DVD : City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790771656
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790771659
Label: United Artists
Manufacturer: United Artists
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: United Artists
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 02, 2004
Running Time: 186 minutes
Sales Rank: 7996
Studio: United Artists
Theatrical Release Date: February 06, 1931
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Talkies were well entrenched when Charles Chaplin swam against the filmmaking tide with this forever classic that's silent except for music and sound effects. The story, involving the Tramp's attempts to get money for an operation that will restore sight to a blind flower girl, provides the star with an ideal framework for sentiment and laughs. The Tramp is variously a street sweeper, a boxer, a rich poseur, and a rescuer of a suicidal millionaire. His message is unspoken, but universally understood: love is blind
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City Lights is a film to pick for the time capsule, a film that best represents the many aspects of director-writer-star Charlie Chaplin at the peak of his powers: Chaplin the actor, the sentimentalist, the knockabout clown, the ballet dancer, the athlete, the lover, the tragedian, the fool. It's all contained in Chaplin's simple story of a tramp who falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). Chaplin elevates the Victorian contrivances of the plot to something glorious with his inventive use of pantomime and his sure grasp of how the Tramp relates to the audience. In 1931, it was a gamble for Chaplin to stick with silence after talking pictures had killed off the art form that had made him famous, but audiences flocked to City Lights anyway. (Chaplin would not make his first full talking picture until 1940's The Great Dictator.) After all the superb comic sequences, the film culminates with one of the most moving scenes in the history of cinema, a luminous and heartbreaking fade-out that lifts the picture onto another plane. (Woody Allen paid homage to the scene at the end of Manhattan.) This is why the term "Chaplinesque" became a part of the language. --Robert Horton
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City Lights is regarded by many as Chaplin's best film. It is a serio-comedy that will make you laugh and make you cry.
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Recently I had the privilege of catching part of a Charlie Chaplin marathon on TCM and I have to say that I am blown away with the man's genius. I've desperately wanted to get my hands on Chaplin's work since watching `Chaplin' starring Robert Downey Jr. but I've not had the opportunity or the time to really sit down and give him his due time. Thankfully I had the time to watch a few of his films last month, among them was `City Lights', the film for which Chaplin's title of genius is hinged on. Many regard this film as his finest film, and many even consider it one of the greatest films of all time. Now, I must admit that I personally adored `The Kid' and consider that the better of the two, but there is no denying that both films are leagues ahead of most films churned out by Hollywood these days.
The film follows Chaplin's character of the Tramp as he meets and falls in love with a blind flower girl. Upon meeting her he is moved to try and raise enough money to pay for her to have a surgery on her eyes to restore her sight. The film follows his pursuit of this money, from meeting and swaying an eccentric millionaire as well as trying his hand at a few rounds of prizefighting with an overzealous stranger.
In the end the story is a story of love, and Chaplin marvelously displays this to the audience. Charlie Chaplin proves without sound or color that there is so much more to an actor than the convenience of modern technology. The fact that ... Read More
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City Lights directed by Charlie Chaplin and also stars in is such a cute and timeless silent film classic. In College, I took a film class and our professor said to watch one silent film so I chose City Lights not knowing what to expect. To my utter delight, I fell head over heels in love with this film, the music, pace, and physical comedy is 100% charming. Charlie Chaplin will captivate your heart, I highly recommend it! Enjoy.
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City Lights, as well as all Chaplin masterpeices, is shear genius. For any human being who ever dreamed of writing and directing a film, whether personal or intended for a large audience, City Lights is the text book to consult. Watch Chaplin's moves, gestures, facial expressions with special emphasis on his eye brows, and it wont be hard to discover the secret of great storytelling. The secret is not dialogue but action. In these times of action adventure and special effects, it is refressing to see action in its purest sense. It is worth mentioning that City Lights has the best ending ever filmed in the history of the film. These timeless Chaplin classics are the structural foundation of the art of film.
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I had never seen a Chaplin film in full, nor ever heard of "City Lights", however I had seen the bio-pic "Chaplin" with Robert Downey Jr., and was aware that Chaplin was considered a genius. so one morning when I stumbled across "City Lights" while channel surfing, I was very interested to watch the film and finally get to see some of Chaplin's work.
I found myself enjoying the movie much more than I anticipated, I got very absorbed in the story, and found myself actually laughing out loud. I could indeed see that this man was special.
As the film was coming to an end, I got closer to the television, and tears poured down my face. I cannot remember being so completely moved by a single scene in any film ever.
It really took a few minutes for me to come back to reality.
As soon as the film ended, I sat at the computer, and found out that City Lights is considered Chaplin's masterpiece - and that many people were as moved by the last scene as I was.
I consider myself very lucky to have chanced upon this movie, and am anxious to see more of his work. (and learn a bit more about him as well)
I hope to share this movie with more people, as I'm sure that there are many people of my generation who are as ignorant to this movie (and Chaplin) as I was (am).
This movie has moved to my top ten list - and the last scene - well, for me - it was the single most profound moment in film that I have ever seen.
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starring: Jack Alexander (III), Henry Bergman, Betty Blair, Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill
directed by: Charles Chaplin
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790771656
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790771659
Label: United Artists
Manufacturer: United Artists
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: United Artists
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 02, 2004
Running Time: 186 minutes
Sales Rank: 7996
Studio: United Artists
Theatrical Release Date: February 06, 1931
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