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Charlie Chaplin Collectors’ Guide: Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914)
Charting the convoluted release history of the first feature length film for Chaplin, Keystone and comedy itself One of the most famous of all silver screen comedies, it was a huge success
Bootlegs Galore: The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rip-off
Contrary to popular belief, NONE of Hitchcock’s films are in the public domain – anywhere Years of speculation and misinformation by cocksure commentators muddy the waters The most pirated classic
Charlie Chaplin Collectors’ Guide: A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)
Two big budget, dramatic versions of Carmen hit cinemas in 1915, inspiring Chaplin’s brilliant spoof But immediately on completion Chaplin’s original version disappeared, destroyed for decades Only mangled reissue edits
Charlie Chaplin Collectors’ Guide, Part 8
1918–1967 Shorts and Features in HD Charlie Chaplin Competition: Win Artificial Eye Blu-rays and DVDs! Concluding this definitive overview of the silent movie icon’s lengthy career This time it’s the
Charlie Chaplin Collectors’ Guide, Part 7
Shorts and Features 1918–1967 Charlie Chaplin Competition: Win Artificial Eye Blu-rays and DVDs! We move on to perhaps Chaplin’s best known works: his later shorts and feature films on DVD
Charlie Chaplin Collectors’ Guide, Part 6
Essanay and Mutual Restored in HD Covering the definitive editions of the Little Tramp’s pivotal short films They’re the closest ever to the versions Chaplin’s original audiences saw Now with
Charlie Chaplin Collectors’ Guide, Part 5
Essanay and Mutual 1980s–2000s Restorations For many years the Little Tramp’s mid-1910s films were inaccessible and languished in poor condition In the 1980s, film preservationist David Shepard fully restored them
Charlie Chaplin Collectors’ Guide, Part 4
Keystone 1914 The Little Tramp makes his first foray into film and refines the art of motion picture comedy More than mere early sketches, Chaplin’s earliest films offer much broad
Anthony Asquith’s Shooting Stars Makes Dazzling Début on BFI Blu-ray and DVD
Giveaway: Win BFI Blu-ray/DVD Sets of Anthony Asquith’s Shooting Stars! Following the British Film Institute’s acclaimed restorations of wunderkind British director Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) and A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929), it’s
Charlie Chaplin Competition: Win Artificial Eye Blu-rays and DVDs!
We’re giving away two Chaplin films of your choice on Blu-ray or DVD Two lucky readers will get to choose any one of his restored masterpieces It’s all thanks to