Chaplin’s “Monsieur Verdoux” will open Friday at Film Forum. Unfortunately I won’t be back on time in NY to see the movie.
J. Hoberman writes in today's Herald Tribune an interesting piece about this movie. (I could not find the article in the online edition of the newspaper.)
According to the article Chaplin said in an interview: “Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business.” I have to add that “Monsieur Verdoux” was one of my father’s favorite movies.
And when Chaplin died my father took me to a grand theatre in Amsterdam to see “Modern Times”.
Iraq was an important experience but seeing “Modern Times” back then was groundbreaking.

On a different not I'm not sure what to think of this article: German neo-Nazis: We're pro-Israel, condemn anti-Semitism.