There are any number of bright ways you could begin an account of Rick Griffin, but the important thing is that a sketch artist who not much more than a year ago was admiringly collecting work by the ...

“Sirkian” is an adjective little-known outside the refined realm of academic film studies, but to the cognoscenti the term is as evocative as appellations like “Chaplinesque” or “Hitchcockian.” ...

WOODEN SWORDS—Jacques Deval, translated by Lawrence S. Morris—Viking ($2.50). Many a shrewd, bitter, searching re-mark has been made about war behind war’s back. Author Deval’s remarks, no less bitter ...

"Free Floating" flows pleasantly along with young slacker Leonid as he drifts through a series of odd jobs in the Russian heartlands by the banks of the Volga. The Chaplinesque gags and off-kilter ...

In one of the funniest, sweetest scenes in Kafka on Ice, Erin Rollman skated on a floor of artificial ice, skidding, gliding and falling cutely about as a Chaplinesque Kafka (played by Gary Culig) ...

The Chaplinesque persona of South African artist Robin Rhode appears in a number of his works, many of which document his enchanting performances, using basic materials such as charcoal and chalk. His ...

Treading the path lesser known seems to be Ranbir Kapoor's forte. After an atypical debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya to Ayaan Mukherjee's slice-of-life romance Wake up Sid to the political ...

Ranbir Kapoor was enchanting in Anurag Basu’s Barfi! – the 2012 movie that showcased the actor advocating for love, disability, and everything in between. A refreshing change in an industry where ...

Ranbir Kapoor was magical in Anurag Basu’s Barfi! – the 2012 film which saw the actor champion love, disability and everything in between. A breath of fresh air in an industry where grandeur ...