Slideshow
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
1:00 6:50
Sunday, June 11
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Starring Gene Tierney
(1943) Aged roué Don Ameche enters an Art Moderne Hell to demand admittance from “His Excellency” Laird Cregar – and then the flashbacks begin, from his upbringing by clueless upper-class parents to his (double) elopement with supremely understanding Gene Tierney. New DCP restoration. Approx. 112 min.
Reviews
“SUBLIME!”
– ARTFORUM
“Heaven Can Wait may be 73 years old, but it’s vibrant and alive, and teaching us anew the central language of film. This is a movie to listen to closely, but watch it just as intently. Lubitsch’s staging of the long stretches of dialogue seems straightforward enough, but the physical path from A to Z in a given scene turns out to be extraordinarily complex — once you start to notice — and so virtuosic you may want to applaud.”
– The Village Voice
“You’ll be shocked that something this witty got past the censors.”
– Time Out
“Lubitsch’s testament, full of grace, wisdom and romance.”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum
“Brought back a time when people really made good movies… Like hearing Louis Armstrong at his best.”
– James Agee