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Okay, just one more Chaplin post!  This is the ur-famous moment from The Gold Rush, a bit so well received that, it is reported, when it first unspooled in Berlin, the applauding opening-night crowd demanded the projectionist rewind the film and show the dance again before they would quiet down and allow the movie to proceed! Have a

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For a very short time, I was possibly the world's leading expert on Chaplin's work. I was making my silent, 1918-period film War Story, an homage to Chaplin's oeuvre, though with a modern twist (you can see my post on it here). Within a month or two, I had watched, at least twice (but in many cases a

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Sergio Leono is every bit the master of suspense as Hitchcock.  He's one of my all-time favorite directors (possibly my very favorite dead director), because of his boldness, funk, imagination and the cinematic weight his work always displays. In today's shot from what I think is his masterpiece, he draws out suspense in the form of a

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This is a shot from my dogme-styled feature, a oner that was inspired by the lateness of the day and the large number of actors in the scene, like my theory in the previous post on Willy Wonka.  In the scene, our main character, played by Jonathan Slavin, is throwing a birthday dinner party with Susan Slome and