A hundred years ago, Charlie Chaplin was the biggest film comedian in the United States. Drawing on the pantomime he’d mastered in the British music halls, the 25-year-old expatriate had pioneered a ...

The documentary attempts to restore a sense of mystery to Chaplin’s life and work, but the filmmakers mostly run through a well-trodden timeline. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an ...

This fragile little man who has shaken the wide world with laughter looks at himself and feels he is a greater joke⁠—a less merry and more wistful⁠—than any he has concocted. There was, for instance, ...

A West Berlin cinema audience saw nothing to laugh at and nothing to applaud when Charlie Chaplin’s hilarious satire on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, “The Great Dictator,” had its German premiere ...