City Lights: I’m still impressed with how Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, starred, and composed the music for this film (and for many others that he made). I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as Modern times – it’s a different kind of humour though, it is not as much out and out slapstick humour as […]
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Movie: Modern Times (1936)
Modern Times: This is the first Charlie Chaplin film I can recall watching as an adult. I wasn’t sure if I should be expecting slapstick comedy – not with a movie that’s in the IMDB top 250. I was surprised. And it was excellent.Charlie Chaplin is a factory worker who has a nervous breakdown, and […]