Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin On Broadway: My Review

The new musical about Charlie Chaplin is nicely designed, affectionate, and fairly well played, but kind of dull. Being fascinated by the magical artistry of Chaplin--as we all are--doesn't necessarily mean you'd thrill to recreations of fragments from his personal life, interspersed with a handful ... More >>

Tramp Trampled: Chaplin Shows Frenzied Footage But Little Focus

Class Action Listings

Limelight

Tippi Hedren: Hitchcock Cost Me An Oscar Nomination

At Cinema Village last night, Tippi Hedren--star of Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie (the 1964 psychological drama in which she was a frigid klepto)--made the above allegation. After a showing of The Birds, Tippi told interviewer Robert Milazzo, "Apparently I was up for a nomination for Marnie, an ... More >>

The Gold Rush

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Monsieur Verdoux

The Five Saddest Songs Ever Written

​Feeling down and want that extra push into suicide land? Here are your five best bets: (5) "Hello, It's Me" by Todd Rundgren The simple, conversational tone, along with dark feelings like "Maybe I think too much, but something's wrong," make this 1968 classic achingly intimate. Its raw sw ... More >>

OLD-TIMEY FUN

The Red Hook Ramblers provide the soundtrack to silent-film classics

The Circus

The Great Dictator

Have You Heard the One About the Art Scene Embracing Comedians?

Andy Kaufman in the gallery

TEARS OF A CLOWN

How Charlie Chaplin influenced the talkies

Charlie Chaplin Classes Up the 1972 Oscars Ceremony

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 20, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 16 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The 44th annual festivities of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began with a whimper and ended with a bang, demonstrating that, among other things, Oscar ... More >>

SOUND OF SLAPSTICK

Alloy Orchestra plays to score

What to Buy the Movie Buff Who Has Everything?

Time Traveler's Wife: Top Five Alternatives to Possible Cell Phone Use

​Considering the whole world has recently gone on an extraterrestrial binge, it's only natural the next step would be time-traveling. While watching an extended scene of the 1928 Charlie Chaplin film The Circus, George Clarke, an Irish filmmaker, discovered what he believes to be an account of ... More >>

City Lights

SLICE IT

Play ping-pong for free in Bryant Park

Summer Guide: Casey Affleck Hopes to Slay 'Em With The Killer Inside Me

An interview with the star of Michael Winterbottom's new film

How to Tell the Difference Between Cocaine and Anthrax: A Crib Sheet

​If you're going to come to New York to work in fashion, you should probably know the difference between cocaine and anthrax. It's that simple. Via Page Six, an employee of NYC fashion megastar Marc Jacobs didn't, as she received a package that had powder in it, thought it was Anthrax, called ... More >>

DO THE TIGHTROPE

Janelle Monáe juggles three nights in NYC

'Silent Films/Live Guitars with David Bromberg & Marc Ribot'

City Lights

Bid on Michael Jackson's "Swarovski Crystal Gemmed Stage Worn Socks" Tomorrow in Times Square

​Also available: "A painting of Charlie Chaplin done in the hand of Michael Jackson at the age of 9 years old," the acoustic guitar he played on the set of the The Wiz, "chocolate from Jackson's wedding to Lisa Marie Presley," and other memorabilia of the same disturbingly bodily ilk. Tomorrow ... More >>

Janelle Monáe, Space Cowgirl

On the daffy sci-fi audacity of a fledgling r&b superstar

Clip Job: Folk Music Grows Up

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 4, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 50Folk Music Grows UpBy Stephanie GervisThe 1950s will probably go down as the decade in which folk music lost its purity and brought the Kingston Trio into the world. In the '60s it is entering its high renaissance ... More >>

The Gold Rush

GESTAPO = BOFFO B.O.

Nazi jokes return to Broadway

Monsieur Verdoux: Chaplin in Paris

The Tramp matures, messily

Salma Hayek Sells Out

She is no Cantinflas

Holiday Lights

Plus cartoons at MOMI and Fosse at the Walter Reade

Old Hollywood

At 93 and the subject of a new documentary, Norman Lloyd is still in the biz

Disinformation DVD

From money-grubbing capitalists to Nazi beasts

Film

Existential Jazz

Stache Bash

Facial Hair Cooks and Dances for Charity

Film

Daddy Dearest

Brando Flicks From Pre-Reagan Salad Days

Stage Frights

Recollecting actors’ nightmares with therapeutic humor

Seeing Red

The last flowering of socialist realism, or, 'Look into the far distance with confidence!'

First Icon on Your Screen

Schickel explores the love-hate between Chaplin and the masses—and the clips are great

A Chaplin classic sounds off on Hollywood dream factory

Distribute the Wealth

Animal Crackers

Queer as Folk Dance

Performing Gender in Phnom Penh and on Gay Barricades

Letters

Behind the Screen

Online Stripping Takes Off