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Bookmark or Share- City Lights Review - Criterion ForumCity Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and ...
- Moonstruck Review - Criterion Forum
A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as ...
- WALL·E Review - Criterion Forum
A high-water mark of digital animation, this prescient vision of a dystopian future is packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, making for an urgent fable for our troubled millennium. It’s the twenty-ninth century, and humans have long since fled Earth for outer space, leaving WALL•E, the last functioning trash-compacting robot, to go about the work of cleaning up a ...
- City Lights Details :: Criterion ForumCity Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle.The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire.
- The Asphalt Jungle Review - Criterion ForumCriterion then digs up an October 10th, 1979 episode of the Canadian television show City Lights, featuring its host, Brian Linehan talking to filmmaker John Huston about his film work. The 48-minute discussion is fairly dry, but the two do touch some interesting subjects, like Huston’s living between Ireland and Mexico, his daughter ...
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