Fresno Filmworks

  • Modern Times
  • with short film SIMULACRA
  • Saturday, April 19, 2008
  • 11 a.m.
  • The Tower Theatre
  • 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
  • $10.00 General Admission
  • $8.00 for Students and Seniors

“Chaplin’s sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.”
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

“Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.”
Frank S. Nugent, New York Times

“The opening sequence in Chaplin’s second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Synopsis

Playing a tramp struggling to survive in a modern industrial society, Charlie Chaplin created, with MODERN TIMES, one of the most elaborate cinematic critiques of the effects of mass production on 20th century life. With his usual charm and bad luck, Charlie Chaplin’s most famous character, The Tramp, executes some of his most famous slapstick routines around massive/glorified machines, accidentally ends up in the middle of a communist rally, and falls in love with a street waif played by Chaplin’s then real-life partner Paulette Goddard.

http://www.kino.com/moderntimes

Directed by Charlie Chaplin
USA, 1936
87 minutes, NR

Companion Short Film

  • Simulacra
  • USA, Tatchapon Lertwirojkul
  • 4 minutes, English
  • In the vast universe, there is a robot planet on which everything is machine and robot. One day, a robot finds there is one organic life existing on his world. Then, he decide to get that piece.