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Links: City Lights & the Immigrant

Roger Ebert throws down for City Lights in his Great Movies series.

Spectacular Attractions praises and analyses City Lights.

A.O. Scott presents a nice video essay on the film over at the New York Times.

A detailed history of Chaplin's Mutual shorts (of which the Immigrant is one) comes from where else, but charliechaplin.com.

Top 5 Top 5 Lists Related To, But Not Including, City Lights & The Immigrant

Top 5 Charlie Chaplin Films:

1. The Gold Rush (1925)
2. Modern Times (1936)
3. Limelight (1952)
4. M. Verdoux (1947)
5. The Kid (1921)


Top 5 Silent Films Not Directed By Chaplin, Keaton or Murnau:

1. Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
2. Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927)
3. Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
4. I was Born, But. . . (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)
5. Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919)


Top 5 Films About Blind People:

1. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax, 1991)
2. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)
3. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
4. Night On Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991)
5. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004)


Top 5 Films About Immigrants:

1. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
2. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
3. The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
4. Ruggles Of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
5. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)


Top 5 Films of 1931:

1. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (FW Murnau)
2. M (Fritz Lang)
3. Le million (René Clair)
4. Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. À nous la liberté (René Clair)

Roses are Edna

Pray tell, what is the spell

Tell me what is the science

That made someone so swell

As Edna Purviance??

Silent siren of the silver screen

Your marvelous mug in the magazines

In beautiful bliss and in pitiful peril

You acted much better than Virginia Cherrill

As a lover and mother

There were no others

To compete with your beauty

You irascible cutie

So peerless and fearless

No one was left tearless

By Charlot's bien-amie

In films I count as thirty-three.

And wouldn't you dare us

As A Woman of Paris

To have us pining away

Til the end of our days?

Oh Edna Purviance

You've got my compliance

To follow your face

Of wonder and grace

Your orbital eyes

That no men despise

Oh heavenly skin

That knows no sin

As you are untouched by reality

But Edna dear let's make one thing clear

Before I bid adieu

There's something I must tell you

A secret I should speak before next week

My heart is a flutter, I hope I don't stutter

For as I prepare myself to retire

I really love Kathryn McGuire

Coming Attractions: City Lights w/ The Immigrant

Wednesday, November 18th at 7:00 and 9:10

Giveaways: Magnificent Obsession DVD courtesy of Scarecrow Video and a gift certificate for Rain City Video, respectively.

See you there!