Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modern Times (Charles Chaplin...
...house supplied by a real estate woman (Sally Kellerman), who also sends along a young maid (Sissy Spacek) with a disposition for topless housecleaning. The maid has a thing going with a man named Hood (Harvey Keitel), who works for the elder Barber. Hood's wife Karen (Geraldine Chaplin), given to coughing fits in imitation of Camille, starts a thwarted affair with Carroll. All of these intimacies are recorded by a photographer named Nona (Lauren Hutton), who excels at taking pictures of corners. "Makes sense out of them too," boasts her lover, who is Carroll's father...
...work actors, of demeaning them and consciously turning them into furniture. The old fascist bastard Adolphe Menjou has an answer to that. He said that the only director who worked actors as sensitively as Kubrick was the director of his 1923 film. A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin. Kirk Douglas gives a good performance, and Ralph Meeker, waiting for the firing squad, squashes a cockroach with his thumb after his comrade sees it and begins to wait, "That cockroach is going to live longer than I am!" "Now," Meeker says, after performing his own little execution...
...details of what has happened and continues to happen in Uganda are emerging only gradually. But what is already known is more than enough. Chaplin succeeded with The Great Dictator because he made a mockery of Hitler based on exactly what Hitler was, at a time when National Socialism was a much admired idealogy, and the emergence of a New Germany a much admired phenomenon, by all too many in the western world. Schroeder barely scratches the surface of what Amin really is and what Amin's rule in Uganda is all about. Sacrificing serious analysis for attempts at farce...
...affairs profitably and to seeing that his egocentric whims do not cut too deeply into those profits. As usual in Altman's films, the minor characters are hilariously venal, conning themselves relentlessly, the better to con the public. The film's best running gag has Geraldine Chaplin as sharpshooting Annie Oakley, sniping closer, ever closer to Frank Butler, her husband, who must hold her targets steady while fighting against growing fear as she keeps testing the limits of her possibly lethal talent. Altman understates this joke, as he does literally hundreds of others, with his cinematic trademarks: overlapping...