Modern Times 1935 1936 1937 next previous
Modern Times Clippings 248/382
Winston Burdett, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, N. Y., February 6, 1936.
& Winston Burdett, undated
& Dance of the Gadgets
Charlie Chaplin in a scene from his new movie, „Modern Times,“ which has its world premiere tonight at the Rivoli Theater.
(...) Photo, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Feb. 5, 1936
& Same Modern Times Scene
„To suffer greatly by the comparison“
Editorial content. „Movie First-Nighters View
New Chaplin Film
THE SCREEN
By Winston Burdett
Modern Times, With Charlie Chaplin, Opens
at the Rivoli –“ (...)
„Charlie Chaplin‘s satire of the machine age, Modern Times,
had its first showing last night at the Rivoli Theater under
circumstances that left no doubt that this was an ,event.‘ If you
have kept up at all with the advance publicity which has
attended the picture, you are aware that this is in every respect
a Chaplin creation: Chaplin wrote it, directed it and
produced it, and even composed the accompanying score.
More provocative than this, however, was the fact
that in Modern Times he promised to give his own satirical
indictment of industrial civilization, to set himself
loose among the machines and play havoc with the mammoth
of a modern factory. It was an order which invited
comparison with Rene Clair; and indeed, Modern Times is far
too reminiscent of A Nous la Liberte not to suffer
greatly by the comparison.“ (...)
Rivoli, Broadway and 49th Street, New York.
Redaktioneller Inhalt
