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==Critical reception== [[File:The gold rush 14.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Big Jim and the Lone Prospector in the wobbling cabin]] Critics generally praised the original 1925 release of ''The Gold Rush''. [[Mordaunt Hall]] wrote in ''The New York Times:'' {{blockquote|Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness. It is the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures, as it has more thought and originality than even such masterpieces of mirth as ''[[The Kid (1921 film)|The Kid]]'' and ''[[Shoulder Arms]]''.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mordaunt Hall|url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?_r=1&title1=&title2=Gold%20Rush%2C%20The&reviewer=MORDAUNT%20HALL.&v_id=20145&pdate=19250817&oref=slogin|title=The Gold Rush (review)|work=The New York Times|date=August 17, 1925|access-date=November 3, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405163628/http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?_r=1&title1=&title2=Gold%20Rush,%20The&reviewer=MORDAUNT%20HALL.&v_id=20145&pdate=19250817&oref=slogin|archive-date=April 5, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>}} ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' also published a rave review, saying that it was "the greatest and most elaborate comedy ever filmed, and will stand for years as the biggest hit in its field, just as ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' still withstands the many competitors in the dramatic class."<ref>{{cite journal |date=July 1, 1925 |title=Film Reviews |url=https://variety.com/1925/film/reviews/the-gold-rush-1200409632/ |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |location=New York |publisher=Variety, Inc. |page=22 |access-date=November 13, 2014 }}</ref> ''[[The New Yorker]]'' published a mixed review, believing that the dramatic elements of the film did not work well alongside Chaplin's familiar slapstick:{{blockquote|One might be given to expect wonders of Gold Rush burlesque with the old Chaplin at the receiving end of the Klondike equivalent of custard. But one is doomed to disappoint, for Chaplin has seen fit to turn on his onion juices in a [[Pierrot]]'s endeavor to draw your tears.... Instead of the rush of tears called for, one reaches for his [[glycerol|glycerine]] bottle.... We do not wish to deride Chaplin. He is as deft as ever and far and away a brilliant screen master. He has made a serviceable picture in ''The Gold Rush'' but it seems that he is not as funny as he once was.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=August 22, 1925 |title=Critique |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |location=New York |publisher=F-R Publishing Company | page=17 }}</ref>}} Nevertheless, ''The New Yorker'' included ''The Gold Rush'' in its year-end list of the ten best films of 1925.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Shane |first=Theodore |date=December 26, 1925 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |location=New York |publisher=F-R Publishing Company | page=29 }}</ref> At the 1958 [[Expo 58|Brussels World Fair]], critics rated it the second greatest film in history, behind only [[Sergei Eisenstein]]'s ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]''. In 1992, ''The Gold Rush'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aScOAAAAIBAJ&pg=2213,2097601&hl=en|title = 25 American films are added to the National Film Registry|date = December 7, 1992|work = The Prescott Courier|access-date = February 20, 2016}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |website=Library of Congress, Washington, DC|access-date=April 29, 2020}}</ref> Chaplin biographer [[Jeffrey Vance]] considers ''The Gold Rush'' to be Chaplin's greatest work of the silent-film era. He writes: "''The Gold Rush'' is arguably his greatest and most ambitious silent film; it was the longest and most expensive comedy produced up to that time. The film contains many of Chaplin's most celebrated comedy sequences, including the boiling and eating of his shoe, the dance of the rolls, and the teetering cabin. However, the greatness of ''The Gold Rush'' does not rest solely on its comedy sequences but on the fact that they are integrated so fully into a character-driven narrative. Chaplin had no reservations about the finished product. Indeed, in the contemporary publicity for the film, he is quoted, 'This is the picture that I want to be remembered by.'"<ref>Vance, Jeffrey (2003). ''Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema''. New York: Harry N. Abrams, p. 154. {{ISBN|0810945320}}.</ref> The Japanese filmmaker [[Akira Kurosawa]] cited ''The Gold Rush'' as one of his favorite films.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Thomas-Mason |title=From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ |website=Far Out |date=January 12, 2021 |publisher=Far Out Magazine |access-date=10 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Akira Kurosawa's Top 100 Movies! | url = http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100327124349/http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | archive-date = 27 March 2010 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists: * 1998: [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies]] – #74<ref>{{cite web|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 17, 2016}}</ref> * 2000: [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs]] – #25<ref>{{cite web|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 17, 2016}}</ref> * 2007: [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – #58<ref>{{cite web|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 17, 2016}}</ref> ''[[The Village Voice]]'' ranked ''The Gold Rush'' at No. 49 in its Top 250 "Best Films of the Century" list in 1999, based on a poll of critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/take/one/full_list.php3?category=10 |title=Take One: The First Annual Village Voice Film Critics' Poll |access-date=27 July 2006 |year=1999 |work=The Village Voice |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826201343/http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/take/one/full_list.php3?category=10 |archive-date=26 August 2007}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' voted it at No.15 on their list of ''100 Greatest Movies of All Time''.<ref>{{cite web|title = Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time|url = http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html|publisher = [[Filmsite.org]]|access-date = 19 January 2009|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140331185517/http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html|archive-date = 31 March 2014|df = dmy-all}}</ref> The film was voted at No. 97 on the list of "100 Greatest Films" by the prominent French magazine ''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]'' in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmdetail.com/2008/11/23/cahiers-du-cinemas-100-greatest-films/|title=Cahiers du cinéma's 100 Greatest Films|date=23 November 2008}}</ref> In the [[The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012|2012]] ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' poll, it was ranked the 91st-greatest film ever made in the directors' poll.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors|title=Directors' Top 100|year=2012|journal=[[Sight & Sound]]|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209010504/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors|archive-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> In 2015, ''The Gold Rush'' ranked 17th on [[BBC]]'s "100 Greatest American Films" list, voted on by film critics from around the world.<ref>{{cite web|date=July 20, 2015|title=100 Greatest American Films|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916105535/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|archive-date=September 16, 2016|access-date=July 21, 2015|work=BBC}}</ref> The film was voted at No. 25 on the list of ''The 100 greatest comedies of all time'' by a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the [[BBC]] in 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time|title=The 100 greatest comedies of all time|date=2017-08-22|website=BBC Culture|access-date=2017-09-08}}</ref>
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