CHARLIE CHAPLIN FESTIVAL
September 22: "Chaplin" 1992 biography starring
Robert Downey, Jr.
September 29: "Gold Rush" Chaplin's spoof on the Klondike Rush of 1898
October 6: "Modern Times" Chaplin satirizes the dehumanization of industrial life
October 13: "The Great Dictator" Chaplin takes on Hitler and Nazism
October 20: "A King in New York" Chaplin's last film criticizes McCarthyism
WORLD WAR ONE
In honor of 80th anniversary of Armistice Day
October 27: "Shoulder Arms" One last Chaplin flick,
an irreverent look at the trenches
November 3: "Wings" 1929, First ever Best Picture Oscar, stunning aerial photography
November 10: "Sergeant York" 1940, Gary Cooper prepares us for WW2
HOMEFRONT: WORLD WAR II
November 17: "Air Raid Wardens" Laurel & Hardy
provide Civil Defense
November 24: "Swing Shift" Goldie Hawn as Rosie the Riveter
December 1: "A League of Their Own" Geena Davis leads a women's baseball league
December 8: "1941" John Belushi guards Hollywood against a Japanese attack