Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE EXISTS a special group of film comedies that make us laugh so hard our faces hurt afterwards. As the re-release of City Lights joins that of Modern Times, Charles Chaplin is batting two for two--but then, we could hardly expect less from the man billed as the King of Comedy. That Chaplin is as wonderful as the initiated have always claimed comes as a bit of a relief, like discovering that ice cream really is that delicious. This funny, sometimes sad, love story of the Tramp and the blind flower girl may well be the chocolate...
...designer Peter Agoos and lighting crew David Chaplin and Marlene Nelson were vital collaborators in the general success. Agoos' three-tiered circular stage gave the performers both space and a versatile set for barrooms and statues. With a thrust stage and cabaret setting the lighting was crucial--and flawless...
Modern Times, with Chaplin. Harvard Square, 3:05, 6:30, 9:55. With Sundays and Cybele...
...year of the Tramp in the Academy Awards. With the little fellow's creator, Charlie Chaplin, on hand for his honorary Oscar, the rest of the usual inanity was almost bearable. In its professional judgments, the Academy showed an unforgivable lapse: neither John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday nor Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange collected a single Oscar. The acting awards, on the other hand, were highly plausible. Most striking was Jane Fonda's citation as Best Actress for her portrayal of a call girl in Klute, showing that Hollywood is no longer totally hysterical...
...week's end the Charlie Chaplin who arrived in Hollywood to receive his second special Oscar-for his "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of this century"-was still an old man who did not walk very fast or see very well. But he was not the same old man who had arrived in the U.S. a few days earlier. He knew that he was home and-as he said-that he had been reborn...