DVDS
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DVDS: Feature Films
Limelight Dvd (en)
Charles Chaplin’s Limelight is a glimmering homage to what was, a proud look at bygone entertainment era and a bittersweet tale of an artist passing the torch to a new generation.
A King in New York DVD (en)
The comedy king gives American pop culture and politics the royal treatment in the satiric, penultimate Chaplin film A King in New York
Monsieur Verdoux DVD (en)
Henri Verdoux’s business requires a lot of travel. His business involves wooing wealthy spinsters, winning their confidence and bank accounts, then killing the hapless biddies before moving on to his next conquest.
Modern Times DVD (en)
Man vs. machine! And the winner is every comedy fan when Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp confronts assembly line woes in this classic, chosen in 1998 as one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films.
Great Dictator’s DVD (en)
The U.S. was not yet in World War II when Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Fuhrer by playing the dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie.
City Lights DVD (en)
City Lights begins with an uproarious skewering of pomp and formality, ends with one of the most famous last shots in movie history and, from start to finish, so completely touches the heart and tickles the funny bone that in 1998 it was named one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films.
The Circus DVD (en)
At the first Academy Award, Charles Chaplin was honoured with a first statuette “for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus”. And, it went with out saying, for again bringing laughter to packed movies across America.
The Gold Rush DVD (en)
The Gold Rush, CC famously said, is ”The film I want to be remembered by”. In 1998, leading movie critics and experts voted and remembered, choosing this 24 carat comedy as one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films.
The Kid DVD (en)
One heaves rocks through windows. The other happens by in the nick of time to offer his services as an expert window repairman. It’s a system that works.
DVDS: Shorts
Chaplin’s Essanay comedies (en)
This edition of all sixteen films in 3 DVDs of which this is the first was made from the best vintage film material gathered in a nine-year search of American and European collections…
The restored Mutual Chaplin Films on DVD (en)
A special DVD release of all the restored Mutual Chaplin films with newly composed scores by Carl Davis conducting The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Twelve films directed and written by Charlie Chaplin.
The Essanay Films DVD (BFI) (en)
In his one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company Chaplin had full control over casting, scripting and directing.
The Essanay & Mutual comedies by ARTE (en)
Released by ARTE in the Collection Cinéma Muet – Only available in France
DVDS: Documentaries
Unknown Chaplin (en)
Featuring never before seen out-takes from Chaplin’s films, and other rare footage
Documentary: The Forgotten Years (en)
When Charles Chaplin was forced to leave the USA in 1952, he found harbor in Switzerland and settled in a small village on Lake Geneva where he lived with his family until the end of his life in 1977. In his autobiography, written from his new home, he calls these the happiest years.
