The Star Boarder (The Landlady's Pet)
George Nichols 1914 US (1st time; DVD)
A boardinghouse tramp finds himself the focus of the others' jealousy because of his flirting with the landlady.
Exaggerated Chaplin farce, with little of worth to be found.

A Busy Day
Charles Chaplin 1914 US (1st time; DVD)
A woman is jealous of her husband's flirting; but she gets her comeuppance in the end.
Early Chaplin short in which he plays a woman. Unfunny stuff.

Caught in a Cabaret
Mabel Normand 1914 US (1st time; DVD)
A waiter rescues a woman from a thug, and, when invited to her home, pretends he is a Greek ambassador.
Odd moments here and there, though decidedly not in Chaplin's best vain.

The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway 1995 France/UK/Netherlands (1st time; VHS)
A Japanese woman, obsessed with calligraphy on, and in a way as, flesh, searches for the perfect calligraphy lover, and seeks revenge on a publisher.
A shapeless form (that is, a carefully constructed piece of Cinema) which may be proof that the medium, in its purest form, is not quite as commercially enjoyable to the masses as the populists may like to think; as a multi-textured, technically accomplished work, it is an original, demanding aesthetic treat.


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