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The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (City Lights / The Circus / The Kid / A King in New York / A Woman of Paris / Monsieur Verdoux / The Chaplin Revue / Charlie - The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin)Rating:
Release Date: 09 March, 2004 Retail Price: $99.92 OUR Price: $89.93 You SAVE: $9.99! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (City Lights / The Circus / The Kid / A King in New York / A Woman of Paris / Monsieur Verdoux / The Chaplin Revue / Charlie - The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin) Reviews
Another triumph
A really outstanding collection, with very fine video and sound quality, and some terrific supplemental features. A must buy!
I'm taking off a star because of the unforgiveable packaging errors--Disc One is really Disc Two, and the packaging is likewise confusing and mislabeled. Really no excuse for that. Sorry, Charlie!
A Nice, if Somewhat Sloppy Boxed Set
Warner Brothers' "The Chaplin Collection Volume 2" gathers together numerous films from the career of one of the few cinematic geniuses. The best of the films, "City Lights," is a masterpiece of comic timing, and also features a truly engrossing love story. "The Circus" and "The Kid" are also marvelously funny and touching classics. "The Chaplin Revue," which gathers several of his short films is more of a mixed bag, but the better shorts (like "Shoulder Arms" and "A Dog's Life") are still excellent. "A Woman of Paris" is an interesting dramatic experiment, and "Monsieur Verdoux," while uneven, certainly has its moments. The only truly terrible movie in the box is "A King in New York," but it is, at the very least, an interesting document of Chaplin's views on the America that disowned him.
Like in the previous bozed set, the films look very good. Mastered from near perfect source material, the only problem is the occasional fuzziness that occurs during scenes with much movement. The sound is adequate on the 'talkies,' and fine with the musical scores on the silent films.
The set is truly impressive with its huge quantity of extras. Each of the films contains an analytical documentary "Chaplin Today," with a different international filmmaker discussing each movie (Jim Jarmusch on "A King in New York" and Peter Lord on "City Lights," for example). The discs also include introductions by David Robinson, a Chaplin biographer, which are packed with information. In addition to trailers and photo galleries, there are numerous historical curios as well, ranging from footage from the premiere of "The Circus" to newsreel footage of Chaplin in London to footage of Chaplin signing the United Artists contract to a full length Jackie 'The Kid' Coogan film. Suffice to say, Chaplin fans are going to enjoy the extras.
The problem with the set is its sloppiness. For example, the 2-disc double feature of "A Woman of Paris" and "A King in New York" has the discs incorrectly labeled (ie the "King in New York" disc is labeled "Woman of Paris"). The same problem goes for the 2-disc "Chaplin Revue." The menus are extremely ugly, the chapter links page takes a very long time to go through, and the FBI warning is in about a kajillion different languages - and no skip option.
The set also includes Richard Schikel's dry by illuminating documentary "Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin," which includes interviews with Richard Attenborough, Geraldine Chaplin, Woody Allen, Andrew Sarris, David Robinson, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Scorsese, and many more. Definately worth watching.
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