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Modern Times
Dir Chaplin
Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times is one of cinema’s greatest satirical comedies. Chaplin’s last silent comedy (but for industrial noises, a little narrative voiceover, and his celebrated music and a nonsense song), Modern Times includes comedic sketches and bits that Chaplin had performed in other films twenty or so years earlier, and Chaplin, the greatest male actor in films, relies on his familiar persona of Charlie the Tramp to carry his central role. (This would prove to be the last appearance in film of the medium’s most recognizable character) Modern Times is terrific.
In some ways it resembles an hilarious version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis(1927), but not one resolved in a reconciliation between labor and management. Chaplin’s comedy is about the plight of the ordinary man as he struggles to survive in a depressed economy; it is about someone who seeks to be reconciled with life. In some of its scenes the film also has about it an air of futurism; but, as they say, the future is here (as indeed Metropolis also suggested).
Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
- Year:
- 1936
- Runtime:
- 87 minutes
- Language:
- No Language
- Director:
- Charlie Chaplin
- Screenwriter:
- Charlie Chaplin
- Producer:
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cast:
- Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
- Cinematographer:
- Ira H. Morgan, Roland Totheroh, Bud Thackery
- Editor:
- Willard Nico, Charlie Chaplin
- Production Design:
- Charles D. Hall
- Composer:
- Charlie Chaplin
This page is to obtain access to the broadcast of this Sands Films Cinema Club presentation
Modern Times
Dir Chaplin
Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times is one of cinema’s greatest satirical comedies. Chaplin’s last silent comedy (but for industrial noises, a little narrative voiceover, and his celebrated music and a nonsense song), Modern Times includes comedic sketches and bits that Chaplin had performed in other films twenty or so years earlier, and Chaplin, the greatest male actor in films, relies on his familiar persona of Charlie the Tramp to carry his central role. (This would prove to be the last appearance in film of the medium’s most recognizable character) Modern Times is terrific.
In some ways it resembles an hilarious version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis(1927), but not one resolved in a reconciliation between labor and management. Chaplin’s comedy is about the plight of the ordinary man as he struggles to survive in a depressed economy; it is about someone who seeks to be reconciled with life. In some of its scenes the film also has about it an air of futurism; but, as they say, the future is here (as indeed Metropolis also suggested).
Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
- Year:
- 1936
- Runtime:
- 87 minutes
- Language:
- No Language
- Director:
- Charlie Chaplin
- Screenwriter:
- Charlie Chaplin
- Producer:
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cast:
- Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
- Cinematographer:
- Ira H. Morgan, Roland Totheroh, Bud Thackery
- Editor:
- Willard Nico, Charlie Chaplin
- Production Design:
- Charles D. Hall
- Composer:
- Charlie Chaplin