Cluny Brown

NEW 35mm PRINT! ► Screening here in a newly struck 35mm print (and not available on DVD), Cluny Brown, released in 1946, was the final completed film by Golden Age Hollywood great Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, To Be or Not to Be), master of the suave, sophisticated comedy of manners and sexual mores. The renowned “Lubitsch touch” is much in evidence in this winning gem, a witty dissection of the British class system and snobbery set in England on the eve of WWII. Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer charm in the leads. She’s a vivacious plumber’s niece with an aptitude for sinks, drains and pipes herself. He’s an eccentric Czech academic and anti-fascist on the run from Hitler. When the two find themselves together in an upper-crust country manner — he’s a guest, she’s a housemaid — their free-spirited, unconventional ways shake up staid and stuffy English society. There’s plenty of naughty innuendo in the film’s use of plumbing references. The supporting cast is a jolly delight. “Forget double, the entendres here are practically quadruple” (Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York). “Mischievous satire . . . A lovely, easygoing comedy full of small surprising touches” (Pauline Kael). B&W, 35mm. 100 mins.

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Additional Screenings
Thursday, April 21 - 7:00pm + 9:00pm
Friday, April 22 - 4:30pm
Sunday, April 24 - 4:30pm
Monday, April 25 - 8:15pm
Wednesday, April 27 - 9:00pm

NOTE: Regular admission prices in effect, and membership requirement for those 18+, for the evening screenings of Cluny Brown on April 21, 22, 24, 25, 27.