“Back to the Klondike: Chaplin’s The Gold Rush Shines Again”

Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Loren­zo Bur­lan­do cap­tured the atmos­phere at Piaz­za Mag­giore dur­ing the 100th anniver­sary screen­ing of The Gold Rush, pre­sent­ed by Roy Export SAS (the Chap­lin Office) and mk2 Films, in a new 4K restora­tion by the Cinete­ca di Bologna and L’Immagine Ritrova­ta show­cased at Il Cin­e­ma Ritrova­to 2025. 

The screen­ing took place on 26 June 2025—the exact date of the film’s orig­i­nal pre­miere 100 years ago. Thou­sands gath­ered in the square as Chaplin’s time­less clas­sic returned to the big screen, its appeal undi­min­ished.

The live score, adapt­ed, arranged and con­duct­ed by Tim­o­thy Brock, was bril­liant­ly per­formed by the Orches­tra of the Teatro Comu­nale di Bologna — a remark­able ren­di­tion of the score Chap­lin com­posed for the 1942 reis­sue.

Gian Luca Farinel­li, direc­tor of the Cinete­ca di Bologna, intro­duced the film, pre­sent­ing a stereo­scop­ic image of the Chilkoot Pass, one of Chaplin’s key inspi­ra­tions for The Gold Rush.

Car­men Chap­lin, her hus­band Ashim Bhal­la, and their daugh­ter Uma were in atten­dance, pic­tured along­side Arnold Lozano, direc­tor of the Chap­lin Office.

Thanks to the BFI Nation­al Archive, Black­hawk Films and the Lob­ster Films Col­lec­tion, Das Bun­de­sarchiv, Fil­mote­ca de Catalun­ya, George East­man Muse­um, and MoMA for their con­tri­bu­tions to the restora­tion.

Spe­cial thanks to Cinete­ca di Bologna and L’Immagine Ritrova­ta, and to mk2 for their con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion.
Viva il cin­e­ma, viva Char­lot!

New Trail­er and World­wide Release for The Gold Rush Cen­ten­ni­al

Cel­e­brate 100 years of The Gold Rush – watch the offi­cial trail­er:

To mark the 100th anniver­sary of The Gold Rush, the new­ly restored 4K ver­sion of Char­lie Chaplin’s silent clas­sic will be released in cin­e­mas world­wide on June 26, 2025 — exact­ly a cen­tu­ry after its orig­i­nal pre­miere at the Egypt­ian The­atre in Los Ange­les.

Fol­low­ing its pres­ti­gious open­ing at Cannes Clas­sics 2025, the film has already been con­firmed for over 500 screen­ings in 70 coun­tries, coor­di­nat­ed by mk2 films with the sup­port of the Chap­lin Office.

Among the many inter­na­tion­al high­lights of the cen­te­nary cel­e­bra­tions is a spe­cial open-air screen­ing in Piaz­za Mag­giore, Bologna, with live accom­pa­ni­ment by the Orches­tra of the Teatro Comu­nale di Bologna, con­duct­ed by Tim­o­thy Brock, dur­ing this year’s Il Cin­e­ma Ritrova­to Fes­ti­val.

The new 4K restora­tion, over­seen by Cinete­ca di Bologna and L’Immagine Ritrova­ta, was car­ried out with the sup­port of mk2 Films and Roy Export S.A.S. It will also be the sub­ject of a ded­i­cat­ed pan­el at Il Cin­e­ma Ritrova­to: Restora­tions Always in Progress: Gold Rush 1925, The Full Frame Chimera with Cecil­ia Cen­cia­rel­li (Cinete­ca di Bologna), Arnold Lozano (Direc­tor of Roy Export S.A.S.), Madeleine Lourenço and Frédérique Rouault (mk2 Films), and Ele­na Tam­mac­caro (L’Immagine Ritrova­ta)

Watch below as Arnold Lozano speaks at Cannes about the new release:

The Chap­lin Office and mk2 Films are excit­ed to announce that a new­ly restored 4K ver­sion of Char­lie Chaplin’s silent-era clas­sic The Gold Rush will have its world pre­miere at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val, launch­ing the Cannes Clas­sics sec­tion on May 13, ahead of a coor­di­nat­ed glob­al cen­ten­ni­al release.

The 1925 masterpiece—written, direct­ed, pro­duced by and star­ring Chap­lin as the icon­ic Tramp—will screen on the Croisette near­ly 100 years to the day after its orig­i­nal pre­miere at the Egypt­ian The­ater in Los Ange­les. The Cannes show­ing marks the start of a coor­di­nat­ed inter­na­tion­al roll­out, with over 250 screen­ings sched­uled across 70 coun­tries on June 26, exact­ly one cen­tu­ry after the film’s debut.