The final pieces of the Cinema Reborn 2022 jigsaw puzzle fall into place. Two films from Hollywood’s Golden Age – a brilliant 30s pre-code comedy from Ernst Lubitsch and a famous 40s film noir from Orson Welles starring the director and Rita Hayworth.
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932)
“TROUBLE IN PARADISE IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ERNST LUBITSCH’S GREATEST FILM” – FILMSITE
Made only three years after the introduction of the “talkies”, this sophisticated jewel-thief romantic comedy feels like it could have been made yesterday.
Set in Venice and Paris, it’s all evening dress, opera, jewelry, nightclubs, butlers, grand hotels and a suave, sexy triangle between two thieves and the perfume company executive they plan to rob.
Exquisitely directed by Lubitsch, there isn’t a false note in the entire film.
Introduced by Ivan Cerecina, Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney
To read Geoff Gardner’s Program Notes, find links to bookings and information about session times click on this link to the CINEMA REBORN WEBSITE
To make a booking (there are two screenings, evening and afternoon) on the Ritz website CLICK HERE
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947)
“AS TANGLED AND INGENIOUS AS ANY OF WELLES’S CONJURING TRICKS” – THE INDEPENDENT (UK)
Orson Welles takes on film noir with this story of murder, fraud, deceit, betrayal and, of course, a femme fatale.
Travelling from New York, to a yacht on route through the Caribbean to Acapulco, up to San Francisco’s Chinatown and finally into a playground amusement park, Welles plays an Irish seaman drawn into this noir chaos by a mysterious woman (Rita Hayworth).
Introduced by David Stratton, Film critic, Television presenter and historian
To read David Hare’s Program Notes, find links to bookings and information about session times click on this link to the CINEMA REBORN WEBSITE
To make a booking on the Ritz website (there are two screenings, evening and afternoon) book here BOOK HERE
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