Just Announced, 4K Restoration
International Art House Series
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Carol Reed, Robert Krasker, and Graham Greene combine talents to create one of the finest films ever made, back in theaters as a 4K restoration in honor of its 75th anniversary.
Pulp writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in a bombed-out, post-war Vienna only to find his childhood friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) dead, perhaps by the hand of a mysterious “third man” present at the time of Harry’s death. Armed with his conspiracy theory, he quickly stumbles headfirst into Harry's shadowy underworld, butting up against interference from British police officer Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover Anna (Alida Valli). An instant critical and commercial sensation, The Third Man won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the British Film Academy's Best British Film award, and an Academy Award for Robert Krasker's expressionist, now iconic, black-and-white cinematography, and was also Oscar-nominated for Best Director. [104 min; film noir, drama; English]
"A film of brilliant pieces that coalesce into a superb whole...back in the best shape of its life." — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"One great scene after another! One great shot after another! I've seen it 50 times and it's still magic!" — Roger Ebert
"The supreme movie about the night world, the ultimate examples of that shining-streets-and-lurking-shadows 'realism.'" — David Denby
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