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Limelight

Charles Chaplin (Actor), Claire Bloom (Actor), Charles Chaplin (Director) | Rated: G (General Audience) | Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

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A touching "Chaplin Today" documentary includes Bernardo Bertolucci's emotional reaction to the film ("I don't cry often, but here my tears flow"), and recollections from the Limelight's ingenue, the articulate Claire Bloom. Chaplin's soundtrack (awarded an Oscar in 1972) is presented complete, and there's an interesting deleted scene, Chaplin home movies, and photo and poster galleries. Seven minutes of an uncompleted 1919 short, The Professor, give an early glimpse at Chaplin's flea-trainer routine. --Robert Horton

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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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3.0 out of 5 stars As the Years Passed By...., Jun 8 2004
This review is from: Limelight (DVD)
l saw this movie when it first came out and was totally entranced. l laughed, l cried, l wondered, l was in awe. And l saw it at least 3 more times over the course of the same year (either 1952 or 1953). lt became one of my most favorite films.

And the years went by, and lo! in the mid-'80's it was scheduled to appear uninterrupted on one of the Cable channels and l joyfully told friends not to miss it because of its greatness and l had a small party, a gathering of selected friends to watch the movie with me. l was a veritable Press Agent for the film in my neighborhood.

And the film started...and the friends at my house left around 3/4 of the way through the movie, the others asked me (the next day +) if l was kidding them....in summary, the movie just didn't stand up to today's standards. The sets were cheesy, the acting often overdone, the emoting embarrassing and l and all of my friends were disappointed big-time...yet another "old-time" movie that didn't stand up to the test of time.

But it's Chaplin and should be at least rented and seen. l myself just can't add it to my DVD collection.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Chaplin revised, July 8 2004
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T. ANDREASSON (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Limelight (DVD)
A pretentious, dull and tedious movie about a vaudeville clown saving a ballerina from suicide. Calvero(Chaplin) goes on and on with self indulgent monoloughes and performs on stage comedy for two year olds.

He even took the opportunity to reduce the great Buster Keaton to a studio intern. Heartbreaking to witness.

I regret I saw it...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant Ending, April 8 2004
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Villemar (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Limelight (DVD)
This is a fascinating and complex film that, if you are a Chaplin fan, will hit you with many emotions and make you think. The movie is rather dreamlike, in the sense that it re-invokes memories of his father, the music halls of his youth, his no-longer-attainable desires for beautiful young ingenues, and nighmares of losing an audience. As the last film he ever made in the US before he was declared persona non grata, it is an apt bookend to a 38 year film career. If the tramp was killed off by Monsier Verdoux, Charlie's remaining avatars confront death with elegance and melancholy in this underrated treasure.
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