- Actors: Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley
- Directors: Charles Chaplin
- Format: PAL, Black & White, Full Screen, Subtitled
- Language English
- Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Run Time: 178 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000KG01XK
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 48,299 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Cinema immortal Charles Chaplin brings his talents to both sides of the camera in this deluxe double feature. The comedy king gives American pop culture and politics the royal treatment in the satiric, penultimate Chaplin film 'A King in New York'. Advertising, movies, TV, rock music, celebrity and more are in Chaplin's comic sights as he portrays a deposed European monarch who becomes a U.S. media sensation. The acclaimed Silent-Era classic 'A Woman of Paris' is his first drama (a genre he visited again in 'Limelight'). Directing with keen-eyed finesse and appearing in only a bit role, Chaplin jabs at French high society while telling a tale of tragic love. The early Chaplin. The later Chaplin. A remarkable genius infuses both in this special collector's compilation.
ABOUT THE DVD: This is a double disc release by WARNER HOME VIDEO and both discs are loaded with extras, including short documentaries on both films, deleted scenes and trailers. The DVDs have remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks (as well as the original mono audio too). SUBTITLES on the discs include English, Arabic, Bulgarian, French, Italian, Dutch and German. - 'A King In New York' also has French or Italian language audiotrack options (in addition to the original English audio of course).
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Having gradually collected Chaplin's films on DVD, I bought this double disc set to complete my collection. I saved these til last because I assumed I would not be interested in a film that is not a comedy and that Chaplin does not star in (A Woman of Paris) and I presumed Chaplin's last film (A King in New York) would be a bit of a sad effort. Now that I have watched both films, I think I was right and wrong.
I was pleasantly surprised to find A Woman of Paris held my interest, even though it is a silent drama. The beginning is a bit melodramatic but the film improves as it goes along and the performances - especially Adolph Menjou's playboy character - are all good. The acting is much more naturalistic than you expect with a silent film. Chaplin made this film to launch Edna Purviance on a dramatic film career, following her successful partnership with him in many comedies. I think this film really does Edna justice and shows her skill as a dramatic actress which she learned from Charlie. The film-making is great and really does Charlie justice too as a director.
A King in New York sort of lived up to my expectations as it is definitely not up to his usual standard. There is some good satire of 50's TV advertising and some funny scenes, but a lot of it falls flat and it is sad to see Charlie resorting to some pretty crude slapstick at times. Apparently the film was made quite quickly on a limited budget - and I'm afraid it shows.
Both discs contain excellent extras, with intro's by David Robinson and supporting documentaries explaining the background to each film.
Overall - a good boxset but I suspect only of interest to real Chaplin fans.
I was pleasantly surprised to find A Woman of Paris held my interest, even though it is a silent drama. The beginning is a bit melodramatic but the film improves as it goes along and the performances - especially Adolph Menjou's playboy character - are all good. The acting is much more naturalistic than you expect with a silent film. Chaplin made this film to launch Edna Purviance on a dramatic film career, following her successful partnership with him in many comedies. I think this film really does Edna justice and shows her skill as a dramatic actress which she learned from Charlie. The film-making is great and really does Charlie justice too as a director.
A King in New York sort of lived up to my expectations as it is definitely not up to his usual standard. There is some good satire of 50's TV advertising and some funny scenes, but a lot of it falls flat and it is sad to see Charlie resorting to some pretty crude slapstick at times. Apparently the film was made quite quickly on a limited budget - and I'm afraid it shows.
Both discs contain excellent extras, with intro's by David Robinson and supporting documentaries explaining the background to each film.
Overall - a good boxset but I suspect only of interest to real Chaplin fans.
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This is a review of "A Woman of Paris" only; the other reviewer has given a good critique of "A King in New York", which I agree with. I had never even heard of "A Woman of Paris" and was bowled over by it. Chaplin does not appear in it (other than in a brief walk-on part)and it isn't his usual knock-about comedy, though it has much sharp and amusing social comment in it. It concerns the lifestyle and loves of an abandoned country girl who makes good as a courtesan in Paris in the flapper period. This was Chaplin's first shot at directing, and he was still very young, but the innovative brilliance of it is breathtaking. Nevertheless it bombed, probably only because the audiences didn't get the little tramp they were expecting, and a world-class director of serious films was lost to us for ever.
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Charles Chaplin is setting up his own troubles with the anti-American activities commission on the screen, and that is quite funny though particularly dramatic. That episode of US history is so strange but also tragic that it should be remembered forever for the mistake not to be ever renewed in the future, though with no guarantee that it will be so. Unluckily in this kind of business there seems to be always a repeat and another repeat and a third repeat, without any ending. Charles Chaplin turns his own mishap into a comedy, with some very traditional but always lively and kind of born again gags and tricks. But he does succeed to turn a dramatic situation into a laughable short episode, though it means a child of ten is turned into a fink who exposes other people to protect his own interest, with no guarantee of any truth in what he may say, since he is a child, and with the certainty that he will be spoiled forever by the episode. This film, no matter how well-felt it may have been, will remain a testimony of that McCarthy period, mocked in his very victims that become Macaby. But we will regret that such a great artist was obliged to come to making this film to bring an end, or at least help to bring an end, to this sorry episode. We would have liked him to have reached his acme in political films with the Dictator and never gone beyond, but unluckily life made him write and shoot another episode which is just as sorry, even if not as bloody, as the previous one.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
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