A lighthearted comedy about homelessness, suicide, disability, manic depression, substance abuse, handguns, bipolar disorder, drunk driving, robbery, rheumatic fever, and incarceration.

Ladies and gentlemen.....the 1930s!

Saw it on Criterion in a video store in California so I decided why not.

Only other Chaplin film I’ve seen is “The Gold Rush” and while it was good, it confirmed that silent film ain’t my thing. Regardless, I decided to check this out because everyone says it’s Chaplin’s best and maybe the best silent film ever made.

So yeah, I liked it a lot. I’m a sucker for something that blends drama and comedy together seamlessly and this is obviously one of those. Lots of scenes that I see myself revisiting in the future just for entertainment. It deals with some heavy subject matter in really interesting ways and when put into a historical context this thing is clearly very significant.

Silent film still isn’t my cup of tea, but this film made me appreciate Chaplin as an entertainer on a whole nother level. Glad I own it.

For my 300th film of the year, I decided to check out another Charlie Chaplin film and, once again, I was not disappointed. City Lights is incredibly charming, funny and touching with the kind of heartfelt ending I'll never forget. Brilliant stuff and I really look forward to checking out Modern Times next.

hello 911, a series of black and white moving images made me cry like a baby

One of Chaplin’s best, and that ending is up there with the best scenes in cinema pretty easily.

Fast 90 Jahre alt und dennoch aktueller denn je.
Das Leben in der Stadt mit seinen Höhen und Tiefen, Freundschaft und Verrat trifft auf die Liebe zu einer blinden Blumenverkäuferin, die es nicht schafft ihre Miete zu zahlen.
Viel Witz aber auch viel Inhalt.
Selbst wenn man mit dem Humor nichts anfangen kann, sind die Choreographien beeindruckend anzuschauen, die Handlung überschaubar aber mit viel Herz und mit vielen versteckten Botschaften.
Sehr beeindruckende Qualität.

A really great rom-com. Lots of great slapstick through out. 

Silent films aren’t necessarily my thing so I’m not gonna say that I loved every second of it but it has enough charm to be able to entertain you through much of the run time. All in due part to Chaplin as hell absolutely hams it up the entire time leading to some pretty Funny bits

to save her

Love is blind.

Charlie Chaplin's pure art is how he tell us stories that are in the same time make us smile and wet our eyes with tears. City Lights is a love story about how seeing 'the other' is important. In a touching way their love story starts just as the film ends; when the girl sees the tramp (Chaplin) for the first time.

One of the best silent films and one of the best comedies I've seen. All of the humor is so slick and choreographed, and the performance by Charlie Chaplin really ties the movie together.

95%

He's not that funny is he? Chaplin leans heavily on mute melodrama while filling the gaps with a string of gags. Not that the drama is all that great, it's the kind of plot that's designed to beg for tears but without anywhere near enough of **the rest of the drama** to actually justify empathy. Fairly uninteressting comedy too as Chaplin's neither physical enough for great slapstick, nor clever enough with his details to succeed in the toned down physical comedy. It's servicable, with multiple scenes successfully humouring me, but there's really nothing exceptional about it. It plays like a string of short films of varying quality loosely tied together by an overarching narrative. I suspect Chapling works better with less screen time, but I'll find out eventually.