Limelight
DVD - 2015
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2015]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- DVD release of the 1952 motion picture.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; Disc 2: Chaplin's "Limelight": Its evolution and intimacey (a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson); Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd (new interviews with the actors from 2015 and 2012); Chaplin today: "Limelight" (a 2002 documentary on the film); Outtake (scene involving an old, armless friend of Calvero's that was removed before the film's worldwide distribution); Charlie Chaplin reads from Footlights (archival audio recording of Charlie Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights which is the basis for Limelight); Short films: A night in the show (1915 ; 25 min., accompanied by a 2014 score by composer Timothy Brock), The professor (1919 ; 7 min., uncomplete film); Trailers. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital monophonic.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Music composed by Charles Chaplin ; arranged by Ray Rasch and Charles Chaplin ; conducted by Keith Williams ; director of photography, Karl Struss ; editor, Joe Inge.
- ISBN
- 9781604659948