It’s worth considering why artists find comic settings for intimate and political crises.
, Moving Image will present Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times,” which is one of the cinema’s key works concerning the Depression and its attendant political troubles. It came out in 1936, when the movies themselves were, in effect, a source of news, and Chaplin’s film had the power of a refracted documentary view of places and lives often hidden offscreen.
The comic refractions of these movies, as delightful as they are, wouldn’t have been necessary, and wouldn’t have endured, if it had been easy to take a radical look at political crisis in Hollywood movies, or if it had been possible to film sexual liberation in an era that resisted it.
All three directors, being up-to-the-minute modernists, have worked within the currents of major artistic traditions. All three of these troublemakers have managed to get some, too. That’s part of the tradition.Movie Club Newsletter to get reviews of the current cinema, movie listings for the weekend ahead, and more.
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