Max Linder and Charlie Chaplin.
Fans of slapstick should head to the Australian Cinémathèque at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art for 'The Silent Clown: Max Linder and Charlie Chaplin', running from 28 June to 13 July 2008.
Max Linder, cinema’s first great comedian, will be celebrated in a special program of silent film with live musical accompaniment on the Gallery’s Wurlitzer organ.
Appearing in over 500 films, Linder created a pioneering screen persona as the mischievous dandy who manages to somehow avoid catastrophe.
Less widely known than his counterparts in the United States, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the charismatic Linder influenced a host of screen actors with Charlie Chaplin even citing him as his mentor.
Linder classics will be complemented by a selection of Chaplin films highlighting the indelible influence of Linder on American silent comedy.
Entry to film programs is free.
Program overview
Max Linder Shorts Program (1912-1921) - Sat 28 June 11am
Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) - Sun 29 June 11am and Sun 13 July 11am
City Lights (1931) - Sat 5 July 11am and Sat 12 July 11am
L'homme au chapeau de soie The Man in the Silk Hat (1983) - Wed 2 July 2pm
En compagnie de Max Linder Laugh with Max Linder (1963) - Wed 9 July 2pm
The Circus (1928) - Sun 6 July 11am
All of these films are screened in Cinema A. For film notes and screening details please visit the Gallery website.
