Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Countess from Hong Kong is probably the best movie ever made by a 77-year-old man. Unhappily, it is the worst ever made by Charlie Chaplin...
...pulling a little wagon that carries his Teddy bear. At night he goes back to the abandoned factory where a gang of derelicts chases him through the cellars with a terrible silent intensity. As interpreted with a marvelous simplicity by Taylor Mead, a Beat poet, the hero is part Chaplin and part Myshkin -a holy idiot, unaccommodated...
...first came into his viewfinder during the filming of A Lovely Summer Morning two years ago, and since then Spanish Cameraman Manuel Velasco, 23, has absolutely refused to let Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22, out of his sight. It got so that even though she was dating other fellows, the gossips were insisting that soon there would be a Velasco on either side of the camera. Not so, said Charlie's daughter. "I have no intention of marrying until I'm 30 at least." That does seem a bit of a wait, but Manuel looked reasonably patient when...
...been a star for almost four decades. So it seemed appropriate last week when Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art awarded her a "Tribute"-a film festival of her finest hour-and-a-halfs-even though such honors are usually reserved for the likes of Garbo, Chaplin or yesterday's avant-garde directors. Ginger Rogers was happy for the attention, but she was aware of the anachronism. After viewing the mélange, she sighed, "It ain't really me up there. Just images, lights and shadows. Me's here...
...Piano Concerto as a conflict between man and society: "The piano is born. Then the orchestra teaches it what to say. The piano learns. Then it learns the orchestra is wrong. They fight and the piano wins-not triumphantly, but with a few weak, sad notes-sort of Charlie Chaplin humorous." In the first movement, the piano lightheartedly followed the lead of the orchestra, then gradually swerved off on its own tangent, while the orchestra shouted its disapproval with great thunderclaps of dense, dissonant chords...