Double Feature: New 35 mm Print! MODERN TIMES & A KING IN NEW YORK June 24, 2010

Double Feature: New 35 mm Print! MODERN TIMES, 1936, Janus Films, 87 min. Charlie Chaplin directs and plays the Tramp in this brilliantly inventive critique of industrial advancement. When the Tramp begins to take on one too many characteristics of the massive machinery that surrounds him, the powers-that-be are made nervous by such anti-social behavior and suspect him of being a communist.

New 35 mm Print! A KING IN NEW YORK, 1957, Janus Films, 110 min. Charlie Chaplin's take on America in the 1950s, made during his exile from the country due to his leftist views, stars Chaplin as a peaceable king who runs afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Roberto Rossellini wisely called the work "the film of a free man."