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Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) dvd movie. Home » DVD Movies » Actors/Actresses » C » Other » Chester Conklin Other • Charles Vanel Other • Carl D Cook Other • Charles Mcgregor Other • Charles Trowbridge Other • Carl Harbord Other • Courtney Mclean Other • Catherine Rouvel Other • Carl Ciarfalio Other • Carmen Filpi Other • Constance Collier Other • Celia Lovsky Other • Cliff Gorman Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Black & White • Dolby • DVD-Video • Original recording remastered • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 05 February, 1936 DVD Release : 01 July, 2003 [ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) description Charlie 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 Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) Customer Reviews   1     2     3   ♥♥♥♥♥ Amazing. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936) I've spent the past few decades assiduously overlooking old film comedies, mostly because of my dislike for the contemporary comedy shorts (the Three Stooges, the Little Rascals, et al.). I decided earlier this year that I was going to stop doing that; after all, they can't all be that bad. One of the earliest stops on this new journey of mine was Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's 1936 extravaganza that makes it into critics' 100-best lists with almost alarming regularity. The basic idea is that Chaplin, a factory worker, and Paulette Goddard, a homeless waif, team up after Chaplin gets laid off when the factory closes (it's the Depression, remember) and try to make their way in the world. This leads both through a succession of jobs (and a rickety homestead), as well as more than one brush with the law. I know there's a great deal of social commentary to be found here; I've read more than enough articles on the film to have missed that. But my mind is a sieve, and I can't remember terribly much about those articles. What I found important, and enjoyable, about the film is that it's a wonderfully-choreographed piece, a remnant of the silent era in the age of talkies (there is very little actual speech in the film), and an excellent showcase for Chaplin's talent for physical comedy. Add to this the eye-popping beauty of Paulette Goddard, a pitch-perfect sense of pace, and an array of sets that rivals most of what gets turned out seventy years later, and you have the recipe for a truly classic film. And Modern Times surely is that. **** A   1     2     3   Non User