Outfitted with a new score and title sequence, reedited sans several scenes involving the woman, and rereleased in 1972, Charlie Chaplin’s first feature length film The Kid has finally made its way to home video in HD thanks to the Cineteca di Bologna’s gloriously meticulous restoration and 4k digital transfer. Originally released back in 1921 after about a half decade of acting and eventually directing wildly popular shorts for Keystone Studios, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company and finally the Mutual Film Corporation, the film endured a year long production amidst personal and professional crisis. It was thought that Chaplin’s signature brand of comedic slapstick, which typically ran just two reels of film, could not support the length of a six reel feature, but as is evidenced within, the film perfectly fuses Chaplin’s penchant for melodrama with his masterful vaudevillian humor to create an astonishingly emotional comedy that plumbs...
- 2/16/2016
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
“Tramps And Orphans”
By Raymond Benson
The Criterion Collection continues its excellent re-issuing of Charles Chaplin’s major works with The Kid, the first full-length feature from the filmmaker. Released in 1921, Chaplin expanded on the two and three reelers he had been making (a “reel” at that time was approximately 10-15 minutes long) to the six-reels of The Kid (the original cut was just over an hour; Chaplin re-edited it in the early 70s to create the now standard 53-minute version). It’s still a short film, but longer than what were considered “shorts.”
The Kid received high acclaim on its release and was one of the writer/actor/director’s most popular pictures. This was in part due to the presence of young Jackie Coogan in the titular role. Coogan, who grew up to play Uncle Fester in The Addams Family television series of the 1960s, steals the movie...
By Raymond Benson
The Criterion Collection continues its excellent re-issuing of Charles Chaplin’s major works with The Kid, the first full-length feature from the filmmaker. Released in 1921, Chaplin expanded on the two and three reelers he had been making (a “reel” at that time was approximately 10-15 minutes long) to the six-reels of The Kid (the original cut was just over an hour; Chaplin re-edited it in the early 70s to create the now standard 53-minute version). It’s still a short film, but longer than what were considered “shorts.”
The Kid received high acclaim on its release and was one of the writer/actor/director’s most popular pictures. This was in part due to the presence of young Jackie Coogan in the titular role. Coogan, who grew up to play Uncle Fester in The Addams Family television series of the 1960s, steals the movie...
- 2/1/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
It's mid-month, which means The Criterion Collection has announced more movies to make your wallet cry. And February finds the collection focusing on some classic titles, and arthouse works that will certainly test the financial resolve of cinephiles. The biggest coup is Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" getting the Criterion treatment. The newly restored movie features the 2007 commentary track with the late Nichols and Steven Soderbergh, plus an even older track from 1987 with scholar Howard Suber. Elsewhere, the disc is loaded with conversations, featurettes, interviews, and much more. It's a deservingly loaded Blu-ray for a film that definitely defined an era. Speaking of eras, Criterion goes silent with Charlie Chaplin's celebrated "The Kid." As is standard, it's also newly restored, comes with an extra short — "Nice And Friendly" — and a plethora of interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, featurettes, and more. Meanwhile, the rest of February is...
- 11/16/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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