Synopsis & Film Details
Modern Times*
with short film Simulcra*
- Saturday, April 19, 2008
- 11 a.m.
- The Tower Theatre
- 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
Synopsis
Playing a tramp struggling to survive in 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.
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 in his world. Then, he decides to get that piece.
Part of the 4th Fresno Film Festival (2008).