The evening screening on Wednesday 29 July, will be introduced by journalist Darren Richman.
Carole Lombard and William Powell dazzle in this definitive screwball comedy by Gregory La Cava - a potent cocktail of romantic repartee and social critique. Irene (Lombard), an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a 'forgotten man' (Powell) - an apparent down-and-out drifter - at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household’s dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks that has never been bested. La Cava’s deft film was the first to garner Oscar nominations in all four acting categories, and it is one of Hollywood’s greatest commentaries on class and the social unrest of the Depression era. - The Criterion Collection
Darren Richman is a writer and journalist. He has a monthly column in Jewish News and his writing has appeared in The Guardian, Little White Lies and The New York Times. Between 2014 and 2018, he wrote a regular column for The Independent in which he championed obscure or forgotten films. He co-wrote My Life as Pat Sharp, a spoof memoir published by Little Brown. He had a romantic comedy feature film in development with Big Talk and he wrote and produced 84303, a documentary that aired on the History Channel on Holocaust Memorial Day. The film was selected as pick of the day in The Guardian and The Daily Mail.
