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    510.THE GENIUS OF COMEDY ON FILM: CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S THE GOLD RUSH

    510.THE GENIUS OF COMEDY ON FILM: CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S THE GOLD RUSH

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    Peter Josyph

     

    Often voted as Chaplin's masterwork, The Gold Rush follows the adventures of the Tramp—now the Prospector—and his friend Big Jim in the Alaskan Klondike during the Gold Rush. Blizzards, villains, a bear, and their own worst selves are some of the challenges facing the two men. The film, first released in 1925 and newly restored, contains some of Chaplin's most iconic scenes, including a bold sequence in the snowclad Sierra Nevada for which he used 600 extras, and an entire cabin teetering on the edge of a cliff. In the New York Times, Mordaunt Hall called it a comedy "with streaks of poetry, pathos, and tenderness." Chaplin said: "This is the picture I want to be remembered by."

     

    A lively discussion will follow the screening of this amazing piece of cinematic history.

     

    1-3:30 p.m.                                                                                                                   1 Session

    Thursday, November 6                                                                                                 Fee:  $40

     

     

    ABOUT THE LECTURER

    Peter Josyph is an actor, a painter, a photographer, an award-winning filmmaker, and he has published 13 books.

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    Peter Josyph

    Peter Josyph is an author, actor, director, and filmmaker whose films include: Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero; Acting Cormac McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thorton’s All the Pretty Horses; Shakespeare In New York: The Sonnets; and A Few Things Basquiat Did in School. His books include: Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; What One Man Said to Another, Talks with Richard Seltzer; and, The Wounded River, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. He also excels in literary and film criticism.

    Lecture Details

    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Thursday, 1:00-3:30 p.m.
    Date(s)
    Nov 06, 2025