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City Lights, another Chaplin classic (the one with the fight scene). Also, The Go-Between, Losey-Printer decadence again but this time there's a story and some good acting. HARVARD SQUARE THEATER. City: 3, 6:25, 9:55, Go-Between...
City Lights, another Chaplin classic (the one with the fight scene). Also, The Go-Between, Losey-Pinter decadence again but this time there's a story and some good acting. HARVARD SQUARE THEATER. City: 3, 6:25, 9:55. Go-Between...
...Great Dictator. Chaplin made this satire on Fascism in 1939, and the polities are painful in their relative gentleness. But forget the occasional awkwardness: the man's heart was in the right place, and so were his incredible talents--particularly in a ballet of world conquest that the Fooey dances with a bouncing globe. With Jack Oakie. THE PLAZA...
...Woody, who? Nobody, really. The Allen persona - the urban boy-chik as social misfit - is, of course, an act, a put-on, no more the real performer than Chaplin's tramp or Jack Benny's miser. Still it does contain grains of truth, along with lecithin, gum arabic and .2% sodium benzoate to retard spoilage. Like all great comedians, Allen consumes his roots, and very often the public schleprechaun blurs into the private comic who would rather talk about anything but himself. As he admits, even his most outrageous gags are a form of autobiography, a reflection...
...Great Dictator. Chaplin made this satire on Fascism in 1939, and the politics are painful in their relative gentleness. But forget the occasional awkwardness: the man's heart was in the right place, and so were his incredible talents--particularly in a ballet of world conquest that the Fooey dances with a bouncing globe. With Jack Oakie. THE PLAZA...