Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are promising enough settings for comedy, but Tati never develops any dramatic tension within them, partly because he seems to have no firm attitude toward them. Modernism was an actively malevolent force in Chaplin's Modern Times; Tati sees it as nothing more than a minor nuisance. His greatest problem, however, is that unlike Chaplin-or Buster Keaton-he hasn't the faintest idea of how to link one gag to another, building the kind of comic line that tightens, tightens, tightens around them and ensnares the audience in analogous helplessness, the kind that results from masterfully...
...aimlessness that hangs so heavily around Playtime is thickened by the fact that Hulot cannot be said to be a character in the sense that Chaplin's Tramp or Keaton's Great Stone Face was. He is passive where they were active-even revolutionary-in their relationship to the things and the people who tormented them. Chaplin was insouciantly defiant when pressed, Keaton manically inventive. Both were also incurable romantics. They were people of dimension, people with plans and aspirations and a wide range of feeling. One could identify with them, suffer and exult with them...
Geraldine Chaplin was sitting on top of the world. Charlie's oldest daughter, 28, was in Madrid with her lover, Director Carlos Saura. She was also playing Anne of Austria in a zany new version of The Three Musketeers directed by Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night). Meanwhile four other versions of the Dumas novel were being filmed, two in Italy and two in France, making this the summer of the 15 Musketeers...
LEHMAN HALL, An Evening of Classic Mickey Mouse Cartoons, May 17, 9, 75c An Evening of Classic Warner Brothers Cartoons, May 18, 9, 75c. An Evening of Classic Chaplin Short Films...
Almost from the beginning, novelists have gone to bat for the game. Ring Lardner saw baseball as the great American comedy-look through the knothole and you found uniformed counterparts of Huck Finn and Charlie Chaplin...