work of art then produced in America-all of which enraged serious critics of the day and titillated Seldes' many fans...
...bigger hit." Manhattan's Paul McGregor, longtime advocate of the cut, gave it its first public exposure a year and a half ago atop the head of Actress Jane Fonda. McGregor, who sees the style as not only ageless but sexless, has monkeyed with Warren Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Sutherland and all of his own family of six. "It is a true hairstyle," he says, "unlike the faking and teasing that makes so many women over 21 look like hookers. Now an older woman can wear long hair in the back without looking silly; the short hair...
...often lasted until after 4 p.m. Everyone then trooped off to a teahouse for more food and drink. In the prewar years, only a few hours later came supper and films. Hitler's taste in movies ran to romantic schmalz and leggy revues; he could not abide Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, Speer notes dryly. When the films were over, everyone else was glassy-eyed with fatigue, but Hitler prattled on as beer, wine and sandwiches were handed around until 2 a.m. Speer writes: "When, I would ask myself, did he really work...