Criterion Collection: Modern Times (1936) (Region A Blu-ray)
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- R 823
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Description
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). with it's barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times - though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!) - is a timeless showcase of Chaplin's untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 715515064712
- Department
- Movies & TV
- Released
- 16 Nov 2010
- Type
- Movies
- Format
- Blu-ray
- Genre
- Comedy
- Sub-genre
- Comedy
- Region
- Region A
- Studio
- Criterion
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Age Restriction
- NR
- Supply Source
- USA
Movie
- Title
- Modern Times
- Tagline
- He stands alone as the greatest entertainer of modern times! No one on earth can make you laugh as heartily or touch your heart as deeply...the whole world laughs, cries and thrills to his priceless genius!
- Release Year
- 1936
- Running Time
- 87 min
- Silent
- Yes
- Color
- B&W
- Categories
- Comedies / Classic / Essential Cinema / Recommended / Silent / Technology / Vintage / Dramas
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Budget
- $1.5 million
- US Box Office
- $163.0 million
- Ratings
-
- IMDb
- 8.5
- Rotten Tomatoes®
- 98% 95%
- Metacritic
- The Movie DB
- 83%
- Overview
- The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
- Synopsis
- Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to silent comedy with this funny and poignant masterpiece. Here Chaplin stars as a factory worker fed-up with the job and his tyrannical boss (who keeps an eye on all his employees via a big-brother TV monitor). When he meets and falls in love with an orphaned street waif, the two dream of a nice suburban existence...but the cops are never far behind, chasing the vagabond couple.
- Notes
- MODERN TIMES was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
Costar Henry Bergman also served as assistant director of this film.
This was Chaplin's final "silent film" (although he does sing a song consisting of some "nonsense syllables"); it was made when virtually all others had abandoned the form for sound. Because Chaplin had total financial control of his films, as well as a totally devoted audience, he could do exactly as he liked -- even if it wasn't in fashion.
- Release Notes
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Note: New, restored 2K-resolution digital transfer, created in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
- Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
- New program on the film's visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
- Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin, plus a selection from the film's original orchestral track
- Two segments cut from the film
- All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Chaplin and actress Paulette Goddard, with a new score by Donald Sosin and new interview with Cooke's daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge
- The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler
- For the First Tim (1967), a short Cuban documentary about first-time moviegoers seeing Modern Times
- Chaplin Today: "Modern Times" (2003), a program with filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
- Three theatrical trailers
- Plus: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin's writing about his 1930s world tour
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- PCM Mono - English
- Poster
- Videos
- Trailer
- Modern Times 1936 Trailer | Charlie Chaplin
- Featurette
- Peter Bogdanovich on Charlie Chaplin Film MODERN TIMES
- Cast & Crew
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Star
- Henry Bergman / Stanley Blystone / Charlie Chaplin / Chester Conklin / Allan Garcia / Paulette Goddard / Hank Mann / Tiny Sandford
- Co-Star
- Al Ernest Garcia / Richard Alexander / Cecil Reynolds
- Screenwriter
- Charlie Chaplin
- Composer
- Charlie Chaplin / Alfred Newman
- Producer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Director of Photography
- Ira Morgan / Ira H. Morgan / Roland Totheroh / Rollie Totheroh
- Editor
- Charlie Chaplin / Willard Nico
- Art Director
- Charles D. Hall / J. Russell Spencer
- Movie Critics
- A.V. Club
- "[Chaplin added] a layer of tart political commentary to sequence after sequence of inspired physical comedy." -- Grade: A— Scott Tobias (22 Dec 2010, )
- Entertainment Weekly
- "...[A] delight with its abundance of famously hilarious set pieces..."— Tim Purtell (18 Jul 2003, p.61)
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