Napoléon is coming to LONDON in NOVEMBER 2013!

NOVEMBER 2013

Abel Gance's 

Napoléon 

Royal Festival Hall
November 30, 2013 - London, England

with Carl Davis and the Philharmonia Orchestra

RARE EVENT! Tickets on sale soon
NOW! and it appears to be nearly sold out for Nov. 30th Check this link for seats still available
(At this update, no word on an added date)

This is the trailer from last year's presentation in Oakland, California.

Check this link at Silent London and watch for more information when available.

Coming TCM silent film highlights

Get TCM USA? Here are some dates to mark on your TCM calendar for silent film and Chaplin  highlights:


TCM USA Viewers: Here are a few highlights to mark on your calendar:

January 19th

Hollywood My Hometown (1965)

Ken Murray - Documentary - Includes footage of many stars, including silent film stars like Charlie and Syd Chaplin.

February 8th

Sunrise (1927) - George O' Brien and Janet Gaynor.

Primetime showings

February 19th

The Racket (1928) - With Thomas Meighan and Marie Prevost.

Wings (1927) - With Clara Bow and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers.

March 1st

The Circus - with Merna Kennedy and Henry Bergman

And a couple 'talkie' Chaplin films:

March 1st

Monsieur Verdoux - with Martha Raye

March 5th

Limelight - with Clara Bloom and Sydney Chaplin, jr.

GREAT - Did the Nazis ever see Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator?

GREAT

Yugoslavia, 1942: based on a true and astonishing resistance story
about the Nazis and Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator' film

Dog Ear Films

"May 10th, 1942: a relatively minor event on the brink of world history, which, had it not really happened, would certainly be worth of being dreamt up. All of Yugoslavia is occupied by Nazi-Germany. Nikola, a young Serbian projectionist, has had more than enough.

Instead of emulating his violent Partisan friends, Nikola decides to teach the Germans a lesson all by himself. His weapon of choice: ,The Great Dictator‘ by Charlie Chaplin. His target: a cinema for German soldiers right in the heart of Serbia. What happens there, Nikola couldn't possibly have imagined in his wildest dreams.  GREAT, Facebook Fan page

GREAT (2013), the new film directed by Andreas Henn and from Dog Ear Films covers this story. It releases early this year. Here is the preview trailer. Hopefully, this will be available widely to see.

Update: According to the press kit, this is a short film (22 minutes). Hopefully, it will be available in some format for fans to see.

The Caravan's Trail, Charles Chaplin's Untold Story

The Caravan's Trail, Charles Chaplin's Untold Story
by Michael Chaplin and Stany Coppet

The documentary following the trail to Charlie Chaplin's possible gypsy roots. Here is a brief clip from the current production. More about the project here from NewArts Entertainment. LINK

Matthew Sweet - Chaplin and Music

December 29th, 2012
CHAPLIN AND MUSIC
with Matthew Sweet

BBC 3 Radio
Online for the next seven days
LINK

Special SMILE recording for Christmas

UK singer, Katherine Crowe, gets her dream chance to record SMILE at the Abbey Road Studios in London. Crowe, who is terminal ill with cancer, plans to use the proceeds from the record sales to help fund new cancer programs. Her recording will be in the running for the annual UK Christmas #1 countdown. You can read more at this BBC News link.

New Charlie Chaplin books

If you are looking for some new Charlie Chaplin books to add to your collection or updating an old favorite, you should check these out.


Release date: December 26, 2012
Charlie Chaplin's 'My Autobiography' (paperback)
The USA 2012 re-issue of the 1964 edition
from Melville House, Neversink Library collection
CLICK> Link to more about the book 




Charlie Chaplin's own book, that every fan should have, as it's Chaplin as he saw himself.














Release date: January 8, 2013
RECOMMENDED NEW BOOK
'Chaplin's Music Hall: The Chaplin's and their Circle in the Limelight'
by Barry Anthony
The USA release from I.B. Tauris press
CLICK> Link to more about the book

A new book about the early music hall days in England. Each chapter focuses on people who influenced Chaplin during his stage career. (A recommend from Dominique, from the Chaplin Library)










August 4, 2012 release
My Trip Abroad, by Charlie Chaplin
from Forgotten Books
CLICK> Link to more about the book

A paperback reprint of the original 1922 book. Since the original is a collectors item, this is the most reasonable cost way of getting this book into your collection. Again, seeing Chaplin through his own personal insights.

Charlie Chaplin Imitator image

As many real fans already know, this is NOT the real Charlie Chaplin, but an imitator. Unfortunately, there are people who don't know the difference. So this imposture's image gets in newspapers, magazines and even book publications.

One way to help correct this, is to help educated people. If you see any publication using this image, let the publishers know, they are not using a real Charlie Chaplin image, but someone dressed as a look-alike.

The Great Dictator speech, Remixed

Here's a very well made remix of Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator' speech, from Melody Sheep, renamed 'Let Us All Unite!'.

The Chaplin Library November 2012 Update

November 2012
Dominique Dugros 10 latest Charlie Chaplin book additions to
The Chaplin Library - Database

Link to November 2012 current latest list
(Current list of 15 books change, as new books are added)

Edna Purviance .org 11th Anniversary!

November 25th - EdnaPurviance.org 11th year on the web, heading toward it's 12th:

It was on Sunday, November 25, 2001, I emailed a link to Chaplin UK web creator, Garen Ewing. Garen had recently converted his original Chaplin UK site into the Chaplin Society official website. It was on The Chaplin  Society website where he placed that link I sent him. And at that moment, ednapurviance.org was officially launched on the web.

Garen was the very first person to see Edna's website before it was an .org site, after 9/11. His total enthusiasm, alone, sparked me from taking something that was on my hard drive, to making it into an official website. My husband found out, Edna Purviance .org domain name was available, and purchased it.  I'd continued working on the site, and with my husband's help, launched it on Sunday, November 25th, 2001.  

I would have never done it without Garen's enthusiastic first response, as I still had doubters around, who didn't understand why I wanted to do this, or even research Edna. But Garen understood, as did Dominique Durgos. Dominique helped me create the French version of Edna's site, which was launched on November 25th, 2002. 

Later, Dominique and I (with the help of his wife Emeline) created The Chaplin Library, which was launched on July 28, 2005. With the library getting so huge, Garen helped a great deal again, as he developed the database for The Chaplin Library, which has been INVALUABLE.

Of course, none of this would be still going, if it wasn't for all the fans, from around the world, who continue to support Edna Purviance. Very grateful to each one of you, for being her fan. Edna's site started with over 50,000 pages read that first year to now, over 700,000 pages read per year (closing in on six million). 

It's been a real pleasure to meet many of you, by the web, over the years, from all the countries Edna's fans live. I am just so very glad that Edna's first fan I knew and sent a link to in the fall of 2001, was such an enthusiastic one. 

[Currently, working on Edna's family biography.]

Have a Charlie Chaplin Christmas for your special fan

Have a Charlie Chaplin fan on your list? Here is a list of the latest DVDs and Blu-Rays of Chaplin films, music and mixer of books about Charles Chaplin, old and new, to keep an eye out for, online and in bookshops.

Charlie Chaplin films - Blu-Ray and DVD Collections

Charlie Chaplin Music - CD collections 

Charlie Chaplin books - Great place to see old and new editions of books about Chaplin

Ben Model's Kickstarter for Rare Silents

Help silent film composer, Ben Model, reach his goal! Ben is raising money to create a DVD of his rare  silent films from his own collect. All the films have been scored by Ben and will be transferred in HD. If you like to see this happen, read here and follow the link to learn more.

The "ACCIDENTALLY PRESERVED" rare/lost silent movie project

I own more than a dozen short silent movies that are either lost films or just really really rare.  The copies I have are vintage 16mm film editions made in the 1930s and 1940s, and are still projectable and usable. 

I want to produce a DVD, for classic film collectors, that will have these films on them in HD transfers and with new musical scores that I will create; I will also release the films on YouTube for all the world to enjoy.

I hope you'll make a pledge, and help me get these films out of cans and onto peoples' screens so they can been enjoyed and studied.  With your help, these films that have been unavailable to enjoy and own for decades will been seen again. - Ben Model

LINK TO ACCIDENTALLY PRESERVED

Glimpse of silent films events

Sorry for the low amount of post, but very busy with normal work and on Edna's bio. Meanwhile, silent films events and showings continue to happen around the world, as this short glimpse at a recent showing in Toronto, at the Toronto International Film Festival.




And here at the Ad Astra, in Lithuania, this last July 2012.



Also, a nice trailer to advertise Le Giognate Del Cinema Muto - in Italy (David Robinson, director of the annual event in October.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDNA!!!!

I have been very busy, so no big plans for today, but I am continuing to work on Edna's family bio.