The Gold Rush, 1925

 

Silent Movie Week 2025

 

Jul 30–Aug 5, 2025

MoMA

 

The Museum of Modern Art presents the third annual Silent Movie Week, featuring seven recent silent film restorations screened over seven consecutive evenings. The series opens with MoMA’s digital restoration of Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927), presented with live musical accompaniment in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (weather permitting) and co-organized with Neue Galerie New York.

 

As a commercial medium, silent film lasted for only about 30 years, but those 30 years represented a creative explosion with few parallels in the art world. It’s estimated that only 20 percent of the films made between 1895 and 1930 survive, and yet the work of preserving and restoring the remaining films continues. MoMA is one of several archives around the world with significant silent film holdings, and this annual series invites audiences to enjoy some of the recent restoration work done by MoMA and colleagues across the globe.

 

This year’s lineup also features recent restorations of Charles Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), Karel Lamač’s Miss Saxophone (Saxophon-Susi) (1928), Karl Grune’s The Street (1923), Herbert Brenon’s Beau Geste (1926), John M. Stahl’s Memory Lane (1926), and Frank Borzage’s Street Angel (1928).

 

Organized by Dave Kehr, Curator, and Steve Macfarlane, Department Assistant, Department of Film.

 

 

#Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City). 1927. Directed by Walter Ruttmann

With musical accompaniment from Ben Model

Wed, Jul 30, 8:00 p.m.

 

 

#The Gold Rush. 1925. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin

Thu, Jul 31, 7:00 p.m.

 

#Beau Geste. 1926. Directed by Herbert Brenon

With an introduction from Heather Linville (Library of Congress); piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin

Fri, Aug 1, 7:00 p.m.

 

#Saxophon-Susi (Miss Saxophone).1928. Directed by Karel Lamač

With musical accompaniment by Ben Model

Sat, Aug 2, 7:00 p.m.

 

#Street Angel. 1928. Directed by Frank Borzage

With piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura

Sun, Aug 3, 4:00 p.m.

 

#Die Straße (The Street). 1923. Directed by Karl Grune

With piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin

Mon, Aug 4, 7:00 p.m.

 

#Memory Lane. 1926. Directed by John M. Stahl

With piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura

Tue, Aug 5, 7:00 p.m.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5833