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Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

With the 1952 film “Limelight” (which I discuss in this clip), Charlie Chaplin was both telling a counterfactual version of his life story and attempting a comeback. He had never lost his fame, but he ...

An alert to my colleagues in the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle: I hereby nominate Rob McClure for a Craig Noel Award, Lead Performance in a Musical, Male. His Charlie Chaplin in Limelight, at the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Charlie Chaplin, the silent movie star who only reluctantly made the ...

New restorations of two classic films are being released this month. Both are works of masters from cinema’s past. The first is LIMELIGHT, a mature, philosophical drama written and directed by and ...

A nostalgic look at the life of a bygone success a "Tramp comedian," in fact is the focus of this, Charles Chaplin's second-last film and his most autobiographical in a career of personally-oriented ...

A 34,000-word novella that Charlie Chaplin wrote in the late 1940s is being published for the first time by a film institute in Italy. The book was the basis of his last great film, “Limelight.” The ...

Chaplin the man is the subject of Peter Middleton and James Spinney’s feature-length documentary, which in its stream-of-consciousness approach and the supple, conversational narration of actress ...