

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Cinema Classics Seminar: MODERN TIMES (1936)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 18 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Mon, 18 Aug, 2025 at 09:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Monday, August 18, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm  
Instructor: Paul McEwan, Ph.D., Muhlenberg College

Among the handful of films for which the expression “timeless classic” is not hyperbole, Charlie Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES has remained popular with audiences for nearly a century, with its commentary on the dehumanizing nature of technology is as relevant as ever. Of course, Chaplin’s pathos, romance, and humanity were as important to his appeal as his social commentary. There is no shortage of that here, as The Tramp continually tries to see past his own limited circumstances to help others. We also see the physical comedy that made Chaplin among the most famous humans in history, a performer beyond language whose work was comprehensible in every corner of the globe. 

Released in 1936, the film was something of a last hurrah for the silent era that Chaplin had dominated. Films had already been talking for nearly a decade, but Chaplin realized that the magic of The Tramp character would be broken in a normal talkie, so he sticks to tradition as much as possible. This becomes part of the theme of the film, as he finds himself a man out of time, carried away by technological forces he can’t control. It is rare that a film ends up being praised by institutions as disparate as the Library of Congress, Cahiers du Cinema, and the Vatican, but this is one of the rare movies with that trifecta. It is a film very much of its time that acknowledges what is human in every one of us.
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- **Event Categories**: entertainment, workshops, performances, comedy
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://brynmawrfilm.org/event/cinema-classics-seminar-modern-times-2/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=bryn+mawr-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Bryn Mawr
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute
- **lat**: 40.021544857033
- **long**: -75.319098988988
- **full address**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W Lancaster Ave,Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States

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- **organizer**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute (https://allevents.in/org/bryn-mawr-film-institute/25953683)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 18 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W Lancaster Ave,Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bryn Mawr Film Institute
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, workshops, performances, comedy
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