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Nov 28, 2013 · City Lights delivers one of the stronger video transfers of the Chaplin films Criterion has released so far. Source materials are unsurprisingly its only limiting factor; it has been beautifully restored but the image is still faintly laced with minor scratches, bits of debris, stains, and pulsating, but the digital presentation itself is just ...
Mar 26, 2017 · The first is a quick 5-minute one from 1968, filmed on the set of Larf. He shares his thoughts on London and talks about the effect Blow-Up has had on his career. The second interview is 20-minutes of footage from a 1977 episode of the Canadian show City Lights, hosted by Brian Linehan.
Dec 10, 2016 · In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble—including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden ...
Nov 15, 2020 · Criterion next digs up a significant amount of archival material, starting off with excerpts from an interview with director Norman Jewison for the Canadian television program City Lights.
Feb 15, 2016 · We get demonstrations with scenes from The Kid, City Lights, short films, and even Keaton’s own Cops and Lloyd’s “jig” from The Freshman, showing how the scene plays out at projection speed and then how the play out at what was probably the filming speed.
Nov 10, 2022 · <p>A high-water mark of digital animation, this prescient vision of a dystopian future is packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, making for an urgent fable for our troubled millennium. It’s the twenty-ninth century, and humans have long since fled Earth for outer space, leaving WALL•E, the last functioning trash-compacting robot, to go about the work of cleaning up a ...
Nov 25, 2010 · <I>Modern Times</I>, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, <I>Modern Times</I>—though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing ...
Jun 10, 2012 · It runs about 19-minutes. Finally we get a 25-minute interview with composer Timothy Brock about the music by Charles Chaplin. Brock talks about Chaplin’s musical background and gives a history of the scores Chaplin would do for his own films, starting with City Lights.
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So the existing prints of these films are cropped on the top and bottom? City Lights we know from dvdbeaver's comparison does exist in a 1.19 print and the Image DVD retains this aspect ratio.
Jun 12, 2023 · Black levels and shadow details are also quite strong, with the darkened Vegas scenes probably providing the real stand-outs, the wider contrast aiding in rendering the city’s bright lights.
