Thursday 16 December 2010

Chaplin at Keystone



My first piece of work for another website has gone up at 'The Void' (http://the-void.co.uk). It's a nice little site that over a few years has built up an impressive catalogue of film reviews.

Its here: http://the-void.co.uk/dvd-review/dvd-chaplin-keystone-062/

I was given the opportunity to review a new Charlie Chaplin boxset recently released by the BFI. I've never been much of a Chaplin or silent comedy fan, sure I like both, but i'm not too passionate about either. That said, I really enjoyed the films in the Chaplin at Keystone boxset. It was a box that was effectively put together, by that I mean, the quality of film prints and soundtracks were excellent. The liner notes in particular were extremely helpful when flicking through thirty-five films, and saved me the trouble of looking on wikipedia to find my bearings.

So i'd appreciate it if you'd give it a read.