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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790771663
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790771667
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2003
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 39224
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1952
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Editorial Review:
Description:
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives.
Amazon.com essential video:
Certainly, Charlie Chaplin at this point in his career (1952) had earned the right to reflect on his years as an entertainer, and could make his film as overlong and soppy and sentimental as he darn well pleased. But that doesn't mean the rest of us have to abet this kind of melodramatic indulgence. Chaplin stars as Calvero, a fading clown who helps a paralyzed dancer regain the use of her legs and achieve great fame, but of course at grave cost to Calvero. The film is famous for featuring the only onscreen teaming of Chaplin with the other legendary comic of the silent era, Buster Keaton, and is equally infamous for Chaplin having allegedly cut out most of Keaton's best bits in their sequence together. How much Chaplin sabotaged his own movie to keep Keaton from shining has been much debated, but consider: In Keaton's autobiography, he calls Chaplin the greatest screen comic of all time. In Chaplin's autobiography, he never mentions Keaton. --David Kronke
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Hello,
I am a person who really loves Chaplin, and own copies of almost every movie available from his Sennet days to "A King In New York". I usually play them from the earliest to the latest about once every year or two. My heart sinks as I approach "Limelight". I find it to be a trial to sit through. It seems to drone on and on, and be filled with bathos.
If I hear Claire Bloom say "Calvero" over again, and whine on and on about life, I will probably scream. Actually ... Read More
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***** 1952. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Academy award in the Best Musical Score category in 1973 (LIMELIGHT wasn't shown in los Angeles until 1972) ! Sublime melodrama of the British genius with Buster Keaton as guest star. A young ballerina falls in love with an aging clown. Masterpiece.
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Few feature films can boast this movie's depth and breadth of hot breath. Its first two hours have no action, little plot, less story and are nothing more than Chaplin pontificating about nearly everything, blah, blah, blah. You might find yourself fidgeting for, not just a moment here and there, but every minute of those first two hours. It's dreadful.
But wait, here's the shocker, it's all worth it. Suddenly, after talking at the audience for two hours, Chaplin ends the film with brilliance. ... Read More
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Famous for the only on-screen pairing of Chaplin and Keaton, the all-time masters of physical comedy, Chaplin's self-directed, self-scored, and evidently semi-autobiographical "Limelight" is a bittersweet comedy. The ravishing Bloom is spirited playing opposite the maudlin, melancholy Chaplin, and Keaton certainly holds his own with his idol in that memorable final scene. Hilarious at times but also woebegone in its farewell tribute to a music-hall tradition the director no doubt misses, "Limelight" is the furthest ... Read More
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Charlie Chaplin's movies from very early on were not only funny, but always seemed to reveal some basic truths about humanity. Unlike most of his works, which were comedies with a little pathos, Limelight is pathos with a little comedy. Yes, Chaplin can still make you laugh, but in Limelight he will make you cry, he will make you think, he will make you understand the truths about life and love. The dialogue in this movie is not only filled with great, insightful lines, but has a distinct and mesmerizing rhythym. ... Read More
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