Loitering Without Intent: Music by Carl Davis to Chaplin's Mutuals

28 Jul 2015

LOITERING WITHOUT INTENT
Music composed and conducted by Carl Davis for Chaplin’s Mutual Films, 1916-1917
with The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and The Wihan Quartet

In 2003 and 2004 the British Film Institute released in two volumes, Charlie Chaplin’s twelve comedy shorts, created by him for the Mutual Film Corporation in 1916 and 1917. This CD is Carl Davis’s choice of music, composed by him for Charlie’s Mutuals as they came to be known as, after the company that produced them.

New UK Releases

27 Jul 2015

The new UK distributors of our films, Curzon / Artificial Eye, will be releasing new DVDs/Blu-rays of our films:

10th August 2015: The Kid, The Gold Rush, The Circus

24th August 2015: City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux

28th September 2015: A Woman of Paris, Limelight, A King in New York, The Chaplin Revue

Also, keep an eye out for the films in Curzon and non-Curzon venues in the UK! The newly refurbished Curzon Bloomsbury cinema in London has programmed the following Chaplin line-up:

Sunday 9th August
The Kid & The Gold Rush

Sunday 16th August
City Lights & Modern Times

Saturday 22nd August
The Great Dictator

Sunday 23rd August
Limelight

New Release of Limelight by Criterion

19 May 2015

The Criterion Collection release of Limelight is now available!
DVD: http://amzn.to/1He1MQA
Blu-ray: http://amzn.to/1FwfFyz

Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina (Claire Bloom) who lives downstairs. An elegant mix of the comic and the tragic, this poignant film also features Buster Keaton in an extended cameo, marking the only time the two silent comedy icons appeared together on-screen. Made at a time when Chaplin was under attack by the American press and far right, Limelight was barely distributed in the United States upon its initial release, but it is now considered one of his essential and most personal works.

Disc Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Chaplin’s “Limelight”: Its Evolution and Intimacy, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
- New interviews with actors Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd
- Chaplin Today: “Limelight,” a 2002 documentary on the film, featuring director Bernardo Bertolucci and actors Bloom and Sydney Chaplin
- Outtake from the film
- Archival audio recording of Charlie Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights
- Two short films by Chaplin: A Night in the Show (1915) and the never completed The Professor (1919) Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by critic Peter von Bagh

Criterion to release "Limelight"

22 Feb 2015

Criterion will release Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight on May 19th. Pre-order today!

Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina (Claire Bloom) who lives downstairs. An elegant mix of the comic and the tragic, this poignant film also features Buster Keaton in an extended cameo, marking the only time the two silent comedy icons appeared together on-screen. Made at a time when Chaplin was under attack by the American press and far right, Limelight was barely distributed in the United States upon its initial release, but it is now considered one of his essential and most personal works.

Disc Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Chaplin’s “Limelight”: Its Evolution and Intimacy, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
- New interviews with actors Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd
- Chaplin Today: “Limelight,” a 2002 documentary on the film, featuring director Bernardo Bertolucci and actors Bloom and Sydney Chaplin
- Outtake from the film
- Archival audio recording of Charlie Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights
- Two short films by Chaplin: A Night in the Show (1915) and the never completed The Professor (1919) Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by critic Peter von Bagh

New DVD Releases in French for Chaplin Lovers

26 Nov 2014

Two new French DVD releases for Chaplin lovers :

UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (CHAPLIN INCONNU) Unknown Chaplin is an acclaimed three-part 1983 British documentary series about the career and methods of the silent film luminary Charles Chaplin, using previously unseen film for illustration.The film was directed and written by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill.

2 DVD BOX SET + BOOKLET
SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR THE RELEASE 15€ instead of 20€ !
Available on http://shop-lobsterfilms.com/CHAPLIN-INCONNU-2DVD

CHAPLIN - THE ESSANAY COMEDIES 1915 (*CHAPLIN CHEZ ESSANAY - 1915 *) After CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE and CHAPLIN’S MUTUAL COMEDIES, Lobster Films and ARTE Editions are releasing beautiful restorations of Chaplin’s Essanay comedies. Under the aegis of Association Chaplin, the films were restored by Lobster Films in Paris and L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy.

4 DVD BOX SET
PRICE : 40€
Available on http://shop-lobsterfilms.com/CHAPLIN-The-Essanay-Comedies-1915

2015 Charlie Chaplin Calendars

21 Oct 2014

Officially licensed 2015 Charlie Chaplin calendars by Aquarupella are available now on http://www.renaud-bray.com.

2014 Commemorative Gold Coin

24 Apr 2014

The Perth Mint celebrates Charlie Chaplin’s enormous contribution to the movie industry with this remarkable 2014 commemorative gold coin housed in a display case which plays a short film clip to music from the silent film ‘The Circus’ when the lid of the case is opened.