HOLIDAY (1938)
Randwick Ritz, Sydney:
7:00 PM
Wednesday April 30
2:30 PM
Thursday May 1
Lido Cinemas, Melbourne:
4:25 PM
Sunday May 11
1:30 PM
Tuesday May 13
Rating: G
Duration: 95 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lew Ayres
Director: George Cukor
SYDNEY TICKETS ⟶
MELBOURNE TICKETS ⟶
7:00 PM
Wednesday April 30
2:30 PM
Thursday May 1
Lido Cinemas, Melbourne:
4:25 PM
Sunday May 11
1:30 PM
Tuesday May 13
Rating: G
Duration: 95 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lew Ayres
Director: George Cukor
SYDNEY TICKETS ⟶
MELBOURNE TICKETS ⟶
4K RESTORATION – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
“For sparkling wit and ineffable melancholy, Holiday … is simply nonpareil.” – Justin Chang, the Los Angeles Times
A nonconformist society girl finds a kindred spirit in her sister’s fiancé in George Cukor’s wistful and wonderful romantic comedy now restored in 4K. Johnny Case (Cary Grant), a self-made man who has laboured since early childhood, intends to take an extended sabbatical following his marriage to the upper-class Julia Seton (Doris Nolan). While Johnny is emphatically supported by Julia’s eccentric older sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn) and downtrodden brother Ned (Lew Ayres), his plan conflicts with the ambitions of the siblings’ tyrannical banker father (Henry Kolker).
In the same year the two actors were paired in Howard Hawks’ definitive screwball Bringing Up Baby, and two years before they would reunite with Cukor for The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn and Grant showcased their peerless chemistry and physicality in what is arguably their finest collaboration, and one of the greatest films of the 1930s.
“Often underrated by comparison with The Philadelphia Story (both are based on plays by Philip Barry), but even better because its glitteringly polished surface is undermined by veins of real feeling, it is one of Cukor's best films.” – Tom Milne
“I love it not just for its wit and its tenderness, but for its ruthlessness.” – Stephanie Zacharek
Introduced by Jane Mills at Ritz Cinemas and by Philippa Hawker at Lido Cinemas
“For sparkling wit and ineffable melancholy, Holiday … is simply nonpareil.” – Justin Chang, the Los Angeles Times
A nonconformist society girl finds a kindred spirit in her sister’s fiancé in George Cukor’s wistful and wonderful romantic comedy now restored in 4K. Johnny Case (Cary Grant), a self-made man who has laboured since early childhood, intends to take an extended sabbatical following his marriage to the upper-class Julia Seton (Doris Nolan). While Johnny is emphatically supported by Julia’s eccentric older sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn) and downtrodden brother Ned (Lew Ayres), his plan conflicts with the ambitions of the siblings’ tyrannical banker father (Henry Kolker).
In the same year the two actors were paired in Howard Hawks’ definitive screwball Bringing Up Baby, and two years before they would reunite with Cukor for The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn and Grant showcased their peerless chemistry and physicality in what is arguably their finest collaboration, and one of the greatest films of the 1930s.
“Often underrated by comparison with The Philadelphia Story (both are based on plays by Philip Barry), but even better because its glitteringly polished surface is undermined by veins of real feeling, it is one of Cukor's best films.” – Tom Milne
“I love it not just for its wit and its tenderness, but for its ruthlessness.” – Stephanie Zacharek
Introduced by Jane Mills at Ritz Cinemas and by Philippa Hawker at Lido Cinemas
THE RESTORATION
The 4k restoration was
completed in 2019 by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The original sources
included a nitrate dupe negative and a nitrate print, both wet-gate scanned in
4k at Cineric, Inc., New York. As a result of the significant damage in the sources
(heavy scratches, missing footage, and printed in damage) elements were
conformed using the best image quality from the two sources. Conform and
color correction were completed at Roundabout Entertainment, Santa Monica, by
Senior Colorist, Sheri Eisenberg. Digital restoration was completed at Prasad,
Inc in Burbank, CA, with additional restoration by Prime Focus, Burbank. Audio
restoration was completed by Audio Mechanics, Burbank, using the original
variable density mono sound track negative. Supervised
by Rita Belda for SPE.
Director: George Cukor; Production Company: Columbia Pictures; Producer: Everett Riskin; Script: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sydney Buchman based on a play by Philip Barry; Photography: Franz Planer; Editor: Al Clark, Otto Meyer; Production Design: Stephen Goosson; Costumes: Robert Kalloch; Music: Sidney Cutner
Cast: Cary Grant (Johnny Case), Katharine Hepburn (Linda Seton), Doris Nolan (Julia Seton), Lew Ayres (Edward ‘Ned’ Seton), Henry Kolker (Edward Seton Sr), Edward Everett Horton (Professor Nick Potter), Jean Dixon (Susan Potter), Binnie Barnes (Laura Cram), Henry Daniell (Seton Cram)
USA| 1938 | 95 Mins | 4K DCP | B&W| English | G
Director: George Cukor; Production Company: Columbia Pictures; Producer: Everett Riskin; Script: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sydney Buchman based on a play by Philip Barry; Photography: Franz Planer; Editor: Al Clark, Otto Meyer; Production Design: Stephen Goosson; Costumes: Robert Kalloch; Music: Sidney Cutner
Cast: Cary Grant (Johnny Case), Katharine Hepburn (Linda Seton), Doris Nolan (Julia Seton), Lew Ayres (Edward ‘Ned’ Seton), Henry Kolker (Edward Seton Sr), Edward Everett Horton (Professor Nick Potter), Jean Dixon (Susan Potter), Binnie Barnes (Laura Cram), Henry Daniell (Seton Cram)
USA| 1938 | 95 Mins | 4K DCP | B&W| English | G