We’ve uploaded a new video to our Youtube channel, TheChaplinFilms, featuring footage from the Chaplin archives of Max Linder visiting Chaplin in Los Angeles in 1917. Watch the archive footage below. And don’t forget to subscribe to our channel to stay updated on new videos!
From November to February, a licensed stage adaptation of Chaplin’s Limelight with Antonio Salines and Marianella Bargilli will be touring throughout Italy (Bolzano, Mogliano Veneto, Trieste, Bologna, Sicily, Rome, Naples…)
Read about the show on the Roma Today website (in Italian).
We’ve uploaded a new video to our Youtube channel, TheChaplinFilms, featuring footage from the Chaplin archives of a costume test for an unused dream sequence for City Lights in which Chaplin appears as a prince. Watch the archive footage below. And don’t forget to subscribe to our channel to stay updated on new videos!
19th - 25th October 2016
Mon Premier Festival is a film festival in Paris for young audiences. This year, the festival is paying tribute to Chaplin with screenings of several of his films, from early silent comedies to The Great Dictator.
Visit the festival’s website for more details.
The Chicago International Film Festival pays tribute to Geraldine Chaplin on October 15, 2016. Known for her acclaimed performances in films like DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, NASHVILLE, and WELCOME TO L.A. among others, the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill will appear onstage at the Essanay Studios - where her father shot His New Job in 1915.
Clips from Geraldine Chaplin’s decades-spanning career will accompany a discussion with film critic and historian David Robinson, author of “Chaplin: His Life and Art”. She will also receive the Festival’s Career Achievement Award.
More information available on the Chicago International Film Festival website.
From October 6, 2016 to June 1, 2017
At the MK2 Gambetta movie theatre in Paris, Edgar Sekloka (singer, poet, writer) will perform live with other musicians and special guests, accompanying early Chaplin comedy shorts.
Schedule :
6 October 2016 - The Immigrant (featuring Mélissa Laveaux)
3 November 2016 - Twenty Minutes of Love and Making a Living (featuring FM Laeti)
1 December 2016 - The Vagabond (featuring TBD)
2 February 2017 - The Adventurer (featuring Lou Marco)
2 March 2017 - The Floorwalker (featuring TBD)
4 May 2017 - Dough and Dynamite (featuring Blick Bassy)
1 June 2017 - The Count (featuring TBD)
More information on MK2’s website.
“Atelier 76” is a non-profit association which runs filmmaking workshops called “Ciné-Pousse” in primary schools in the working-class neighborhoods of Seine-St-Denis near Paris.
They are hoping to get a 20,000 euro prize from the Fondation EDF. Please help them by voting for them on the Fondation EDF’s website (click on “VOTER POUR NOTRE ASSOCIATION”, then provide an e-mail address or log in via Facebook). Thank you. Fingers crossed!