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Charlie Chaplin: Ranking His 8 Masterpieces
15 hours ago | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Charlie Chaplin might not have invented movies, but he had an almost unparalleled influence on their development and evolution. He practically invented the comedic film and he became a legend for his ability to blend melodrama and pathos into his comedies, resulting in some of the most enduring films of his era and, subsequently, film history in general. His life was almost as interesting as his movies as he experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows.
Seemingly destined for a career as an entertainer, Chaplin made his first appearance on stage at the age of 5 and throughout his early life he gained a variety of skills that would suit him in his future career. He made his debut in 1914, with his Tramp character being introduced later that year, and he quickly became a sensation for a number of short films. By age 26 he was one of the highest »
- Paul Sorrells
Global Showbiz Briefs: Sky Arts Talks With Music Legends; Idris Elba To Produce ‘One Square Mile’; More
13 June 2013 9:00 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
UK’s Sky Arts ‘Talks Music’ With The Stars Britain’s Sky Arts is launching a new music interview series, …Talks Music. The 10-part show will look at the careers of some of the world’s most iconic music legends. Confirmed guests so far include Nile Rodgers, Boy George, Jeff Beck and Blondie’s Deborah Harry and Chris Stein. Whizz Kid Entertainment is producing, with Malcolm Gerrie conducting the sit-downs in front of a live studio audience. Gerrie and guests will also take questions from the floor. Jeff Wurtz, of Inside The Actors Studio, is directing and Gerrie is exec producing. A fall debut is planned. Modern Times Group Buys Into UK Market For $23.6M Modern Times Group, an international broadcasting outfit that operates free and pay-tv in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia and Africa, has added a UK-based international distributor to its portfolio with the acquisition of 92.4% of Digital Rights Group »
- NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
Mtg completes Drg acquisition
13 June 2013 3:32 AM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Broadcaster Modern Times Group has acquired British distributor Drg for an undisclosed sum.
As part of the acquisition, Jeremy Fox [pictured] returns to the distributor as chief executive with immediate effect while Drg group managing director Jonathan Jackson will leave the business.
The rest of the management team, including senior vice president of sales Patrick Roberts, managing director of acquisitions and formats Andrea Jackson and Anke Stoll, head of scripted acquisitions and development, will remain at the business.
The deal for The Inbetweeners, Doc Martin and Catch Phrase distributor is believed to be worth around £18m, as first reported by Broadcast last month. Mtg, which operates the Viasat portfolio of channels, is thought to have beaten Sky to the acquisition, with the News Corp-backed company thought to have bid around £12m.
Mtg executive vice-president of content Patrick Svensk said last year that the firm planned to make acquisitions following its purchase of Central and Eastern European producer Paprika »
'Safety Last!' (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray Review
10 June 2013 3:20 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I first saw Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! back in 2009. I'd made a list of the current IMDb Top 250 Films and it was the only one I had not yet seen. Problem was, at the time, it wasn't on Netflix and was only available as part of an $80+ boxset of Lloyd films. Fast forward four years later and you can buy a pristine, restored, feature-filled Blu-ray edition of the 1923 silent classic from Criterion and it's worth every penny. For those that read the site on a regular basis, I wrote up some brief thoughts on the film after seeing it for the first time four years ago in what was then only the third installment in my Sunday morning "What I Watched" column, which has grown considerably since. I mention this because my first time viewing Safety Last! was not on DVD or Blu-ray, but by finding it on TCM's »
- Brad Brevet
Media Talk podcast: BBC2 welcomes back Modern Times
7 June 2013 1:24 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
John Plunkett is joined this week by Media Guardian acting editor Jason Deans and Broadcast editor Lisa Campbell. Together they dissect the week's media stories, checking their privileges as they go.
Single documentaries strand Modern Times is coming back, thanks to BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow – but will the budgets and quality match up to the original?
In other news. Channel 4 releases a new second-screen app, there's more fallout at the BBC from the Digital Media Initiative fiasco and Jemima Kiss has a reality check for culture secretary Maria Miller, over plans to curb the sharing of illicit content on the web.
Plus Rebecca Nicholson recovers from this week's Games of Thrones to review ITV1's Love and Marriage and new import The Americans.
John PlunkettMatt HillJason DeansJemima KissRebecca Nicholson »
- John Plunkett, Matt Hill, Jason Deans, Jemima Kiss, Rebecca Nicholson
Media Talk podcast: BBC2 welcomes back Modern Times
7 June 2013 1:24 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
John Plunkett is joined this week by Media Guardian acting editor Jason Deans and Broadcast editor Lisa Campbell. Together they dissect the week's media stories, checking their privileges as they go.
Single documentaries strand Modern Times is coming back, thanks to BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow – but will the budgets and quality match up to the original?
In other news. Channel 4 releases a new second-screen app, there's more fallout at the BBC from the Digital Media Initiative fiasco and Jemima Kiss has a reality check for culture secretary Maria Miller, over plans to curb the sharing of illicit content on the web.
Plus Rebecca Nicholson recovers from this week's Games of Thrones to review ITV1's Love and Marriage and new import The Americans.
John PlunkettMatt HillJason DeansJemima KissRebecca Nicholson »
- John Plunkett, Matt Hill, Jason Deans, Jemima Kiss, Rebecca Nicholson
Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
BBC2 revives Modern Times documentary strand
6 June 2013 2:24 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
New series of one-off observational documentaries will return next year, as channel also announces Stephen Fry shows
BBC2 is to revive Modern Times, the 90s documentary strand that "walked softly and carried a big gun", 12 years after it was axed.
The new series of one-off observational documentaries will return to BBC2 next year.
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow said it was a "fantastic part of our heritage and is still in my view the defining series for single documentaries".
The return of Modern Times was one of a number of new documentaries announced by BBC2 on Wednesday, including a two-part series by Stephen Fry on homosexuality and programmes about dieting, airports, the Iceland food chain and the Piper Alpha disaster.
Hadlow said Modern Times "walked softly and carried a big gun. It had quite big things to say that were smuggled into the film-making.
"They may have been about particular moments »
- John Plunkett
Love is pain. That's the message of the Richard Burton–Elizabeth Taylor story | Jonathan Jones
5 June 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Two actors not in love play two who were – and draw attention to the complex relation between acting and truth in the art of love
The modern world has a problem with love. How do we even imagine it, let alone live it? In Shakespeare's time people knew what love looked like. It meant a young man playing a lute or a lady listening to her lover's honeyed words from her balcony. Marriage was something else, a property arrangement. But in modern times, love and relationships, long-term partnerships versus short-term joy, are hopelessly confused as is witnessed by the tangled tale of those two famous 20th-century lovers, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
In this photograph just released by the BBC, Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter impersonate the great unhappy ones in a drama about the last time they ever worked together, in 1983, in a critically trashed stage tour of Noel Coward's Private Lives. »
- Jonathan Jones
Love is pain. That's the message of the Richard Burton–Elizabeth Taylor story | Jonathan Jones
5 June 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Two actors not in love play two who were – and draw attention to the complex relation between acting and truth in the art of love
The modern world has a problem with love. How do we even imagine it, let alone live it? In Shakespeare's time people knew what love looked like. It meant a young man playing a lute or a lady listening to her lover's honeyed words from her balcony. Marriage was something else, a property arrangement. But in modern times, love and relationships, long-term partnerships versus short-term joy, are hopelessly confused as is witnessed by the tangled tale of those two famous 20th-century lovers, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
In this photograph just released by the BBC, Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter impersonate the great unhappy ones in a drama about the last time they ever worked together, in 1983, in a critically trashed stage tour of Noel Coward's Private Lives. »
- Jonathan Jones
Goddard: Much More Than a Chaplin Leading Lady
3 June 2013 2:44 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Paulette Goddard: An Ideal Husband and Paris Model on TCM Paulette Goddard height: Supposedly 5’4″. Paulette Goddard age: Well… Goddard would have turned 108 today. Or 103. Or 102. Or 98. It all depends on the source, though Goddard herself apparently — and not at all surprisingly — preferred the 1915 birth date, which would have made her 98 years old in 2013. Whether a centenarian or a nonagenarian, Paulette Goddard is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Day. TCM has already shown several Goddard movies, among them Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times and the Luise Rainer star vehicle Dramatic School, and it’s currently showing An Ideal Husband. (Picture: Paulette Goddard publicity shot, ca. 1940.) Made in England for London Films, An Ideal Husband (1947) was quite a prestigious production so as to justify the presence of a top Hollywood star in a British film. No less a figure than London Films founder Alexander Korda directed this movie adaptation of »
- Andre Soares
All the road rage: Fast & Furious 6 taps a modern vein
20 May 2013 6:40 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Without superheroes or aliens, the F&F franchise has made speed, laced with rage, one of film's most beloved intoxicants
The reason for the burgeoning success of the Fast & Furious films eludes some people. This apparently humdrum franchise manages without superheroes, intergalactic conflict, aliens, zombies, vampires or 3D. What has it got? Perhaps the clue's in the title. Speed and rage have come to form an alluring combination.
Speed, said Aldous Huxley, "provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." Until the 1820s, no one had travelled faster than a galloping horse; by the 1840s, trains were zipping along at 70mph. Speed began to redefine human life, as the acceleration of output yielded previously unimaginable benefits. The Gpo documentary Night Mail, with its pulsing pistons, captured the exaltation this engendered. But if the hastening tempo of the railway age brought collective liberation, it imposed a new tyranny on the individual.
As Marxists put it, »
- David Cox
Sundance London Film Festival 2013: ‘Upstream Color’ is a phenomenal film concerned with phenomena
30 April 2013 10:28 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Written by Shane Carruth
Directed by Shane Carruth
2013, USA
In William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition a mysteriously binary filmmaker slowly and anonymously drip feeds footage of his homebrew masterpiece to an eagerly seduced audience of intellectually curious, avant-garde aligned internet film fanatics. Christened as a ‘garage Kubrick’ by the fictional on-line community this was prescience as normal from Gibson, as a year later filmmaker Shane Carruth released his paradoxical puzzler Primer, a film he had written, directed, edited, acted, produced and scored for an infinitesimally small sum, mostly capturing his doppelgänger debut on the off-cuts and donations from industrial and corporate sources. An instant cult classic the films time travel programming and unconventional disregard for plot progressions has fostered a deluge of debate on its contortions and purpose, with every year seeing the electronic publication of a new workflow to interrogate its syncretic structure, each of which »
- John
Rectify Ep 1.03 ‘Modern Times’ quietly observes the Holden siblings trying to adjust
29 April 2013 9:39 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Rectify Season 1, Episode 3 ‘Modern Times’
Directed by Nicole Kassel
Written by Evan Dunsky, Graham Gordy & Michael D. Fuller
Airs Monday nights at 9pm Et on Sundance
Daniel Holden’s exoneration from prison ripped a deep, tender scar off the town of Paulie – and unsurprisingly, many of the people living in it, from mothers, to politicians, and even those who weren’t born when the murder and subsequent trial of Daniel rocked the city. In an hour almost completely devoid of plot, ‘Modern Times’ takes a long, hard look at the Holden siblings (and those around them) trying to come to terms with this new reality, one where a confessed killer seemingly escapes the grips of justice.
For the first fifteen minutes of ‘Modern Times’, Daniel doesn’t even leave his bedroom. He’s spent his entire adult life in prison; having a choice of whether to open the door or »
- Randy
Blu-ray Review: Charles Chaplin’s Dark, Riveting ‘Monsieur Verdoux’
19 April 2013 11:30 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Charles Chaplin’s “Monsieur Verdoux,” recently released in a lavish Criterion Blu-ray set with new special features and a glorious 2K digital restoration, is such a unique film that it has kind of gone under the radar when the career of its beloved star/director is discussed. His first post-wwii film, “Verdoux” doesn’t feature his iconic Tramp character, contains a ridiculously dark anti-hero, and is more socially demented than most films of its era. While it can be easy to look at the satire of films like “The Great Dictator” and “Modern Times” and apply them not just to today but Chaplin’s era, “Verdoux” can be a more difficult film to dissect. Which is not to imply that you shouldn’t. You really, really should.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
First, a little history. Believe it or not, “Monsieur Verdoux” almost was a film directed by Orson Welles and starring Chaplin. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
16 April 2013 1:20 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
On Charlie Chaplin’s 124th birthday, Dalton writes on the legend’s immortal classic “Modern Times” (1936)
A clock with the seconds-needle soundlessly completes a circle and a half around it, setting the opening tone for Chaplin’s satirical “story of industry, of individual enterprise – humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness”: Modern Times, inhabited in the Depression years by the famished populace, jobless or underpaid as a consequence of industrialization.
Immediately following is the image of a black sheep in the midst of white ones, all hurrying to get ahead. This merges into that of people rushing for work. Oddly, the sheep have no bearing to the film, and further, having made their point, do not bother to make another appearance. We must, of course, accept this as one of the many unformed techniques of the pioneering days of cinema.
Incessantly racing to keep up with the production pace, »
- Dalton
Idology: Did the Judges Lie About Candice? Plus: The Lazaro Epidemic and Our Top 3 Picks!
9 April 2013 5:31 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Is Season 12 of American Idol being produced in a freakish alternate universe?
It would certainly be one explanation for last week’s baffling Top 7 results-show telecast, where America thrust He Who Cannot Remember His Lyrics into its Top 3, and everyone except Mariah Carey: Voice of Reason (Tm pending) left Candice Glover out of their personal leaderboards.
Related | American Idol‘s Ratings Woes: 8 Common-Sense Ways to Salvage Season 12
On this week’s Idology, my cohost Melinda Doolittle and I discuss/rant whether the judges were flat-out lying during the infamous “who’s on top?” segment, and then counter by offering our own Top 3 selections. »
- Michael Slezak
Ioncinephile of the Month: Eleanor Burke & Ron Eyal (Stranger Things)
8 April 2013 7:30 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This April, we’ve got a first: two for the price of one. Husband and wife filmmaking team of Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke premiered Stranger Things at such fests as Slamdance (Winner Grand Jury Prize Best Narrative Feature), Raindance (Winner Grand Jury Prize Best U.K. Feature), Woodstock, Karlovy Vary, and is now they’ve got a one week theatrical run (April 5 – 11) at the reRun Theater in Brooklyn. Here is our profile on the filmmaker team and worth checking out is our accompanying original/combined personal Top Ten films list.
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?
Eleanor Burke: I remember going to the cinema as a very young child. The ceremony of it all was impressive: the velvet curtains, the hush as the lights went down. »
- Eric Lavallee
Top 10: Actors that have never won an Oscar
21 February 2013 6:21 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Article by Dan Clark
The Academy Awards have a long tradition of awarding the best and the brightest in the world of movies. Hollywood’s biggest night is the ideal time for film legends to be recognized. Unfortunately the Oscars are also well known for dropping the ball on occasion. Some of the best actors to ever have graced the silver screen never hoisted that golden statue. Sure they attempt to remedy that at times by giving out Honorary Awards to make up for their biggest oversights, but to me that’s nothing more than a giant comp out. With that in mind I have compiled a list of the greatest actors to never have won an Oscar. Like the Oscars I’m sure there are many that deserve to be on this list that didn’t make the cut so feel free to honor them in the comment section »
- Guest
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