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If the early slapstick of the Keystone comedies represents Chaplin’s cinematic infancy, the films he made for the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company are his adolescence.
Buoyed by his enormously successful comedies for Keystone and Essanay, he was offered the largest salary ever extended to a motion picture star.
From the moment he entered movies, Charles Chaplin knew that he needed total creative autonomy
From time to time, like any artist, Chaplin experienced creative blocks; but this was one of the worst in his career. No doubt one cause was his private life
Many of Chaplin's admirers regard "The Kid" as his most perfect and most personal film
A Woman of Paris was a courageous step in the career of Charles Chaplin.
Charles Chaplin made "The Gold Rush" out of the most unlikely sources for comedy
The Circus won Charles Chaplin his first Academy Award - it was still not yet called the Oscar
"City Lights" proved to be the hardest and longest undertaking of Chaplin's career
"Modern Times" marked the last screen appearance of the Little Tramp
In French. Will be translated soon :)
Charles Chaplin made "Limelight" at the most troubled period of his adult career
Charles Chaplin, without modesty, described "Monsieur Verdoux" as “the cleverest and most brilliant film of my career”
With "A King in New York" Charles Chaplin was the first to expose, through satire, the paranoia which overtook the U.S in the 50s
