The Criterion Collection

“The film modern times deffinetly paints a depressing picture/environment that Charlie Chapmen some how makes the best of. It showed people begging for work, tormenting labor, hunger, and poor living . . .”

Ansel Koehler on Modern Times: Exit the Tramp,
about 16 hours ago.

“ Charlie Chaplin’s character of the Tramp shows the struggle of American’s in the 1930’s of wanting to achieve the American dream, but not being able to due to their drastic lack of money. The tramp . . .”

Julie Ford on Modern Times: Exit the Tramp,
about 21 hours ago.

“The character of the Tramp suggests that the 1930s was a time of transition for American culture. After the innovation and successive opulence that occurred during the Industrial Revolution in the . . .”

mikayla r on Modern Times: Exit the Tramp,
1 day ago.

“I was watching the supplemental features today, including the BBC interview with Tati. It was so great to him speak so intelligently and passionately about comedy, a topic I feel like most people . . .”

CaptainFunction on The Dance of Playtime,
1 day ago.

“Marjorie Perloff described modernism as "less revolution than restoration" I think this is why Chaplin's Modern Times exhibits the aura of modernism as she calls it. Modern Times is not a silent . . .”

samuel d.w. on Modern Times: Exit the Tramp,
1 day ago.