Of course, most of us likely won't have a movie about our lives. With that in mind, we can at least escape into stories about people who have done something remarkable enough to be movie-worthy. I've ...

Charlie Chaplin, actor, screenwriter and film producer, and the famous tramp in the film "Modern Times", lived in the Manoir de Ban in Vevey. A statue by the lake commemorates the 25 years he spent ...

Film legend Charlie Chaplin has an office in Paris. And the man in charge of the business is on a mission to keep "The Tramp's" legacy alive one contract at a time ...

Geraldine “Jerry” Manning Livermore was born at the farmhouse of her parents Gene and Isabell Manning in Garryowen, SD on September 6, 1939. She was the 5th of 7 children. Jerry had many ...

Naseeruddin Shah reflects on his conversation with Javed Akhtar about originality in films, noting influences in 'Sholay'. Akhtar argues originality lies in the execution. Shah admires directors ...

Actor-filmmaker Naseeruddin Shah says he once had a discussion about the definition of originality with Javed Akhtar when he told the screenwriter that his 1975 classic Sholay was a copy of Charlie ...

Directed by Ramesh Sippy, Sholay 'Indianised' elements of Spaghetti Westerns, popularised by Eastwood, and also Akira Kurosawa's Western-inspired samurai films.