We are proudly presenting the brilliant new digital restoration of Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai, beginning Friday, May 2 (check back for showtimes). Orson Welles’ iconic film noir classic — about an Irish sailor (Welles) caught up in dangerous web of intrigue with a beautiful woman (Rita Hayworth) and her sinister husband (Everett Sloane) — has never looked so great.

Frame from THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, before restoration and after.

The restoration was assembled from 4K scans of the original nitrate negative, under the supervision of Sony’s aptly-named Grover Crisp, whose team has also completed restorations of Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver, Picnic and On the Waterfront, among others.

The Lady from Shanghai
NR – 87 min – Tickets $10 – Get tickets online

“For Grover Crisp, the executive vice-president of film restoration at Sony, the rerelease is the result of more than two decades of work. The camera negative for The Lady from Shanghai was in such a poor state that it was only thanks to recent developments in digital technology that they could successfully restore it.” — Welcoming Welles’s Lady from Shanghai to London – at last – The Guardian

“Central to the appeal of the film is the sensation of unease, of anxiety and dread, it so effortlessly conjures. Indeed, it suggests noir’s extreme: convolution pushed into abstraction, a plot so sinister it is impossible to comprehend.” – Calum Marsh, Village Voice