Limelight // Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodland...
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
Stray Cat Film Center | Kansas City, MO
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A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.dir. Charles Chaplin // 1952 // 2 hr 17 min // Digital Projection
Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays 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 (Claire Bloom) who lives downstairs. An elegant mix of the comic and the tragic, this poignant movie also features Buster Keaton in an extended cameo, marking the only time the two silent comedy icons appeared in a film together. Made at a time when Chaplin was under attack by the American press and far right, Limelight was scarcely distributed in the United States upon its initial release, but it is now considered one of his essential and most personal works.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLAND... is a series hosted and programmed by KCAI lecturer Kara Heitz looking at classic Hollywood films and history from the advent of sound to the birth of New Hollywood.
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Where is it happening?
Stray Cat Film Center, 1664 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64108-1208, United States,Kansas City, MissouriEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
