Limelight
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Call Number: Blu-ray Comedy Limelight
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Blu-ray Comedy Limelight | 1-week checkout | On Shelf |
Title from container.
DVD release of the 1952 motion picture.
Special edition features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; Chaplin's "Limelight": Its evolution and intimacey, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinso; New interviews with actors; Chaplin today: "Limelight," a 2002 documentary on the film; Outtake from the film; Archival audio recording of Charlie Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights; Two short films by Chaplin; Trailers; Plus: an essay by critic Peter von Bagh.
Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Melissa Hayden.
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player; Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
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SERIES
Criterion collection
756.
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Blu-Ray
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781604659931
1604659939
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977,
Bloom, Claire, 1931-
Bruce, Nigel, 1895-1953,
Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966,
Chaplin, Sydney,
Criterion Collection (Firm),
SUBJECTS
Comedians -- Drama.
Ballet dancers -- Drama.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Fiction films.
Feature films.