WAR STORY
War Story, which L.A Weekly declared, if I may mention, "triumphs on all fronts" (L.A. Weekly review here). This is the film I was referring to in my post on Chaplin's film Pay Day. When I was first inspired to make this
THE GOLD RUSH (1925, Chaplin)
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
PAY DAY (1922, Chaplin)
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