The state capital receives the Chaplin Cinema Show, which will display 83 films of this world cinema icon in a kind of retrospective of his work. From October 8 to November 2, the show will be on display at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB), with free admission.
Among the highlights are masterpieces of silent cinema that resisted the arrival of sound, as well as classics spoken. The public will be able to watch movies like The Great Dictator (1940), satire to Nazism, and Ribalta Lights (1952), in which Chaplin shares the scene with Buster Keaton in a reunion with the vaudeville – Entertainment genre.
The program brings together shorts, medium and feature films, as well as inclusive session, course and debate. Part of the titles will be displayed on film (16mm), which offers the public a film experience near the original. The curatorship is by José de Aguiar and the production of Firula Filmes.
According to the show’s curatorship, Chaplin was the first artist to experience world fame in the age of mass culture and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of cinema.
Retrospective of Charles Chaplin’s work will be presented from October 8 to November 2 – Photo Chaplin Cinema Show/Disclosure
Shorts will also be shown from Keystone, Essenay and Mutual studios, including Car race for boys (1914).
“The retrospective is rare opportunity to see and review all the genius of Charles Chaplin, who began his career in the film in 1914, was an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, composer and contributed immensely to the formation of film language in his beginnings,” said the CCBB.
Curator points out that Chaplin built humor from everyday situations, subverting an ordinary reality.
“The way Chaplin treats the figure of the most disadvantaged, within a humanist view, remains quite current. The inspiration that the problems and difficulties of the early twentieth century seemed to generate in Chaplin, remain the same to this day,” said curator José de Aguiar, in a statement.
Retrospective of Charles Chaplin’s work will be shown at CCBB -SP – Photo Show Chaplin/Disclosure
According to Aguiar, this is one of the reasons why its character Carlitos is still able to generate identification with the contemporary public. Charles Chaplin was born in London in 1889 and had his childhood marked by difficulties. His career crossed the silent cinema and the spoken, gathering comedy and social criticism.
The full schedule is in the website bb.com.br/cultura.
