Pandora and the Flying Dutchman Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Albert Lewin, Country: United Kingdom, Release: 1951, Runtime: 122
We’re proud to have Martin Scorsese with us to introduce this very special screening. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman has been painstakingly restored to its original Technicolor glory.
This remarkable romance, a reworking of the tale of the Flying Dutchman set on the Spanish coast, is as visually exquisite as filmmaking gets. Director Albert Lewin was one of the most unusual and distinctive artists to emerge in ’40s Hollywood, with a genuinely romantic sensibility. Pandora, designed by director-to-be Clive Donner and shot by the great Jack Cardiff, was conceived in deep dark reds, greens, blues and blacks, and it suggests the lustrous velvet folds in Titian or El Greco. And James Mason as Hendrik the Dutchman and Ava Gardner’s Pandora are beautiful subjects indeed, one of the cinema’s handsomest and most stirringly passionate couples.
Restored by George Eastman House in cooperation with The Douris Corporation with funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
This screening is made possible by The Film Foundation and American Express.
