Rent Modern Times (1936)


The Little Tramp punches in and wigs out inside a factory where gizmos like an employee feeding machine may someday make the lunch hour last just 15 minutes. Bounced into the ranks of the unemployed, he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goddard) to pursue bliss and a paycheck, finding misadventures as a roller-skating night watchman, a singing waiter whose hilarious song is gibberish, a jailbird and more. In the end, as tramp and waif walk arm in arm into an insecure future we know they’ve found neither bliss nor a paycheck but, more importantly, each other. The times and satire remain timeless in Modern Times.
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Individual Discs
Modern Times - Disc 1
Modern Times - Disc 2: Bonus Material
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BFI Classification:
Universal - suitable for all ages
Release Date: 22/09/2003
Production Year: 1936
Run Time: 83 minutes
Aspect Ratio: Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Format: Pal
Colour: B & W

Special Features:

  • 'Chaplin Today - Modern Times': a documentary by Philippe Truffault with the participation of Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (26 mins)
  • Introduction by David Robinson: Chaplin's biographer sets the film in its historical and cinematic context (6 mins)
  • Deleted scenes: Charlie's nonsense song in its complete version, and more! (5 mins)
  • Karaoke: the mystery of Charlie's nonsense song solved in its karaoke version (3 mins)
  • 'Smile' by Liberace (1956): Chaplin's most famous theme song from 'Modern Times', sung by Liberace (4 mins)
  • 'Behind The Scenes In The Machine Age (1931): U.S. government-sponsored educational film: a hymn to assembly line labour in the United States in the 1930's (42 mins)
  • 'Symphony In F' (1940): a ponderous musical film commissioned by Ford whose assembly line inspired 'Modern Times' (9 mins)
  • 'Por Primera Vez/For the First Time' (1967): a Cuban documentary short on the reaction of peasants while watching their first movie, thanks to a travelling projectionist showing 'Modern Times' (10 mins)
  • Photo gallery: 250 preparatory sketches
  • Poster gallery
  • Scenes from the films in the Chaplin Collection (23 mins)
  • Theatrical trailers (6 mins)
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