It’s been called everything from an outright disaster to “the weirdest great movie ever made.” Like The Magnificent Ambersons before it, Orson Welles’s glittering 1947 thriller was subject to studio cuts, but what remains of The Lady from Shanghai is remarkable enough. Made as the director was breaking up with Rita Hayworth, this is both a film noir and a divorce case writ large, steeped in irony, self-loathing, love, hate, fascination, recrimination, mistrust, and sexual longing. (Run time: 1 hour, 27 minutes)
After the film, join us for a talkback with film scholar and head of public programs, Will Schmenner.
Image: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
It’s been called everything from an outright disaster to “the weirdest great movie ever made.” Like The Magnificent Ambersons before it, Orson Welles’s glittering 1947 thriller was subject to studio cuts, but what remains of The Lady from Shanghai is remarkable enough. Made as the director was breaking up with Rita Hayworth, this is both a film noir and a divorce case writ large, steeped in irony, self-loathing, love, hate, fascination, recrimination, mistrust, and sexual longing. (Run time: 1 hour, 27 minutes)
After the film, join us for a talkback with film scholar and head of public programs, Will Schmenner.
Image: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
