Chaplin movie to get special screening

Charlie Chaplin’s Oscar-winning silent film The Circus will be presented, with musical accompaniment by the Robert Israel Orchestra, at a special screening next month.

The screening, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Los Angeles, celebrates the Academy’s 75th anniversary.

It honours Chaplin, who was the recipient of the first Honorary Academy Award.

At the first Academy Awards(R) presentation on May 16, 1929, Chaplin was awarded the special statuette for “versatility and genius” in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

The newly restored print of the classic film, which stars Chaplin as a tramp who falls in love with a circus owner’s acrobatic daughter, comes to the screen as part of the Academy Standards Screening Series.

A later score, written for the film by Chaplin himself in 1967, will be performed live by the Robert Israel Orchestra, a 25-piece ensemble with a full complement of strings, woodwind, brass and percussion.