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Salad of reblogs, selected by Tanel Teemusk on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/24034213
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The Great Dictator - 1940
This is what Chaplin said about this film:
In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he would not have been able to make such jokes about the Nazi regime had the extent of the Nazi horrors been known, particularly the death camps and the Holocaust
In 1997, The Great Dictator was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.[31][32]
In 2000, the American Film Institute ranked the film #37 in its “100 Years… 100 Laughs” list.[33]
The film had been banned in many parts of Europe, and the theatre’s owner, Alfred Esdaile, was apparently fined for showing it.[28] It eventually became Chaplin’s highest grossing film.
Today the speech at the end of The Great Dictator has swept across the Internet due in part to the subject matter being topical to the atrocities in the world today.
Shakespeare, I Love You: Pericles in Chicago
5 Acts. 5 Companies. 1 Play - Shakespeare’s Pericles has been divided up into acts and each act is developed independently by a different performance group, each group is allowed complete artistic freedom over how they interpret the text, and the play will be performed as one on March 30-April 1 at the Den Theatre in Chicago - HELP SUPPORT THE ARTS
DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP*
*unless the ship is shot to pieces and 4 out of 5 men are either dead or wounded; in which case, definitely give up that ship, and get yourself a better ship
Commodore Perry Leaving the “Lawrence” for the “Niagara. Battle of Lake Erie
Thomas Birch, XIX Century
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Troilus and Cressida
This week on the Copyright-Free Play Archive: Why William Effing Shakespeare’s take on the Trojan war is so little-known, the death of heroism, the question of Helen of Troy’s rape, the greatest clownish bastard ever, and a happy anti-Valentine’s Day.
