Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Chester Conklin, Gloria DeHaven, Henry Bergman, Richard Alexander, Stanley BlystoneBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Henry Bergman
Primary Contributor: Paulette Goddard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
Not sure why I'd bother to write a review of a movie made in 1936 but I recently viewed the DVD and was just blown away by what a complete film this is on so many levels. Chaplin's genius is on full display throughout. An amazing crossroads moment as Chaplin maintains the silent film aesthetic with some concessions to the new "talkies" technology.
The story succeeds as a social satire, as a love story and as a comedy all in one. No mean feat. Chaplin's costar and "wife" Paulette Goddard is stunning and he frames every scene she is in with a close up that shows her face to be one that the camera loves. Chaplin sings a nonsensical song in French which is a classic scene and there are many others.
If you have any hesitation about watching older silent movies this is a great place to start because despite the age of this film there is enough here to delight any movie lover.
Summary of Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/01/2003 Rating: NrCharlie Chaplin is in glorious form in this legendary satire of the mechanized world. As a factory worker driven bonkers by the soulless momentum of work, Chaplin executes a series of slapstick routines around machines, including a memorable encounter with an automatic feeding apparatus. The pantomime is triumphant, but Chaplin also draws a lively relationship between the Tramp and a street gamine. She's played by Paulette Goddard, then Chaplin's wife and probably his best leading lady (here and in The Great Dictator). The film's theme gave the increasingly ambitious writer-director a chance to speak out about social issues, as well as indulging in the bittersweet quality of pathos that critics were already calling "Chaplinesque." In 1936, Chaplin was still holding out against spoken dialogue in films, but he did use a synchronized soundtrack of sound effects and his own music, a score that includes one of his most famous melodies, "Smile." And late in the film, Chaplin actually does speak--albeit in a garbled gibberish song, a rebuke to modern times in talking pictures. --Robert Horton
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