Limelight is billed as follows by La Jolla: "Charlie Chaplin came to America an unknown and left amidst scandals and controversy. In between, he became one of the best-loved and most famous ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Play has its moments but falls into the usual trap of trying to cover too much ground. For a pleasing if derivative kickoff, young Charlie (Jake Schwenke) makes his London music-hall debut with mum ...

Charles Chaplin, for whom silence used to be golden, is furiously loquacious in “Limelight,” and while the ideas he is expounding are meritorious (he is in favor of charity and love), he pours them ...

Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the ...

You travel back to September 1952 and find Charlie Chaplin mid-Atlantic, bound for London to promote Limelight, when U.S. officials pull his re-entry papers and effectively bar him from returning. The ...