2016 Charlie Chaplin Days in Niles, CA
This year’s Charlie Chaplin Days in Niles, CA are on June 11 & 12. Visitors can enjoy film screenings, a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and more!
For more information, visit Niles Film Museum’s website.
This year’s Charlie Chaplin Days in Niles, CA are on June 11 & 12. Visitors can enjoy film screenings, a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and more!
For more information, visit Niles Film Museum’s website.
Last year, we launched the digital distribution of the soundtracks to The Kid, The Gold Rush, The Circus and City Lights. We also released Charlie Chaplin’s legendary final speech from The Great Dictator on digital platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon, etc.
Very soon, we will be releasing excerpts from the original recording of the music to Modern Times, as well. Stay tuned!
Chaplin’s archive does contain the entire, full, orchestrated scores. But Chaplin, as a filmmaker, was making changes all the time, sort of trial and error, and he was that way as a composer as well. He would compose a piece of music, they would make a short score of it and orchestrate it, and he would sit down with the orchestrator and tell him what to do. They’d make a full score, they’d make parts for the forty to sixty musicians, and then they would listen to it, and he’d go, “Hmm, no, I don’t like that, let’s have the oboe do this line instead, on trumpet here . . .” So players were writing stuff down all the time, because he was dictating the changes he was listening to. All of those changes were done on the parts, or on pieces of paper they attached to the parts. I found music for Modern Times on the back of laundry receipts and paper menus and things like that, whatever scraps of paper players could find at the last moment and write down some notes. - Timothy Brock
Read more about the delicate process of restoring Charlie Chaplin’s music in a new interview of Timothy Brock on Criterion’s website.
Tonight at Lincoln Center, NYC, the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Timothy Brock, will accompany City Lights with the score composed by Charlie Chaplin himself.
Click here for our full regularly-updated list of live orchestral screenings worldwide.
We’ve uploaded a new video on our Youtube channel, TheChaplinFilms. Watch it below:
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The Great Dictator will be screened this evening at 9:30 pm at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéma de la Plage.
Speaking of Chaplin and Cannes, here’s a video from the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, when Charlie Chaplin was honored with the title of “Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor”:
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