Martin Scorsese’s Paradiso Outdoor Cinema

Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese truly is a man who needs no introduction, so we’re exceptionally proud to announce that he’ll be lending his vision for a unique collaboration in the form of our new Paradiso Outdoor Cinema.

Having directed some of the most celebrated and influential films in the history of cinema including Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Departed and last year’s worldwide box office smash Shutter Island to name but a few, Martin Scorsese has put together an amazing selection of some of his favourite films.

These will be screened from twilight on each evening of the festival in the Paradiso outdoor cinema, set in the stunning gardens created by Humphrey Repton, with an equally breathtaking backdrop of the secret estuary of the River Lynher and Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s striking railway viaduct.

So come and sit under the stars – or even in one of our specially designed Cadillac cars – to enjoy a series of double-bills chosen to complement the setting and the themes celebrated by the festival: train films, musicals, film noir and literary adaptations. In amongst the film screenings will be discussions of Martin Scorsese’s work, chaired by film writer and Scorsese enthusiast, Tom Shone.

Among the films selected are:

Murder on the Orient Express (1974, dir Sidney Lumet & starring Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman and Lauren Bacall) with North by Northwest (1959, dir Alfred Hitchcock & starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason)

The Leopard (1963, dir Luchino Visconti & starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale) with The River (1951, dir Jean Renoir & starring Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne and Esmond Knight)

The Narrow Margin (1952, dir Richard Fleischer & starring Charles McGraw, Jacqueline White and Marie Windsor) with Human Desire (1954, dir Fritz Lang & starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford)

The Red Shoes (1948, dir Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger & starring Moira Shearer, Marius Goring and Anton Walbrook) with All About Eve (1950, dir Joseph L Mankiewicz & starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders)