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...haven't heard before, but nicely written.
4) 'The Great Movies.' By Roger Ebert
Has an essay on 'City Lights.' Some of you may have already read this piece. You can find it online at:
http://www...
...a post in alt.movies.silent:
The Chaplin Estate has denied the Alamo Drafthouse permission to show CITY LIGHTS with a different score than the original one.
The URL for the controversy:...
Hello everybody,
I've got to tell you I just saw this DVD with the Carl Davis soundtrack and I thought it was fantastic. It was really a thrill to see on my new big-screen TV with the new score blas
Found this on alt.movies.silent:
Yah! Who wants ta watch all dose stinkin' silent moovies? All dat readin' hurts ma eyezzzz....
Leslie (who can't help but think that Leonard Maltin was right...)
...s. If your from the Boston area and close to the Peabody, MA Borders Books store, I saw the box set (City Lights, Modern Times, Great Dictator, and Gold Rush) for $49.99. I also saw Gold Rush, First N...
...haplin was one of my father's heroes, and the pictures sparked his memory: being so knocked out by ''City Lights'' on its opening day that he sat through the next two showings; chasing down the street...
...e stage, he is shown berating an assistant director who failed to complete a scene on time.
It also highlights his obsessive side. Crowds of extras are forced to stand=
idle while he repeatedly pr...
... longer commercially practicable.
The idea that the Chaplin estate needs to squeeze dollars out of CITY LIGHTS is laughable. The bulk of the estate is surely invested in solid securities, which is t...
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http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washf...
Some excerpts...
'City Lights,' Charlie Chaplin's last and perhaps best film, is another example of how the NGO is br...
...s works so well (and I need to admit that although I will occasionally get teary-eyed from a movie, 'City Lights' actually made me cry). I think part of the effect is the ambiguity of the ending. We p...
...ears as his film career flourished.
He was a box office draw with movies such as 'The Gold Rush,' 'City Lights' and 'The Kid,' but the American public was less enamored with his lifestyle.
By 1956...
... Out of 1397 voters, 61 people gave 'Modern Times' a one rating. Out of 893 voters, 22 of them gave 'City Lights' a one rating.
I can understand if people don't care for silent movies, but how could...
...r that. Come to think of it, even Chaplin used sound effects of hitting a piano in the silent movie, CITY LIGHTS.
Anyway, I don't want to review how funny the film was to me because then I'd have to...
...s Life, With You Dear, In Bombay, Introduction and Terry's Theme from Limelight, Love Interlude from City Lights, Hurry Theme from City Lights, Fanfare: Unveiling the Statue from City Lights, Smile: E...
...m his more than 80 films are shown. Those films include The Gold Rush, A Woman of Paris, The Circus, City Lights, The Great Dictator and Limelight. Interviews offer revealing insights and opinions fro...
What a beautiful story 'City Lights' is. It's wonderfully acted and the story is timeless.
Charlie Chaplin made his greatest film when he set out to make one of the last films that would be silent.
Just watched the boxing scene from City Lights and noticed Chaplin has no chest hair visible. Did he shave for the movie?
...sed stages judging from construction photos in 'My Life in Pictures' and the fact that you can see studio lights reflecting on Charlie's bedroom set. But at the same time you can see wind blowing acro...
... the Madacy videotapes (that music sounds awfully familiar by now...).
Still, there are a couple of highlights that make this set worth it. Volume 7 includes'Recreation,' which is a hard short to fi...
...i all I am a big fan of Charlie Chaplin. I didn't get the grade I wanted in college 'cause I watched City Lights the morning of the Exam, I just couldn't get him outta my head. Not that he's to blame....
...Robinson claims?
6)I feel strongly that the bum from whom Charlie takes the cigar on the street in City Lights is John Rand? What do you think?
7)The IMDB lists San Francisco as a location for Cit...
Can someone help me? I have the Davis soundtrack to City Lights, but isn't there another CD he did of Chaplin's music? I don't know the name of it, or what's on it. I bought a CD recently of Chaplin m
...eries of ancient shorts on N.Y. teevee station WPIX. He also claims to have caused discontinuance of CITY LIGHTS runs in two N.J. theatres and the cancellation of the film in two other spots. Fehrenba...
I guess I was trying to make a remake of my own with 'Modern Lights'
Julie 'hoping first impressions are not lasting'
Birth of a Home Business 'The journey of starting a home business'
He was the co-cinematographer of CITY LIGHTS, which was his last film according to the Internet Movie Database:
Cinematographer filmography (1930s) (1920s)
City Lights (1931) Queen Kelly (1929) He
In CITY LIGHTS, Chaplin prepared a scene with a little piece of wood stuck in a grate. The scene has been seen in UNKNOWN CHAPLIN. It is a self-contained sequence that Chaplin decided to edit out befo
Probably since unlike the other sound effects this one orrurs in a scene
with background music going on all the time?
But would you hire a voice imitator to mimic Caruso then?
... but I've been toying with the idea of have a Chaplin themed New Year's Eve party. I'll show either _City Lights_ or _The Gold Rush_. Have any of you given such a party? What ideas can you toss my way...
... help...i have to watch at some chaplin's movies for an examination about 'cinema history', such as 'city lights', 'the kid', 'the circus' and 'easy street'...but i couldn't find them in any shop or w...
...in the White House with a culturally astute First Lady.
And along with Pablo Casals, and other cultural lights, Chaplin would have found himself feted at the White House....
...ut here's what's on when, briefly.
Thur 24 Dec 6.10am BBC2 - Modern Times Sat 26 Dec 6.05am BBC2 - City Lights Tue 29 Dec 6.15am BBC2 - A Woman of Paris (not on video in UK) Wed Dec 30 6.35am BBC2 -...
And 'Bravo!' to you for your contribution to the new spirit of a.m.c.
...the TIME 100 article about Chaplin, Ann Douglas includes The Circus with The Kid, The Gold Rush, and City Lights as his silent masterpieces....
I'm looking for someone who might know where I can get a vhs copy of C. Chaplin's 'City Lights'.
... fact RESISTED input from the public.
I might cite as the Point of Turnaround to be at the time of CITY LIGHTS. Surprised?
It was CITY LIGHTS where Charlie bucked the entire system (his Hollywood ...
Is your balloon photo from Southern California?
... showing up.
If Chaplin were making movies today the clamor for sequels to THE KID, THE GOLD RUSH, CITY LIGHTS, and MODERN TIMES would be terrific. I prefer to stew over what happens to Charlie and ...
Virginia's mother in CITY LIGHTS either had the world's dullest bread knife or she was cutting the toughest loaf of bread in the world. Perhaps it was a leftover loaf from DOUGH AND DYNAMITE, I don't
You are possibly referring to the changing position of Chaplin's hands as those two powerful close-up are intercut? This gets into an issue which has many ramifications beyond the purely technical and
...veryone read Alexander Woolcott's essays on Chaplin's THE PILGRIM (in the book Enchanted Aisles) and CITY LIGHTS (in When Rome Burns) ?? If not, I recommend seeking them out as they are well-written a...
I wonder if he would include 'The Chaplin Revue' in that category.
You're right
...pressing our favorites. If you want to see what fighting is all about, check out two past threads on CITY LIGHTS MUSIC & JOAN COLLINS....
...r than the Glenn Ford _Cimarron_ and the Tom Cruise _Far and Away_, but ... *this* was better than _City Lights_?! Oh, I forgot, CL wasn't even nominated so it's not as if _Cimarron_ actually beat ou...
...the theatrical entourage leaves. Chaplin is sitting in a corner and we have a close-up of his face as the lights are put out one by one leaving him in the darkness. How powerfully he conveys the messa...
...mber several scenes from his films where he was either immersed in water or was doused in some way (_City Lights_ come to mind for both of these). Knowing Chaplin's habit of doing take after take afte...
Stealing the Clown's Clothes http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/17/02a_laurel1.html Chaplin's most famous 'creation' was his little tramp
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