Modern Times (Criterion Collection)

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	Charlie Chaplin	A Factory Worker
	Paulette Goddard	A Gamin
	Henry Bergman	Cafe Proprietor
	Tiny Sandford	Big Bill
	Chester Conklin	Mechanic
	Hank Mann	Burglar
	Stanley Blystone	Gamin's Father
	Al Ernest Garcia	President of the Electro Steel Corp.
	Richard Alexander	Prison Cellmate
	Cecil Reynolds	Minister
	Mira McKinney	Minister's Wife
	Murdock MacQuarrie	J. Widdecombe Billows
	Wilfred Lucas	Juvenile Officer
	Edward LeSaint	Sheriff Couler
	Fred Malatesta	Cafe Head Waiter
	Sammy Stein	Turbine Operator
	Juana Sutton	Woman with Buttoned Bosom
	Ted Oliver	Billows' Assistant
	Norman Ainsley	Billows' Silent Assistant
	Walter Bacon	Shopkeeper
	Bobby Barber	Worker
	Heinie Conklin	Assembly Line Worker Next to Big Bill
	Gloria DeHaven	Gamin's Sister
	Gloria Delson	Gamin's Sister
	Pat Flaherty	Jail Guard

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Director	Charlie Chaplin
Writer	Charlie Chaplin
Producer	Charlie Chaplin
Musician	Charlie Chaplin
Photography	Ira H. Morgan, Roland Totheroh

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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 its 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.

SPECIAL FEATURES
Restored 2K-resolution digital transfer, created in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary from 2010 by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
Two visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
Program from 2010 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 score by Donald Sosin and an interview with Cooke’s daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge
The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler
For the First Time (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
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and, for the Blu-ray edition, a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin’s writing about his 1930s world tour

New cover by Sam Smith

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