Limelight (1952) [The Criterion Collection #756]

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Limelight (1952) [The Criterion Collection #756]
A film by Charles Chaplin
2xDVD9 | Untouched | ISO+MDS | NTSC 1.37:1 (4:3) 720x522 VBR | 137 min | 7.70 GB + 7.12 GB
Audio: English AC-3 Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono @ 384/192 kbps 48.0 kHz | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Music | Country: USA

Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays 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 (Claire Bloom) who lives downstairs. An elegant mix of the comic and the tragic, this poignant movie also features Buster Keaton in an extended cameo, marking the only time the two silent comedy icons appeared in a film together. Made at a time when Chaplin was under attack by the American press and far right, Limelight was scarcely distributed in the United States upon its initial release, but it is now considered one of his essential and most personal works.

DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Chaplin’s “Limelight”: Its Evolution and Intimacy, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
New interviews with actors Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd
Chaplin Today: “Limelight,” a 2002 documentary on the film
Archival audio recording of Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights
Two short films by Chaplin: A Night in the Show (1915) and the uncompleted The Professor (1919)
Outtake and two trailers

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