By this point of my Cinematic Century project I think it’s pretty clear that I have a real affection for the work of Charlie Chaplin. Just about every film that he made has become my favorite film of the year they were released, and he really is […]
What a surprise! Yet another week here of the Cinematic Century and yet another Charlie Chaplin flick to discuss. I’m very on brand here. Charlie Chaplin was just a wonderful creator, and he had an almost ridiculous skill at making films that are so perfectly up my […]
Well, well, well, look what we have here. Despite the fact that by 1936 the talkies had entirely supplanted the silents as the dominant form of cinema, good old Charlie Chaplin was still hanging on. Chaplin was convinced that the talkies were a fad, and remained obstinate […]
Well, well, well, look what we have here. Even after last week’s first foray into the brave new world of the talkies we’re jumping back into the silents for yet another film from the oeuvre of good old Charlie Chaplin. Even though the talkies were becoming a […]
Oh, look! It’s time to talk about good old Charlie Chaplin again! We get to keep this streak of classic silent comedies going this week with the film that Charlie Chaplin claimed he hoped he’d be most remembered for. I don’t think that that’s necessarily been the […]
Another year, another Chaplin movie to talk about here on Cinematic Century. I’ll let you in on a little secret, basically from here on out if Charlie Chaplin released a film, it’s going to be my pick. And not necessarily just because it’s the only film I’ve […]
Here at the beginning of an all new year I’ve decided to bring an all new feature here on the site. Because I feel like I don’t get to talk about the movies I love enough here. I often get distracted with the newest films to be […]
One of the biggest blind-spots I have when it comes to American cinema is certainly Silent Films. I really hadn’t seen any Silent Films before the beginning of this year, when I started to check some of them out as part of my quest to see 366 movies […]
