The Brattle is currently showing the re-release of Chaplin's "Modern Times" (1936). Anyone want to see it with Brandi and I at 3:30pm on Tuesday? (tomorrow) We're thinking of heading over to the Diesel afterwards for crowd-socializing.
From the Brattle's description:
Modern Times is a corrosive satire on the dehumanizing effects of technology — the screeches, groans, and grinds of the machines have more lines than the actors (the only spoken dialogue, all superfluous, issues from the Boss’s all-seeing bigscreen tv). But, despite its pre-occupation with the Depression, poverty and starvation, Modern Times also manages to be (amazingly) the most lighthearted comedy of the director/star’s later years... Conceived as his farewell to the Tramp, Charlie remains mum — apart from a song improvised in gibberish when he loses a cuff with the words scribbled on it — in what is without question the last great silent movie. This new restoration of the Chaplin masterpiece, chosen to close this year’s Cannes Film Festival, entailed treating over 126,000 frames of film, correcting negative scratches and picture deterioration, and restoring its rich black and white cinematography.
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