Lady Windermere’s Fan with Forbidden Paradise
Lady Windermere’s Fan with Forbidden Paradise
Lady Windermere’s Fan | Los Angeles Restoration Premiere
Upon returning to London, the dazzlingly indiscreet Mrs. Erlynne (Irene Rich) becomes entangled in the affairs of the Windermere house, already being meddled with by charming Lord Darlington (Ronald Colman). Ernst Lubitsch’s pitch-perfect Oscar Wilde adaptation revels in the expressivity of the human face and the suggestive, telling detail revealed through witty editing. Largely shot on imposing sets or backlot streets, the film’s notable location sequence takes place at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack.
Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.
Note by Academy Museum Senior Director, Film Programs Bernardo Rondeau.
DIRECTED BY: Ernst Lubitsch. WRITTEN BY: Julien Josephson. WITH: Irene Rich, Ronald Colman, May McAvoy. 1925. 94 min. USA. Tinted and Toned. English intertitles. DCP. Restored by the Museum of Modern Art with the financial support of Matthew & Natalie Bernstein.
Forbidden Paradise | Los Angeles Restoration Premiere
The only American film that German-born director Ernst Lubitsch made with Polish-born star Pola Negri, a fellow European transplant, Forbidden Paradise is a sumptuous costume comedy about the seductions and infidelities of Empress Catherine the Great (Negri) as she tries to ward off a revolution at her doorstep. Staged against expressive, detail-laden sets designed by Hans Dreier (subsequent 22-time Oscar nominee for Art Direction), Forbidden Passage is lavishly madcap. Newly restored by the Museum of Modern Art from two incomplete nitrate prints and preservation negatives, this is the most comprehensive version of Lubitsch’s film in a century.
Note by Academy Museum Senior Director of Film Programs Bernardo Rondeau.
DIRECTED BY: Ernst Lubitsch. WRITTEN BY: Agnes Christine Johnston, Hans Kraly. WITH: Pola Negri, Rod La Rocque, Adolphe Menjou. 1924. 73 min. USA. Tinted and Toned. English intertitles. DCP. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. Orchestral score compiled and edited by Gillian B. Anderson, based on the music cue sheet issued for the film’s original release. Score conducted by Robert Israel.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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