Film
The Great Dictator
Sun, Aug 11, 2013
- 2PM
- 4:30PM
- 7PM
- 9:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 126 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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Sunday August 11, 2013
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2013
series Chaplin in 35mm
Directed by Charles Chaplin | 1940
With Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
“…the genius of Chaplin is measured by his profound understanding of those attributes which place the most monstrous of men within the confines of the human condition.”
—Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice
Hitler lookalike Chaplin seized on the coincidence in his first sound film, a triumphantly pro-humanist, boldly anti-Fascist, Nazi-skewering satire. In the European state of Tomainia, a nebbish Jewish barber’s striking resemblance to blustering dictator Adenoid Hynkel (Chaplin, speaking in hilariously garbled faux-German hooey) creates serious confusion. Hynkel’s über-iconic pas de deux with a balloon globe is one of Chaplin’s most elegantly athletic set pieces.