Debuting its bi-monthly members-only Arthouse Film Night Series, the Bosque Film Society presents Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 classic silent comedy MODERN TIMES March 8 at The Cliftex in Clifton
By BRETT VOSS
Bosque Film Society Founding Board President
CLIFTON – Adding a new film series presentation to the 2022 schedule, the Bosque Film Society cordially invites all members to attend its first-ever members-only ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8 at The Cliftex Theatre in Clifton.
Watch the silent era of film go out in style on the silver screen with the 1936 silent comedy MODERN TIMES featuring an introductory presentation by William Godby, the Bosque Film Society filmmaker-in-residence and founding board member.
The Arthouse Film Night Series will fill in the bi-monthly gaps left between the BFS’s original FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT SERIES as the society will now offer free movies classic movies to its members every month.
Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times is a 1936 American silent comedy film in which Chaplin’s iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film represents a commentary on the desperate employment and financial conditions many people faced during the Great Depression — conditions created, in Chaplin’s view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.
Regarded as the last great silent film, Modern Times represents the last time that Chaplin portrayed the Tramp character and the first time Chaplin’s voice is heard on film. The cast also includes Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin.
From thoughtful dramas to unconventional romances, these independent treasures from a variety of countries, primarily independent films, offer something deeper than the usual Hollywood movie. Aside from the classically-defined Arthouse films, the Bosque Film Society selections can include ground-breaking films of its time, underappreciated masterpieces and forgotten seldom-seen classics.
Arthouse films take aim at a niche market rather than a mass market audience, intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental. Not designed for mass appeal, Arthouse films are made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit, and contain unconventional or highly symbolic content.
Since this will be a private showing, BYOB will be allowed, and the theatre concession stand will be open for purchases. Although the event will be closed to the public, those wishing to become Bosque Film Society members Tuesday night will be admitted. So if you have any friends interested, be sure to bring them with you.
Upcoming ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT presentations will include: May 10 — Citizen Kane (1941); July 12 –The Seventh Seal (1957); Sept. 13 — Dr. Strangelove (1964); Nov. 8 – Day for Night (1973).
Upcoming FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT presentations will include: April 12 — Rear Window (1954); June 14 — Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid (1969); Aug. 9 — All That Jazz (1979); Oct. 11 — Out of Africa (1985); Dec. 13 — Christmas Party: White Christmas (1954).
