Tag: Charlie Chaplin
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The Marx Brothers and American Comedy
by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ The Electric Agora’s own E. John Winner spoke with me about the Marx Brothers and their relationship to American Comedy. https://youtu.be/5Hkjtbmlces 1:30 Vaudeville, Burlesque, and Musical Theater 11:20 The Jewish Marx Brothers and “Playing in Peoria” 22:00 Writing for the Marx Brothers / Relationship with George Kaufman 27:40 Becoming the…
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Cinema: A Personal Perspective
by Mark English It is impossible to put an exact date on it, but around 1990 I changed my mind about movies – or at least new movies. I was increasingly indifferent to them. Even many films of a type I would normally have appreciated had become positively painful to watch. An appreciation of the…