Modern Times

 

Year: 1936

Time: 87 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 543

Release Date: Tuesday, 16 November 2010

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

1.33:1

English PCM Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson   Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance   New program on the film’s visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt   Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin, plus a selection from the film’s original orchestral track   Two segments cut from the film   All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Charlie Chaplin and actress Paulette Goddard, with a new score by Donald Sosin and a new interview with Cooke’s daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge   The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler   For the First Time (1967), a short Cuban documentary about first-time moviegoers seeing Modern Times   Chaplin Today: “Modern Times” (2003), a program with filmmakers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne   Three theatrical trailers   A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a new piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Charlie Chaplin’s writing about his 1930s world tour