Richard Schickel’s new documentary Charlie chronicles Charles Chaplin’s brilliant career as an actor, writer, director, producer, and composer, as well as his controversial and much-publicized private life. With brilliant observations, rare footage interwoven with scenes from Chaplin’s greatest films, and a remarkable series of a newly recorded interviews: Martin Scorsese memorably discusses Chaplin’s masterful A Woman of Paris and controversial Monsieur Verdoux, Woody Allen opines that City Lights is perhaps one of the great cinematic exploitations of love; Milos Forman mantains that The Great Dictator provided Europe with a spiritual catharsis after the Second World War; and Lord Attenborough recalls that seeing The Gold Rush as a boy was the defining moment that led him to become an actor and filmmaker. Richard Schickel has been a film critic for Time magazine for over three decades, and he is also the author of over thirty books and a similar number of television programs.