Downtown Lawrence Film Noir Festival
When: Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007, 8 p.m.
Where: Parking Garage, 9th & New Hampshire
Cost: Free
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Outdoor, Film, Music (other)
Description: Downtown Lawrence Inc. is the sponsor of an outdoor summer film series highlighting Film Noir -- a cinematic genre with origins in the black-and-white Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. Such films often depict the world as inherently corrupt, posing moral quandries that play out via convoluted story lines with flashbacks and flashforwards (ie "Pulp Fiction" or "Memento"). The series kicks off June 7 with "In a Lonely Place," a Humphrey Bogart vehicle that made Time Magazine's All-Time 100 list with its portrayal of the pitfalls of celebrity via a cynical screenwriter accused of murder.
All films will be preceded by live music and screened at 9:15pm on the wall of the parking garage at 9th and New Hampshire. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets. FREE popcorn for the first 250 people.
Remaining screenings this season:
August 2 8:00pm Live music by Too Much Fun (film starts at 9:15)
THE BIG CLOCK
Ray Milland, Charles Laughton
Universal; Directed by John Farrow
Black and White; Not Rated; 95 minutes; 1948
In this first-rate thriller, the ace reporter for a crime magazine sets out to solve a murder and discovers that his powerful publisher did it. Framed for the crime, the reporter hides under the world's largest clock in the compelling climax to this film-noir classic.
September 6 8:00pm Live music by Billy Ebeling (film starts at 9:15)
CRISS CROSS
Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo
Universal Pictures; Directed by Robert Siodmak
Black and White; Not Rated; 87 minutes; 1949
This expertly knit, low-key thriller with a famous heist sequence tells of two crooks who pull off a robbery and then try to destroy each other.
PAST EVENTS:
June 7 8:00pm Live Music from Key West Jazz Quartet
(film starts at 9:15)
IN A LONELY PLACE
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame,
Frank Lovejoy, Robert Warwick
TriStar Pictures; Directed by Nicholas Ray
Black and White; Not Rated; 93 minutes; 1950
Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart), a hot-headed Hollywood screenwriter who’d sooner use his fists than his reason, and his troubled neighbor Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame) are drawn together when he is questioned for murder and she confirms his alibi. But, Dixon’s volatile nature threatens to destroy their last chance at real love.
Event posted May 29, 2007
Last updated Sept. 6, 2007
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