Limelight
2015
DVD
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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604659948
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (137 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
- digital optical
- video file DVD video region 1
Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR.
Other Title: Limelight (Motion picture : 1952) DVD.
Notes:
- Title from container.
- 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 Robinso); 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 minutes, accompanied by a 2014 score by composer Timothy Brock), The professor (1919 ; 7 minutes, uncomplete film); Trailers. Booklet includes an essay by critic Peter von Bagh.
- Music composed by Charles Chaplin ; arranged by Ray Rasch and Charles Chaplin ; conducted by Keith Williams ; director of photography, Karl Struss ; art director, Eugene Lourie ; editor, Joe Inge ; wardrobe designed by Riley Thorne.
- Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Norman Lloyd, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Marjorie Bennett.
- DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; full screen (1.37:1) presentation ; monaural.
- For private home use only.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 11290783
Control Number: 1197055
UPC: 715515146319
Publisher: Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2015]Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 756. DVD.
- Criterion collection ; 756
Subjects:
- Alcoholics -- Drama.
- Ballet dancers -- Drama.
- Comedians -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Drama.
Genre: Feature films.
Other Authors:
- Bagh, Peter von, 1943-2014, writer of supplementary textual content.
- Bennett, Marjorie, 1894-1982, actor.
- Bloom, Claire, 1931- actor.
- Brock, Timothy.
- Bruce, Nigel, 1895-1953, actor.
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, film director, screenwriter, actor.
- Chaplin, Sydney, actor.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
- Eglevsky, André, actor.
- Hayden, Melissa, actor.
- Inge, Joe.
- Janus Films, production company.
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, actor.
- Lloyd, Norman, 1914-2021 actor.
- Lourié, Eugene, art director.
- MK2 Diffusion (Firm), production company.
- Rasch, Ray, 1917-1964, arranger of music.
- Robinso, David, filmmaker.
- Struss, Karl, 1886-1981, director of photography.
- Thorne, Riley, costume designer.
- Williams, Keith, 1924-2008, conductor.