Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton had been the 2 greatest comedy stars of the silent period, however because it happened, they never shared the display till effectively into the reign of sound. In truth, their collaboration didn’t come about till 1952, the identical yr that Singin’ within the Rain dramatized the already distant-feeling introduction of…
By way ofout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a big amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Gap Solar” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power.” Of their latest video, they revisit an outdated favourite: Leonard Cohen’s…
Again in 2016, New York Metropolis staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946. One occasion within the festival featured actor Viggo Mortensen giving a learning of Camus’ lecture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University–the exact same place the place Camus delivered the lecture 70 years earlier–all the way down to…