1936 • Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
• Introduced by Film Archivist Stan Taffel •
Modern Times is one of the cleverest, funniest, and most important films ever made. Chaplin’s iconic “Tramp” character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world, with the help of a young homeless woman. It’s the film that gave the world Chaplin's song "Smile", one of the most beautiful and most recorded melodies of the twentieth century. For anyone who loves cinema or comedy, it’s one of those films you want to see again and again and again.