The lady with the Torch - 100 year Columbia Pictures

About Columbia Pictures

Idiosyncratic studio Columbia Pictures was a place where art and commerce, the system and the artist, came together in brilliance, and where a relatively free atmosphere prevailed. The logo of the lady with the torch may look very patriotic, but in Columbia’s films American values are regularly dissected and criticised. Sympathies lie firmly with ordinary people struggling to save themselves from the corrupt excesses of the system.

From well known classics to film noir

The programme in Eye presents well-known classics such as Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934) and Orson Welles’ film noir The Lady from Shanghai (1947, with Rita Hayworth) alongside rediscoveries and surprising, seldom-screened B movies, most of which in new, 4K-restored versions.

Films, Talks & Events

Check the website for the complete programme, starting- and end times.