"One hundred years after Charlie Chaplin made dinner rolls dance and ate his shoe like it was a fine meal, The Gold Rush has been vividly brought back to life in a new restoration that premiered Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival. On the opening day of its 78th edition, Cannes debuted a 4K restoration of The Gold Rush, one of Chaplin's most beloved silent masterpieces."
"Years in the making, this Gold Rush pristinely restores Chaplin's Tramp to all his downtrodden glory. The 1925 Alaskan frontier comedy may be marking its centenary, but it looks bracingly fresh in the restoration carried out by La Cineteca di Bologna. The restoration was more complicated than most because it included an extensive search for any missing footage. In 1942, Chaplin edited the film and re-released it with sound effects, music and narration."
A 4K restoration of The Gold Rush premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on the opening day, included in a new day-one tradition for restored films established by festival director Thierry Fremaux. La Cineteca di Bologna carried out the years-long restoration, bringing Chaplin's Tramp back with pristine image quality. The restoration required an extensive search for missing footage to approximate the 1925 original rather than the 1942 re-release. Chaplin re-edited and re-released the film in 1942 with sound effects, music and narration, a version that received two Oscar nominations. The film follows a lone prospector pursuing food and companionship amid Alaskan slapstick and romance.
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