Another Chaplin film I've seen recently in 1916's The Count. It shares much in common with The Adventurer, which we discussed a couple of days ago here. But The Count,.
Among the better of the Charlie Chaplin Mutual comedies from 1916-17, The Adventurer shows the development of the Tramp character. In the early versions of this character, the Tramp was.
I generally love the films of Kelly Reichardt. Part of that is that she, along with Gus Van Sant, are the great Oregon directors. But that's not really it, even.
In 1892, the French military decided to colonize big chunks of western Africa. That year, they rampaged across what is today Benin and engaged in a massive looting of that.
In the immediate years after the talkie era began, Mervyn LeRoy was about as big as it got as a director. He was just pushing out content through the early.
Madeline Anderson's 1960 film Integration Report No. 1 is a solid film reviewing that moment in the civil rights movement. Some of it is stuff you remember and some of.
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles's 2019 film Bacurau is an absolutely brilliant horror-western that is a very lightly disguised allegory for life under Bolsonaro. Set in the "very near.
I had never seen any version of A Star is Born, including the recent one with Lady Gaga. The story is well known--girl wants to be famous in the entertainment.
