Baltimore Gets a Year of Charlie Chaplin

                Charlie Chaplin, photo via Creative Commons

The Charles Theatre in Baltimore is presenting a treasure-trove of Chaplin's films with new 35mm prints.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN SERIES A year-long retrospective of Charlie Chaplin’s films begins this Saturday as part of the Charles Theatre’s Revival Series. Janus Films has produced seventeen new 35mm prints spanning the years 1918-1958. The Revival Series will show one Chaplin program each month through January 2013. Each film will be presented with a musical soundtrack. Kids Welcome.  FIRST PROGRAM: FEBRUARY 11, 13, 16 A DOG’S LIFE (1918) Thanks to a dog he finds, Charlie ends up in possession of some stolen loot. But the wrongdoers want their ill-gotten gains back. 33m. SHOULDER ARMS (1918) Enlisted during the First World War, Charlie discovers the hard life of the trenches and the dangers of combat. 37m.  SUNNYSIDE (1919) Charlie is a farm laborer who’ll try anything to win over his pretty neighbor, but ends up spending a lot of time in dreamland. 30m.•  SHOWTIMES: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 NOON; MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13  7PM; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16  9PM. UPCOMING: MARCH 10, 12, 15     A DAY’S PLEASURE,     THE KID APRIL     THE IDLE CLASS,     PAYDAY,     THE PILGRIM MAY     A WOMAN OF PARIS                                  A Woman of Paris JUNE     THE CIRCUS JULY     CITY LIGHTS AUGUST     MODERN TIMES SEPTEMBER     THE GREAT DICTATOR OCTOBER     THE GOLD RUSH NOVEMBER     MONSIEUR VERDOUX DECEMBER     LIMELIGHT JANUARY 2013     A KING IN NEW YORK •Synosis WB and MK2