Sunday, November 13, 2016, 2 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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The Kid
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A Dog’s Life
(Charles Chaplin, US 1918, 33 min., 35mm)
The Kid
(Charles Chaplin, US 1921, 53 min., 35mm)
Dryden Kids. The Kid, Chaplin’s first full-length feature, promised “a smile—and, perhaps, a tear.” The most Victorian of films, The Kid portrays the full dimensions of childhood’s terrors, poverty’s strain, and the dreamy hopes that transcend both. Jackie Coogan shot to stardom as the title brat, an orphan adopted by Chaplin and initiated into petty crime and tomfoolery. One of the most moving and funniest films of all times. A Dog’s Life is a film with the same idea, but with a dog instead of a kid.