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...Chaplin Revue 6 p.m., 9:40; Modern Times 8:05, weekends...
...Camera and a Chaplin short, His Prehistoric Past, Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, shows...
...Chaplin Revue 6, 9:40; Modern Times 8:05, weekends...
...Chaplin. Central Square's program might be a bit too much Chaplin to take all at one sitting. Modern Times(1936) shows Charlie at work on an assembly line--this film is one of Chaplin's three greatest silent films. It is actually a sound movie, but Chaplin himself never talks. The dialogue and sound effects were the only compromises Chaplin was willing, at the time, to make with the new era of sound. Chaplin Revueincludes three fairly short films that predate Chaplin's first full-length comedies. A Dog's Life is the funniest, and most poignant; Shoulder Arms...
...short, none of Chaplin's intentional satire comes off. This is in part be cause of an understandable falling off in creative powers. But in larger measure, it is because he obviously wanted to ingratiate himself with and win back his audience, and was therefore careful not to push that audience too hard. Un intentionally, though, the film contains some true and poignant moments as Chaplin, the international celebrity, demonstrates his isolation and unworldliness through his fictional alter ego, and his consequent vulnerability to the prying and exploitation of the press and television. This was a subject Chaplin knew...