Modern Times. Charles Chaplin, 1936.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #543, released 2010. Scored and with English intertitles; no dialogue track for most of the film with some English language. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence toward animals.
Chaplin’s gibberish performance of Léo Daniderff’s Je cherche après Titine, (also known as The Nonsense Song because of the way it is performed here) is the first time movie-goers heard Chaplin’s voice. It also is one of cinema’s great joys.
The Criterion Blu-ray includes numerous critical video essays and some important short films:
The Rink (1916) - a hilarious short film by Chaplin
All at Sea (1933) - a home movie of Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Alistair Cooke on Chaplin’s yacht. Warning: graphic murder of a shark.
For the First Time (1967) - A short documentary about a traveling film projection crew that shows the people of a remote Cuban village their first movie, Modern Times.