The Shop Around the Corner
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch
USA, 1940, English, 99mins, DCP
Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan
With the delightful air of almost Shakespearean farce, Lubitsch’s witty adaptation of Miklós László’s Hungarian stage play is justly regarded as one of Hollywood’s finest romantic comedies. Set in a small leather goods boutique in Budapest, Stewart and Sullavan are both charming as a pair of store clerks, whose escalating contempt for one another is undercut by the blossoming romance that unwittingly develops between them via passionate anonymous correspondences. The film sparkles with pithy banter and its playfully satirical dissection of high street consumerism.
23/1(Sun): Seminar with Joyce Yang and Ernest Chan
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-23 (Sun)
14:30Cancelled 2022-02-20 (Sun)
20:50
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
K11 Art House
Broadway Hollywood
Hong Kong Film Archive
Festival Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema
Cine Moko
MOViE MOViE
The Metroplex
the sky
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Arts Centre Shouson Theatre
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
The HKFYG Jockey Club Media 21
CINE FAN ONLINE
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Meet the audience
Post-screening discussion with the director
Post-screening talk
Assigned seating
Full House