Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Director and actor Charlie Chaplin laughs raucously during the making of his ...

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 ...

You travel back to September 1952 and find Charlie Chaplin mid-Atlantic, bound for London to promote Limelight, when U.S. officials pull his re-entry papers and effectively bar him from returning. The ...

Charles Chaplin, for whom silence used to be golden, is furiously loquacious in “Limelight,” and while the ideas he is expounding are meritorious (he is in favor of charity and love), he pours them ...

Charlie Chaplin was in great spirits during the production of his 1952 film “Limelight,” his first film since his poorly received 1947 dark comedy, “Monsieur Verdoux. “ “Limelight,” turned out to be ...