The Lady from Shanghai will be screened during the Locarno Film Festival, August 7-18, 2024, in Switzerland.
The Orson Welles-directed thriller in which he starred with then-wife Rita Hayworth is part of the retrospective “The Lady with a Torch – A Centenary of Columbia Pictures.” It will be shown twice on August 11 at Piazza Grande, which boasts one of the largest screens in the world.
Locarno will present a 4K restoration of The Lady from Shanghai by MTI Film of a 4K scan off the original negative and shown on DCP. The Los Angeles-based company undertook the restoration of the 1947 film for its 70th anniversary in 2017. The audio was restored from a 35mm nitrate original soundtrack negative.
“The Lady with a Torch” retrospective will showcase a number of Columbia classics, including Twentieth Century from director Howard Hawks, Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and a new restoration of John Ford’s The Whole Town is Talking. It will also feature a pair of shorts starring The Three Stooges.
Columbia Pictures was founded by brothers Harry and Jack Cohn and friend Joe Brandt on January 10, 1924. After Frank Capra’s 1934 classic It Happened One Night swept the Academy Awards, Columbia Pictures established itself as an elite studio, responsible for numerous films from award-winners and timeless classics to pop-culture phenomena including: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, From Here to Eternity, On The Waterfront, Lawrence of Arabia, To Sir With Love, Taxi Driver, Tootsie, Ghostbusters, Boyz n the Hood, Groundhog Day, The Social Network, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood and more.
For details of the 2024 film festival, visit locarnofestival.ch.
The Lady From Shanghai was released on 4K Ultra HD on July 23 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It has previously been available on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray.
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