Approaching death himself and conceiving an excellent metaphor for the disillusions of his own happiness, Edgar Allan Poe published in 1849 a poem by the name of Eldorado, whose last stanza alludes to the folly of those men of centuries earlier venturing into the Amazon, searching for an imaginary city:…
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Modern Times (1936)
Joe Franklin writes in Classics of the Silent Screen that “along with Griffith, Stroheim, Keaton and Fairbanks, Chaplin remains one of the half-dozen immortals of the American screen,” delimiting a pantheon that has since grown while retaining its primary figures, of whom Chaplin is one of the greatest.[1] By 1936…
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L’Atalante (1934)
As the congregants of a wedding walk to the riverside, accompanying newlyweds leaving by barge, a woman exclaims, “couldn’t she marry a local boy?” to which another quickly responds that “she always has to be different.” But the poignant difference is to be one of love. The marriage of Jean…
