Becky Sharp (USA) | (84 min; 1936; English)
Directors: Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman

Recipient of the Award for Best Colour Film, Venice Film Festival 1935; and Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 2019 .So much has been made of the fact that this was the first feature to be shot in three-strip Technicolor that it's often forgotten just how marvellous a film it actually is. A sophisticated, witty, and beautifully economical adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair as it charts its cunning heroine's meteoric rise in society, it rightly and explicitly treats her entirely amoral manipulation of sympathetic women and besotted men as an on-going performance of immense versatility.