Looking for Charlie – A Documentary about Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Suicidal Clowns who inspired them | Stream Now
https://vimeo.com/570320293 Click the PLAY button to begin streaming Looking for Charlie now. Stream Now Looking for Charlie is a feature length documentary that explores the forgotten lives of a pair of suicidal clowns who inspired Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Production of this film ...
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Pop Culture Reviews
In between producing my first feature length documentary and creating content for The Artist in American History podcast series I like to look at new and old films, music, art, and literature. In these reviews and retrospectives, I look at the themes and ideas from a variety of ...
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Over the Rainbow – Why Looking for Charlie is Black and White
When production started on Looking for Charlie back in March we (naively) devoted little thought to how the finished film might use colour. Of course we put a lot of effort into trying to capture images that were as vibrant and consistent as possible but big questions remained. ...
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Looking For Charlie – The Breakdown
Looking For Charlie - "The story of the suicidal clowns who inspired Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton" Concept We all know Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, and Harold Lloyd. Their films made them immortal. But what about the generation of comedians who inspired those ...
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Thoughts On Honesty in Documentary Films
Documentary films can be many different things. On one end of the spectrum are dry, PBS-sytle educational films and biographies. Straight forward narratives which seek to define truth for the viewer, not challenge it. They inform but they rarely provoke. On the other end of the ...
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Looking For Charlie – Teaser Trailer
Introducing: Looking for Charlie (+ Teaser Trailer) - Click Play to View When we think about the most important comedians of the early twentieth century a list of familiar names come to mind – Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and, of course, master of them all, Charlie ...
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The Interview – Review (It’s all in the Context)
Circumstances and context can make even the most asinine, rote film much more important than the sum of its parts. That's not to say that one should not try to separate art from the larger narrative, that one should not try to understand and appreciate it purely on its own terms, but to place a ...
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