I thought about picking something that I did not previous choose. But I think I’ll choose a previous pick anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Modern Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For pretty much the same reasons why I gave in my earlier post for favorite United Artists film<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, depending on my mood, it is City Lights<\/a>, or Shoulder Arms<\/a>, or The Great Dictator<\/a>, or if I was in a noir frame of mind, Monsieur Verdoux<\/a>. Or really any one of them. Over the years some people have assumed my favorite was Limelight since I picked Calvero as my username. Nope. Though I do truly love and adore it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But most of the time it’s Modern Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The official Chaplin site has a great article on the making of the film<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my MT post<\/a>, I mentioned the feeding machine scene where I laughed so much I was crying and my sides hurt. A few months after my post, the Chaplin YouTube channel<\/a> posted the scene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n