2025 marks the centennial of The Gold Rush, a landmark of silent cinema and one of Chaplin’s most enduring (and hilarious) achievements.
Throughout the year, we’ll be sharing stories, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and celebrations around the world to mark this milestone anniversary!
The Chaplin Office commissioned a special centennial logo by designer Erhan Ay. It’s available for all licensed screenings, products, and events related to The Gold Rush throughout 2025.
There’s more to come. We’re working closely with mk2 films and the Cineteca di Bologna on some exciting plans for the centenary year.
While it’s slightly too soon to share details, keep an eye on upcoming newsletters and our social media channels for announcements.
Criterion will release Charlie Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris (1923) on March 18, 2025. Pre-order today!
Remarkable for its psychological nuance and its boldly modern perspective on an independent woman’s search for fulfillment, Charlie Chaplin’s long-overlooked silent masterpiece A Woman of Paris is a revelation. Chaplin confounded 1923 audiences with this unexpected foray into serious drama, and by ceding the spotlight to his longtime screen partner Edna Purviance. She is captivating as the vivacious Marie St. Clair, a “woman of fate” who leaves behind her small-minded village for the glamour of Paris, where she finds herself at the center of a Jazz Age whirl of champagne soirees, luxurious pleasure-seeking, romance, and tragedy. Putting aside his Little Tramp persona, Chaplin’s second feature proved that, beyond being a comic genius, he was an artist of immense sensitivity and human understanding.
Disc Features
- New 4K digital restoration of the 1976 rerelease version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack featuring a score composed by director Charlie Chaplin
- Alternate score from 2005 created by conductor Timothy Brock, based on music by Chaplin, presented in uncompressed stereo
- Introduction by Chaplin scholar David Robinson
- New video essay by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
- Chaplin Today: “A Woman of Paris,” featuring interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Michael Powell
- Archive Commentary: About “A Woman of Paris,” a documentary by Arnold Lozano, managing director of Roy Export S.A.S.
- Excerpts from an audio interview with Chaplin Studios cameraman Roland Totheroh
- Deleted shots from the original 1923 film
- Archival footage
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson and notes by Brock on the 2005 score
Give a round of applause for Pop! Charlie Chaplin™!
Treat your Funko Pop! Icons collection to a laugh when you welcome the master of silent comedy to the stage in your home. The vinyl figure is approximately 4.5 inches tall, and licensed by the Chaplin merchandising company, Bubbles Incorporated SA.
Further to news reports of the recent sale of the Jim Henson Studio lot at the site of the former Charlie Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles, NPR member station LAist published a brief history of the former Charlie Chaplin Studios before the historic site starts a new chapter.
Arnold Lozano, managing director of the Chaplin Office, spoke with journalist Josie Huang about the Chaplin days.
As a run up to the Irish premiere of the 4K restoration of A WOMAN OF PARIS at the Irish Film Institute’s French Film Festival in Dublin on November 23, 2024, Luke Clancy interviewed Chaplin music specialist Timothy Brock in an insightful two-episode programme of Culture File on RTÉ Radio.
Journalist Timothy Rooks of Deutsche Welle visited the Chaplin Office in Paris and interviewed managing director Arnold Lozano about our work. Read the article : Charlie Chaplin: Keeping a comedy genius in business.
After more than 30 years of consulting and visiting film and photographic archives in approximately 20 countries for his documentary films, award-winning producer-director Serge Viallet has decided to share his contacts at some 80 archival centres in a series of special publications, “La mémoire du réel”, through French authors’ rights society, La Scam.
According to Viallet, in order to protect the “treasure of memory”, one must use it, question it, enrich it and share it. In 2015, Viallet carefully analyzed our archival footage shot by Sydney Chaplin during the filming of The Great Dictator in an episode of Mystères d’archives, a series of documentary shorts focusing on various important historical events captured on film.
The Chaplin Office is delighted to be in the first edition of Vilallet’s list of noteworthy archival institutions in “La mémoire du réel” which can be consulted on La Scam’s website.
