Film
Modern Times
Sat, Aug 10, 2013
- 2PM
- 4:30PM
- 7PM
- 9:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 87 minutes
RATED: NR
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $13
MEMBERS: $8
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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Saturday August 10, 2013
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2013
series Chaplin in 35mm
Directed by Charlie Chaplin | 1936
With Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley J. ('Tiny') Sandford, Chester Conklin
“…possibly [Chaplin’s] greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.”
—Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader
An imaginative and hilarious send-up of the modern industrialized world, Charlie Chaplin’s final silent film (enlivened by bits of inventive sound design) casts his classic Little Tramp character as a factory worker tightening bolts on an assembly line. When he suffers a mishap in an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, his resulting nervous breakdown lands him in a mental institution. Mixing the joyfulness of Chaplin’s comedy gags with a scathing satire of modern bureaucracy and the mechanization of society, Modern Times remains the funniest of the comedian’s social critiques.