FILM ARCHIVES City Lights
by Jim Hoberman
Dir. Charles Chaplin (1931).
The most wistfully Chaplinesque of Chaplin features, as well as a movie made in defiance of sound, this is the one about the homeless tramp and the blind girl. The final shot is among the most celebrated in movies.
Mon., Dec. 21, 1:30, 5:10 & 8:50 p.m.; Tue., Dec. 22, 3:20 & 7 p.m., 2009