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 ...

Charles Chaplin chose exactly the wrong time to re-invent himself, at least as far as the American moviegoing public was concerned. After being hailed for the boldness of his Hitler-bashing 1940 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sobering thought occurred to me while rewatching Charles Chaplin’s once-controversial comedy “Monsieur Verdoux”: “Juno” and Judd Apatow’s crudely terrific ...

A sobering thought occurred to me while rewatching Charles Chaplin’s once-controversial comedy “Monsieur Verdoux”: “Juno” and Judd Apatow’s crudely terrific movies notwithstanding, I hadn’t seen a ...

Monsieur Verdoux, about a contemporary Bluebeard who makes a career out of marrying wealthy women and then murdering them for their money, is one of Charles Chaplin’s most controversial films. It also ...

“Monsieur Verdoux” is part of a coincidental Charlie Chaplin trifecta that’s joined by “The Gold Rush” (the recent DVD release of which, by Criterion, I discuss in the magazine this week) and ...

In 1942, Charlie Chaplin turned Orson Welles’s idea for a docudrama about Henri Landru, the real-life French Bluebeard of the nineteen-teens, into a comedy, “Monsieur Verdoux” (Criterion). Updating ...

A commercial disaster that essentially ended Charlie Chaplin's American film career, the 1947 "Monsieur Verdoux" has long since been rehabilitated as a classic. Critic James Agee wrote a three-part ...

You Must Remember This, the podcast that tells the secret and forgotten history of 20 th-century Hollywood, is back for a new season. When each episode airs, creator and host Karina Longworth will ...

BEFORE HANNIBAL LECTER, before Psycho, before the serial killer film became the pervasive genre of our time, a post- Little Tramp Charlie Chaplin explored the venerable but now largely unfamiliar ...