Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Faces of Love, the movie's demure title, is the brainchild of bored Boris Adrian, a film maker in the tradition of Chaplin and Fellini whose previous efforts have exhausted the topics of Death, Infinity and the origin of Time. "What I want to know," asks Boris, "is why are stag films always so ridiculous? Suppose the film were made under studio conditions - feature-length, color, beautiful actors, great lighting. How would it look then...
...possible. For more than two centuries, from that subversive puritan Ben Franklin to the wryly theological Charles Schulz, the nation's humorists have operated as a tolerated underground culture. They have conspired to create a fantasy world where good Americans could be as shiftless as Charlie Chaplin's tramp, as cynical as W.C. Fields never-giving-a-sucker-an-even-break, as lecherous as Groucho Marx prowling a bedroom. American humorists, in other words, have kept American puritans sane and alive...
...Quackser was the idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where I'm at now-humorous, sexual, innocent and striving for simplicity." Wilder's delicate blend of humor and pathos makes the viewer think he is seeing young Charlie Chaplin with reddish hair and an Irish brogue. It also makes Quackser Fortune one of the most delightful comic dramas in recent years...
There are also some film programs sponsored by Harvard. Ivy Films, at Carpenter Center, will show movies by directors like Chaplin, yon Stroheim, and Rossellini at 7 and 9 p. m. on Thursdays during the Summer term. Film Studies is doing a series on great American directors, also at Carpenter Center, at 7 p. m. on Sundays. And there will be a series of classic films shown at Emerson 105 at 7 p. m. on Fridays...