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City Lights

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City Lights (1931)

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Reviews Counted: 34 Fresh: 34  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9.1/10

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Runtime: 3 hrs 6 mins

Synopsis: This Charlie Chaplin masterpiece tells a bittersweet tale about a blind girl who is restored to sight with the help of that quintessential urban misfit, the Tramp, who falls in love with her. One of Chaplin's best. This Charlie Chaplin masterpiece tells a bittersweet tale about a blind girl who is restored to sight with the help of that quintessential urban misfit, the Tramp, who falls in love with her. One of Chaplin's best. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Florence Lee

Director: Charlie Chaplin
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin
Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Composer: Alfred Newman

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 2, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • 2-Disc Digi-Pack
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Mono - English

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That final scene. Last week, CNN asked -- in "The Screening Room's Top 10 Romantic Moments" -- whether this was the most touching film moment of all time. Could be. Either way, if it doesn't move you, you're beyond human reach.

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03/04/08
Mark Bourne
Film.com
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01/18/08
David Fear
Time Out New York
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With its themes of selflessness and grace, as well as its graceful intertwining of comedy and pathos, this is a fine time for a revisit.

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01/04/08
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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12/19/07
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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Perfect.

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12/02/07
Cole Smithey
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The British comic is still the consummate pantomimist, unquestionably one of the greatest the stage or screen has ever known.

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06/27/07
Sid Silverman
Variety
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A beautiful example of Chaplin's ability to turn narrative fragments into emotional wholes. The two halves of the film are sentiment and slapstick. They are not blended but woven into a pattern as eccentric as it is sublime.

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06/27/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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City Lights is a great gift to all of us by a filmmaker at a latter-day peak of his genius

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08/20/06
Jay Antani
Perihelion Journal
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Incredibly powerful and heartbreaking ending.

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07/22/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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Plenty of great moments, and the occasional comic use of sound.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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Absolutely delightful, hilarious, heart breaking Chaplin classic.

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06/16/06
Steve Crum
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
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A film worked out with admirable artistry.

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01/28/06
Mordaunt Hall
New York Times
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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
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11/19/04
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
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The greatest and most touching finale of any film. Chaplin's masterpiece mixes comedy and sentiment. it makes you laugh, then brings a tear to your eye.

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09/21/04
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
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Four years after the sound era began, Charlie Chaplin made a meticulously mimed tragi-comedy that found him at his most sentimental, but no less a genius.

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08/25/04
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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The quintessential Chaplin film — both the most perfectly crafted and the most representative of all the different textures and tones for which he is remembered.

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07/09/04
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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Widely considered Chaplin's best film.

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04/17/04
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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Delicately blends comedy and pathos.

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03/24/04
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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Chaplin always said it was The Gold Rush by which he wanted to be remembered, but a lot of folks think City Lights is his best work.

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03/02/04
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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