City Lights (1931)
City Lights (1931) – The most recent Academy Award winner for Best Picture was The Artist, a [mostly] silent film about a silent film actor whose career hits the skids with the invention of talkies. It’s a great and moving picture but in real life one of the biggest silent film stars in the world … Continue reading
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940) – Short version: I love this movie so, so much. Longer version: It goes to figure that when Charlie Chaplin finally decided to talk, he really had something to say. Picking on Adolph Hitler may seem like going after low-hanging fruit. I mean, we live in the post-Mel Brooks era. Making … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 