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Lisa Clarke takes a look at Richard Attenbo rough's loving film biogra phy of one of Hollywood's greats
You do need to be a little curious role, so he switched studios over a fictional character who probes far- Open Daily 9am - 6 pm
about the life of Charlie Chaplin to the issue. Downey was a brilliant ther than Chaplin's autobiography Sundays 9am - lOam
get the most from Richard Attenbor- choice and executed Chaplin's is prepared to go.
ough's latest movie, now showing visual gags and melancholic moods Inspector Morse fans will be
pleased to find John Thaw co-star-
at the MGM. But that aside, it's an to a tee. The movie also incorpo-
ring as Fred Karno. Other stars
intelligent and one of the best cine- rates clips from some of Chaplin's
biographies ever made. most famous silent films, pinning include Geraldine Chaplin, who (3oldwyn
plays her own grandmother; Dan
Two and a half hours long, the their greatness to the fact that
film charts Chaplin's rise and fall, Chaplin was probably the hardest Aykroyd as Mack Sennet; Kevin
from his Dickensian boyhood and working perfectionist in Hollywood. Kline as Douglas Fairbanks; and
Moira Kelly who plays both Chaplin's Il •;
slapstick start with Fred Karno's To help frame the story and keep
first love, Hefty Kelly, and his last
vaudeville troupe to his Hollywood it moving along, Anthony Hopkins
years, sex scandals and political also stars as editor George Hayden, love Oona O'Neil.
exile. (A voracious appetite for CINEMAS
young women, Chaplin fathered 10 Films for February
children, although the Los Angeles
3 February
courts pegged him with an 11th,
Throne of Blood (Arts Centre)
and ordered him to payfor the child's
Kurosawa's highly acclaimed
upbringing - even though bloodtests SATURDAY
Japanese version of Macbeth set in
proved the baby wasn't his.)
Samurai times MORNING
Attenborough had a tough time
5 February
convincing Universal Picturestose- MOVIES FOR
Honey I Blew Up the Kid. (MGM)
lect Robert Downey Jr. for the title
Three years after inadvertently KIDS AT
shrinking and then unshrinking his
children in the international THE MGM
blockbuster Honey I Shrunk the
ho: aur

S. I Kids', scientist Wayne Szalinski is
at it again this time enlarging his
Specialists in authentic new baby to over 112 feet tall. 6 February
Indian paintings ranging Treasure Island
12 February
from Indian mythology Stay Tuned. (MGM) Outrageous (PG)
to wildlife studies. comedy starring John Ritter
(Problem Child I & II) about a
We also undertake portrait r
suburban couple who accept a 24
commissions, hand painted hourtrial of a megachannel satellite 13 February
on silk from photographs dish which catapults them into an
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For more infromation, called hellvision. (U)
telephone Ranjit Matharu 17 February L J
on 0793 876178 Paths of Glory (Arts Centre) Bitter
critique of military hypocracy
20 February
19 February
Hellraiser 3. (MGM) Third instal- The Land Before
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VI EOPiC .2:. ANS FEE Under Siege. (MGM) Action thriller 27 February
V.,L C 1K starring Steven Seagel as Casey
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S decorated past as a Navy Seal,
RANSEEE (PG)
who has to lead the ship's skeleton
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Honeymoon in Vegas. (MGM)
Comedy starring Nicholas Cage as Tickets: £1.70
To transfer your ciné film, slides & photos onto video, please contact\ Jack Singer who travels to Las MGM
VideoPics Vegas to marry his long term Shaw Ridge
(0793) 513305 (24 hours) 71 girlfriend but loses her to Tommy West Swindon
Also USA/UK Format Conversions Korman (James Caan) in a rigged
poker game.
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