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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790771656 Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0790771659 Item Dimensions: Label: United Artists Languages: Manufacturer: United Artists MPN: D37648D Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: United Artists Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 02, 2004 Running Time: 186 minutes Studio: United Artists Theatrical Release Date: February 06, 1931 Editorial Review: Product Description: Talkies were well entrenched when Charles Chaplin swam against the filmmaking tide with this forever classic that's silent except for music and sound effects. The story involving the Tramp's attempts to get money for an operation that will restore sight to a blind flower girl provides the star with an ideal framework for sentiment and laughs. The Tramp is variously a street sweeper a boxer a rich poseur and a rescuer of a suicidal millionaire. His message is unspoken but universally understood: love is blind.Running Time: 186 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085393764821 Amazon.com essential video: City Lights is a film to pick for the time capsule, a film that best represents the many aspects of director-writer-star Charlie Chaplin at the peak of his powers: Chaplin the actor, the sentimentalist, the knockabout clown, the ballet dancer, the athlete, the lover, the tragedian, the fool. It's all contained in Chaplin's simple story of a tramp who falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). Chaplin elevates the Victorian contrivances of the plot to something glorious with his inventive use of pantomime and his sure grasp of how the Tramp relates to the audience. In 1931, it was a gamble for Chaplin to stick with silence after talking pictures had killed off the art form that had made him famous, but audiences flocked to City Lights anyway. (Chaplin would not make his first full talking picture until 1940's The Great Dictator.) After all the superb comic sequences, the film culminates with one of the most moving scenes in the history of cinema, a luminous and heartbreaking fade-out that lifts the picture onto another plane. (Woody Allen paid homage to the scene at the end of Manhattan.) This is why the term "Chaplinesque" became a part of the language. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating: - These lights shine brighter than most...Recently I had the privilege of catching part of a Charlie Chaplin marathon on TCM and I have to say that I am blown away with the man's genius. I've desperately wanted to get my hands on Chaplin's work since watching `Chaplin' starring Robert Downey Jr. but I've not had the opportunity or the time to really sit down and give him his due time. Thankfully I had the time to watch a few of his films last month, among them was `City Lights', the film for which Chaplin's title of genius is hinged on. ... Read More Rating: - Cute as a button.City Lights directed by Charlie Chaplin and also stars in is such a cute and timeless silent film classic. In College, I took a film class and our professor said to watch one silent film so I chose City Lights not knowing what to expect. To my utter delight, I fell head over heels in love with this film, the music, pace, and physical comedy is 100% charming. Charlie Chaplin will captivate your heart, I highly recommend it! Enjoy. Rating: - "City Lights" enlightening screenwriters all over the world.City Lights, as well as all Chaplin masterpeices, is shear genius. For any human being who ever dreamed of writing and directing a film, whether personal or intended for a large audience, City Lights is the text book to consult. Watch Chaplin's moves, gestures, facial expressions with special emphasis on his eye brows, and it wont be hard to discover the secret of great storytelling. The secret is not dialogue but action. In these times of action adventure and special effects, it is refressing to see ... Read More Rating: - Moved me to tears!I had never seen a Chaplin film in full, nor ever heard of "City Lights", however I had seen the bio-pic "Chaplin" with Robert Downey Jr., and was aware that Chaplin was considered a genius. so one morning when I stumbled across "City Lights" while channel surfing, I was very interested to watch the film and finally get to see some of Chaplin's work. I found myself enjoying the movie much more than I anticipated, I got very absorbed in the story, and found myself actually laughing out loud. ... Read More Rating: - One Of Chaplin''s Best & Most Endearing FilmsI always thought this was one of Charlie Chaplin's nicest, most under-appreciated silent movie gems, and I am glad to see other Amazon reviewers agreeing. Part of the reason I think so highly of this is simply that I'm a sentimentalist and story in this film is a very touching one. It's a romance between Charlie's tramp character (no name) and a blind girl, who also had no name in this film. Virginia Cherill, who played the blind woman and had a wholesome, pretty face which I found very attractive. ... Read More |
