Modern Times (Criterion Collection)

Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard. A satire about the age of machinery in which a victim of automation prefers a mental institution to the assembly line. The newly-restored, 2k-resolution digital transfer was created in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna and includes audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson, two new visual essays by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance, An Alistair Cooke home movie, All at Sea (1933) with Chaplin and actress Paulette Goddard, a Chaplin two-reeler, The Rink (1916), a program with filmmakers Kean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and more. Director Charlie Chaplin’s last silent film. 2 DVDs. 1936/b&w/87 min/NR/fullscreen.