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I, The Dictator

I, The Dictator

Enjoyable one-man performance on encounter between Charlie Chaplin and Hitler

14 Aug 2011

One can’t help but reflect that Romuald Wicza-Pokojski’s production which speaks of Charlie Chaplin’s (Krystian Wieczynski) encounter with Hitler’s henchmen while he struggled for money to complete The Great Dictator, loses a little in translation from…

I, the Dictator - Teatr Wiczy brings show to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011

I, the Dictator - Teatr Wiczy brings show to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011

One-man Edinburgh Festival 2011 show reimagines Charlie Chaplin

26 Jul 2011

Teatro Replika – a small fringe theatre in Madrid – is not the most obvious place to catch up with Polish company Teatr Wiczy, whose one-man show about Charlie Chaplin, I, the Dictator, plays Edinburgh throughout the Fringe. It makes more sense…

Bo’ness Festival of Silent Cinema - Neil Brand interview

Screening highlights include films by Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd

6 Mar 2011

One imagines the two women who dreamed up The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema must have kept quiet about it until they launched it. Scotland’s first silent film festival in Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema? That idea’s so good it’s a wonder no…

Chaplin at Keystone

Chaplin at Keystone

30 Nov 2010

(U) 561min (BFI) Before he became an international star and acclaimed filmmaker, Charlie Chaplin learned to make movies at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company. Spotted in Fred Karno’s touring vaudeville troupe, Chaplin was snapped up by the silent…

The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush

Both versions of the Chaplin classic with lots of features

17 Aug 2010

Given that The Gold Rush was his most ambitious production, and that it was the film he wanted to be remembered for, it’s unsurprising that Chaplin should have returned to it 17 years after he made it in 1925 to re-edit, score and add narration.

The Kid

The Kid

28 Apr 2010

(U) 60min (Park Circus) By the time he made The Kid, Charlie Chaplin was an international movie star whose films had begun to earn a million bucks apiece. And although he’d been behind the camera since 1914, writing, directing, producing, editing…

Take One Action! Film Festival

Take One Action! Film Festival

15 Sep 2009

Anybody who has a poster of Theo Angelopolous’s The Weeping Meadow up on his wall is unlikely to ignore the aesthetics of film. But Take One Action organiser Simon Bateson also wants “to get bums off seats as well”. He wants the viewer watching various…

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