CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S ‘MODERN TIMES’ STILL PACKS THEM IN

Marlon Brando is also being celebrated at the Cinema Ritrovato festival, dedicated to rediscovered classics

 di Nick Vivarelli 
(Variety, 27 giugno 2016)

“Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ can still draw a massive crowd after 80 years. An estimated 7,000 spectators packed Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore square to catch the 1936 classic starring Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in a restored version with live musical accompaniment on Saturday, as it opened the 30th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival dedicated to rediscovered gems. […] The event is run by Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna, the prominent film archives known globally as a prime film-preservation entity. After dedicating more than a decade to the restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s entire oeuvre, it is currently working on a multiyear project to restore all of Buster Keaton’s films, in tandem with New York-based Cohen Media Group.”

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