Die Große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner)
Werner Herzog 1974 West Germany (2nd time)
A carpenter whose true love in life is ski-jumping sets world records and becomes a phenomenon.
The said phenomenom is not least in the director's eyes, or even in Steiner's own psychology; a beautiful evocation of a man wanting to, like the director, push as many of his own boundaries as he can.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Werner Herzog 1976 West Germany (2nd time)
Cattle auctioneers gather in a small Amish town for the World Championships.
An oft-funny and insightful documentary with profound implications as to the spoken language and film language--here we have English-speaking competitors being translated in German voice-over by Herzog himself, and that in turn is translated back into English subtitles.

A King in New York
Charles Chaplin 1957 UK (1st time)
Escaping a revolution, a European monarch flees to America, struggles to adapt to the country's values, and gets caught up in the Communist witchhunt.
More of a damning social comment than the comedy it claims to be; Chaplin's charm is overrided far too often by sentimentality, and, given the autobiographical synopsis, this surprisingly runs out of energy well before the end.

Twenty Minutes of Love
Charles Chaplin 1914 US (1st time)
A mischievous tramp tries to win the affections of a girl on a parkbench. Then her boyfriend returns…
The editing here shows Chaplin's brilliance as a visual storyteller; otherwise, it is a routine affair.

The Fatal Mallet
Mack Sennett 1914 US (1st time)
Two rivals over a girl end up joining forces when a third suitor comes on the scene.
Unfunny Chaplin short, which ends, for once, with the Tramp getting his comeuppance.