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	ToxicUniverse.com - Charles Chaplin - 1936 - Modern Times Movies Review
		Another way to look at Modern Times is in context with the conflict that Chaplin was having with the changing technology of film.
		I used to show Modern Times to my high school students, many of whom had never ever seen a silent film or a black and white film for that matter.
		Modern Times is his greatest achievement, though some may argue that City Lights would occupy that spot.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10000968 (817 words)

	ALBERT KAHN ARCHITECT OF MODERN TIMES
		Partly unknown archival stock film footage from various US and Soviet film archives, from as early as 1902 up to 1945, and contemporary music, mostly of the American composer Charles Ives, shape a sensitive portrait of the beginning of this century's modern age.
		In this documentary for the first time special lenses were used to film architecture in motion picture film.
		It was made possible through a German federal film award grant for director Dieter Marcello's first film AMERICAN BEAUTY LTD. and with the support of the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Department of Art.
	wwnet.com /~lboileau/kahn (277 words)

	DVD Review - Modern Times
		As a result, there is a misconception that "Modern Times" is a silent film and, as such, would hardly be considered a film utilizing the full capabilities of the medium at the time of its making.
		I’m willing to bet that "Modern Times," Chaplin’s 1936 cautionary comedy warning against the encroachment of arrogant technology on an unsuspecting humanity, inspired the later achievements of an stellar list of filmmakers who taxed the limits of their film technology to tell a story with an anti-technology message.
		"Modern Times" IS a sound film, just not a "talkie." It has a music track synched to the action, sound effects and spoken dialogue, though sparsely so.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/modern_times.shtml (1365 words)

	Modern Times (1936)
		Of the three Charlie Chaplin movies found in the American Film Institute’s “Top 100”, 1936’s Modern Times was the final entry; the other two - 1925’s The Gold Rush and 1931’s City Lights - came earlier in his career.
		Modern Times appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.37:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Modern Times was Chaplin’s examination of contemporary society.
	www.dvdmg.com /moderntimes.shtml (1525 words)

	Modern Times
		He handled many of the sound effects for Modern Times personally; the stomach-rumbling sounds made by the hungry job-seeker in the film were created by Chaplin blowing bubbles in a pail of water.
		Five days after the premiere of Modern Times, Chaplin—with his protege Goddard and her mother—sailed for Honolulu and a well-deserved vacation on the SS Coolidge, aboard which he met poet-painter-filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
		Although he retained much of his silent style—and all of his talent—when he created his later films, the master of mime was finally forced to adapt to modern times.
	course1.winona.edu /pjohnson/h140/modern.htm (2368 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Modern Times
		The film's theme is spelled out in the foreword that runs after the opening credits: "'Modern Times.' A story of industry, of individual enterprise--humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness." The film then opens with an overhead shot of a flock of sheep rushing through a chute.
		Modern Times was promoted by the studio as Chaplin's first sound film, but that is something of a misnomer.
		It provided modern film with some of its most iconic images and a song, "Smile," that became an instant pop standard.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100821 (498 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) (1936)
		Modern Times is the last silent film that Charles Chaplin created in a time when talking was common on the silver screen.
		"Chaplin Today" features guests Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, the French filmmakers behind the film Rosetta, and though their film-historian banter is not entirely to my taste, they do bring up some insights that I hadn't observed about Modern Times.
		"Modern Times" is a timeless, laugh-out-loud, very intelligent and insightful little picture about modern life, the plight of the assembly line worker and the "pick them up by their bootstraps" mentality that has been attributed to the growth--and sometimes downfall--of modern day American society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000096IBI?v=glance (2075 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Modern Times
		Modern Times is a film born of anger and despair.
		Overlooking the subtleties of Modern Times, the Nazis denounced the film - always a good sign - and it was banned in Germany where the burgeoning fascist movement accused it of promoting communism.
		Chaplin not only starred in Modern Times, but directed, produced, wrote and provided the score for the movie.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/modern-times.shtml (391 words)

	Chaplin Essay #5
		Modern Times, for whatever it's worth, was seen as more political a film than Chaplin's previous efforts; quite frankly, its indictment of a segment of society made it that way.
		Thus in Modern Times, a largely silent film Chaplin released as late as 1936, Charlie and his female counterpart, the Gamine, are "the only two live spirits in a world of automatons," as "spiritual escapees from a world in which [Chaplin] saw no other hope" (Robinson 1985: 459).
		The film's workers are likened to sheep in the opening shot, and in one of the most famous sequences, Charlie himself is caught in the cogs of a vicious machine and, later, feeds a meal to a poor devil caught, perhaps forever, deep in the bowels of another metal monster.
	wso.williams.edu /~dgerstei/chaplin/machines.html (1165 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Modern Times (1936)
		And happily, unlike The Gold Rush, which was ruined by awful sound choices, the Modern Times DVD offers a clean transfer of the film with all the beloved original elements intact as far as I could see and hear, plus a host of extras.
		It helps that Modern Times is one of Chaplin's best films, period, running a close second behind City Lights (I hope that's next on the re-release list).
		Charlie Chaplin's outstanding 1936 flick "Modern Times" clearly demonstrates that he was one of the most significant creators of physical comedy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630577241X?v=glance (1165 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: MODERN TIMES review
		MODERN TIMES puts The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) in the middle of the Depression, a state that encompassed the world when this film was released.
		A 17-minute interview with David Raksin, music arranger on MODERN TIMES, goes a long way toward informing the viewer about Chaplin's relationship with the film as the composer of the music.
		If you have never seen a Chaplin film, then I would recommend this one as your first Chaplin viewing experience.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/moderntimes.htm (863 words)

	Modern Times
		I saw this restored version at Austin’s Dobie Theater, and it was one of the most enjoyable experiences I have had with a classic film.
		continues Kino’s dedication to providing access to some of the all time great moments in film history.
		More regarding the restoration process, and show dates for this film can be found
	homepage.mac.com /keyser72/iblog/B1146775878/C665037993/E932027208 (436 words)

	Modern Times (1936)
		A silent film consciously made for the sound era, Modern Times is a comic masterpiece that remains approachable today even for movie lovers raised on computer imaging and surround sound.
		Silent films were already old-fashioned and out of vogue in 1936 when Charlie Chaplin completed his last silent feature film, Modern Times, almost ten years after the sound revolution began with The Jazz Singer.
		Modern Times ends on a note that is both true to this heritage and also softens it.
	www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1671 (1498 words)

	Modern Times (1936)
		The foreword explains the film's theme: "'Modern Times.' A story of industry, of individual enterprise - humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness." The film opens with an overhead shot of a flock of sheep jostling in their sheep pen, and rushing through a chute.
		In Modern Times (1936), the still-silent Tramp, with his familiar small Derby hat, mustache, large boots, baggy pants, tight jacket and cane makes his last screen appearance.
		Filmed between 1932 and 1936, it was directed, written, scored, and produced by Chaplin himself - and he also starred in his own 'one-man show' with his current wife and kindred spirit Paulette Goddard.
	www.filmsite.org /mode.html (1408 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]
		At the same time, MODERN TIMES stands as one of Chaplin's most perfectly balanced mixtures of humor and pathos.
		Chaplin would continue to delight audiences with his later movies, but all of them featured recorded dialogue--after this one, the master of mime was forced to adapt to modern times.
		As with most Chaplin, MODERN TIMES proceeds as a loosely linked series of comic and/or melodramatic setpieces.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=7386 (262 words)

	Modern Times
		When we first see the Tramp in his last film, 1936's Modern Times, he is, so to speak, "one of the millions:" he is not wearing his Tramp clothes.
		Modern Times is a Chaplin film with talking.
		In Modern Times he is one of the millions coping with poverty, unemployment, strikes and strikebreakers, and the tyranny of the machine (Robinson 458-9).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/FILM/chaplin/meth9.html (1506 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times [1936]
		Along similar but more entertaining lines is Symphony in F a 1940 colour film combining music, manufacturing footage and animation celebrating the Ford motor company, while also included is a sequence from the Liberace Show (1956) with the star performing the vocal version of "Smile", the theme from Modern Times.
		Modern Times' most famous sequences portray the dehumanisation of factory labour to fine comic effect, balancing satire with slapstick to perfection in several superbly executed set-pieces.
		On the DVD: Modern Times is offered in the original 4:3 black and white with good mono sound evidencing just a little distortion and a very clean, clear picture with minimal grain to give away its age.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AISJQ (764 words)

	Modern Times
		Modern Times, one of the very first and most deserving inductees into the National Film Registry, belongs in lots of pantheons.
		The arrival of synchronized dialogue and fully integrated film sound with 1927’s The Jazz Singer spelled a certain end to Chaplin’s archetypal “Tramp” character, and yet he still managed to create two of the Tramp’s most enduringly popular incarnations, 1931’s City Lights and Modern Times, after even Garbo had started talking.
		You can’t separate what’s crazy about Modern Times from what is well-reasoned, what’s soft-hearted from what is sad and scared, what is improvised from what is meticulously planned, what is big from what is small.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /modtimes.html (1505 words)

	Nasdaq MarketSite Event - The Modern Times Group - 03/15/2002
		The Modern Times Group ( MTGNY) is a leading vertically integrated media group with content, distribution, sales, and service related businesses.
		The Nasdaq Stock Market proudly welcomes Modern Times Group MTG AB and commends them on their innovation in the media sector.
		It is also the largest home-shopping and e-commerce logistics business in Europe, has a 60% share of the Hollywood DVD feature-film subtitling market alone, and owns TV and film production companies which develop and sell formats to networks around the world.
	www.nasdaq.com /reference/market_open_031502.stm (1505 words)

	Charles Chaplin THE GREAT DICTATOR MODERN TIMES LIMELIGHT THE GOLD RUSH
		The films look much sharper, better defined and even striking at (Modern) times - it is really good to see these gems as the were intended.
		In this realm the adjustments are being made (Modern Times at 87 minutes duration was covered with 126,000 cleaned up frames - to give you a comparison: the usual average clean-up rate is mostly about 35,000).
		Below - taking care of his co-worker in Modern Times.
	www.dvdscan.com /chaplin.htm (1583 words)

	Bordwell: Curriculum Vitae
		"Modernism, Minimalism, Melancholy: Angelopoulos and Visual Style." The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos, ed.
		"Film: Time in Motion." Weekly public lecture series at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 5 January - 2 March 1981, as a part of the Center's "Meanings of Modernism" program.
		"Toto le Moderne: Narration dans le cin�ma europ�en d'apr�s 1970." La Revue belge du cin�ma no. 36-37 (April 1994): 33-39.
	www.davidbordwell.net /cv.htm (1583 words)

	The DVD Journal Reviews : Modern Times: The Chaplin Collection
		Modern Times was the final film to star the Tramp, and the difference between this Tramp and his formative years in the classic shorts (1914-1923) is worth noting.
		Modern Times is packed front to back with sound effects, voices issuing from machines, and Chaplin's own musical score (which made his song "Smile" a standard for generations).
		Modern Times literalizes common fears that those workers lucky enough to have jobs were dehumanized by mechanization and by a corporate mindset that valued productivity over basic humanity.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/m/moderntimes.shtml (4115 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Modern Times at Epinions.com
		"Modern Times" is Charlie Chaplin's last silent film.
		"Modern Times" begins with the Tramp working in a factory.
		Additional information on Modern Times or other products.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-7978-7C842FC-37E9B0EA-prod1 (312 words)

	Magill's Survey of Cinema: MODERN TIMES@ HighBeam Research
		Summary: MODERN TIMES is one of Charles Chaplin's most significant landmark films.
		Chaplin's voice was heard for the first time in the film as he performs a song while working as a singing waiter.
		Abstract: Charles Chaplin's masterpiece features the comedian's beloved Tramp confronting the hardships of the Depression and modern industrial technology.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:42599182&refid=ip_almanac_hf (169 words)

	Modern Times
		He had built up a world- wide audience thanks to a universal language of pantomime; and in his first sound films, City Lights and Modern Times he continued to make silent films, using the new medium only to provide synchronized musical accompaniments.
		The coming of talking pictures was a greater problem for Chaplin than for other silent film stars.
		When finally he embarked on dialogue films, with The Great Dictator (1940) he showed that he could use sound and speech with perfect skill.
	www.kino.com /moderntimes/modt_dir.html (518 words)

	Times Square Alliance - About Us - Events - Crossroads of Desire
		Times Square also came to symbolize the worst in urban decline in the 1960s and 1970s, even as now it has come to symbolize the rebirth of urban America.
		Times Square and its salesmen, dancers, actors, workers, and investors have profitably delivered what Americans desired, or would soon desire, for the past century.
		Many of these "inventions" are familiar to all of us - modern theater as well as musicals, vaudeville, and burlesque; the big movie openings, the annual descent of the famous New Year's Eve ball, neon and electronic advertising signs.
	www.timessquarenyc.org /about_us/events_desire.html (1463 words)

	Modern Times
		Modern Times is a 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin in which his Little Tramp character struggles to survive in an industrialized world.
		Modern Times was one of the last silent films made, although it did include sound effects, music, singers, and voices coming from radios and loudspeakers.
		He does not realise that behind him a group of protest marchers has come around a corner; the police arrest him as their leader, believing the flag to be a communist banner.
	www.informationquickfind.com /m/mo/modern_times.html (1463 words)

	Modern Times (1936)
		Chaplin's "Modern Times" has influenced the 20th century as much as any other film could have.
		But Chaplin hit it right first, insuring generations would have the chance to relate to the challenges of their own modern times.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Modern Times (1936)
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0027977 (377 words)

	Amazon.com: Vichy France: Books: Robert O. Paxton
		Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity (Modern War Studies) by Alexander B. Rossino
		For those who are interested in this subject I recommend Chabrol's video "Eye of Vichy" which is an amazingly brave film of Vichy propaganda that put pictures to the words of Paxton's book.
		The fact that France is a member of the security counsel of the United Nations results from the fact that the Free French supplied the biggest contingent of men after the launching of Torch [landing in north Africa) and stayed alongside their American allies in the Japanese war.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231124694?v=glance (1963 words)

	Vade.doc
		Subtractive dyes used in modern colour films are not able to produce the high saturations achieved by the additive red, green and blue primaries of the screen and mosaic processes of Dufay and lenticular Kodacolor, for example.
		An Academy frame of Technicolor is markedly less sharp than any modern film, and it is said that a resolution of about 1500 pixels per line "is quite adequate".
		Operators and manufacturers of this equipment are unprepared to give prices for an extended archive service · partly because the archives are unable to provide an achievable brief, · but also because the lengths of film for restoration are many times longer than any other job and they do not have the capacity.
	www2.iperbole.bologna.it /faol/Vade.doc (2114 words)

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