Released: 4th December 2023. SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s 1969 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New audio commentary featuring Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
Interview with Chaplin from 1969
New interview with Chaplin’s son Eugene Chaplin
In the Service of the Story, a new program on the film’s visual effects and production design by film scholar Craig Barron
Chaplin Today: “The Circus,” a 2003 documentary on the film featuring filmmaker Emir Kusturica
Excerpted audio interview from 1998 with Chaplin musical associate Eric James
Unused café sequence with new score by composer Timothy Brock, and related outtakes with narration by comedy choreographer Dan Kamin
Newly discovered outtakes featuring the Tramp and the circus rider
Excerpts from the original recording session for the film’s opening song, “Swing Little Girl”
Footage of the film’s 1928 Hollywood premiere
Rerelease trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson
New cover by Mark Chiarello