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Monday
May 5th - 7:00 pm |
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'DARK PASSAGE'
1948 - Black & White |
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With:
Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, & Agnes Morehead |
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Direction & Script: Delmer Daves Story
by: David Goodis |
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Set in San
Francisco, Vincent Parry (Bogart), convicted wife murderer, escapes from
San Quentin and sets out to clear his name. It is a race against time,
as the police comb the city; a blackmailer tracks him, and the real
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The use of
first person P.O.V. ("point of view") is much more effective here than in the previous year's
"Lady in the Lake," although studio head Jack Warner was said to be very
unhappy with a star (Bogart) whose face cannot be seen until two thirds
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This is a classic example of full blown film
noir, a genre which is hard nail down. Dark Passage' has it
all,.. creepy atmosphere, a jaded story line and dysfunctional
characters, solid noir visual style with odd camera angles and imbalanced
framing and mixed with plenty of
psychological tension. Dark Passage is an great example of a well
balanced film noir displaying both solid noir content and visual style,
and that why we chose this to start this series. |
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Bogart and Bacall were real-life husband and wife when this films was
shot. Look for London born American character actor Houseley
Stevenson as a
nightmarish black market plastic surgeon, embellishing the Dark City
underbelly of 1940's San Francisco. |
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Film Introduction by Robert Marion
- Danger & Despair Knitting Circle Screenings
Director |
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Monday May 12th - 7:00 pm |
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'NIGHTMARE ALLEY'
1947 -
Black & White |
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With: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen
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Helen Walker & Mike Mazurki |
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Directed by Edmund Goulding
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Photography by: Lee Garmes
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(City Streets '31, Crime Without
Passion '34, Caught '49 & Misty '69) |
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Script by Jules Furthman |
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From the novel 'Nightmare Alley'
by Gresham William Lindsay |
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Stanton
Carlyle (Tyrone Power) sets out to swindle carnival psychic Zeena (Joan
Blondell) out of her performing secrets. But when Stanton accidentally
kills Zeena's alcoholic husband, Zeena needs a new assistant. Naturally,
Stanton betrays Zeena. He becomes involved with another woman and a new
scam. A story of human degredation set against a seedy carnival
backdrop. |
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Author Gresham William Lindsay who
published only 5 of his works, penned one of the great works of American
Noir literature with 'Nightmare Alley'. Gresham grew-up in
New York with his family, where he became fascinated by the sideshow at
Coney Island. After graduating from High School in Brooklyn in 1926,
Gresham drifted from job to job and found employment as a folk singer in
Greenwich Village. In 1937, Gresham joined the Spanish Civil War where
he served as a volunteer medic for the Loyalists. During the conflict,
he met former carnie sideshow employee, Joseph Daniel "Doc" Halliday,
and their long conversations inspired much of his work, particularly
Gresham's two books about the American carnival, the nonfiction Monster
Midway and the fictional 'Nightmare Alley'. Returning to the
United States in 1939, after a troubling period that involved a stay in
a tuberculosis ward and a failed suicide attempt, Gresham found work
editing true crime pulp magazines.
In 1962, Gresham's health took a turn for the worse, he was going
blind and suffering from cancer . On September 14, 1962, he checked into
the Dixie Hotel, the same hotel he had hung out around when he wrote
Nightmare Alley over a decade earlier. There, he took his life with an
overdose of sleeping pills. His death went generally unnoticed by the
New York press, but for a mention by a bridge columnist. |
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Film
Introduction by Dark Marc -
Danger & Despair Knitting Circle Film Archivst |
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2 Films by Director
Nicholas Ray |
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Monday May 19th - 7:00 pm |
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'THEY LIVE BY NIGHT'
1948 - Black & White |
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With: Kathy O'Donnell,
Farley Granger, Howard De Silva |
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Live by Night" is a bleak non-urban noir that tells the story of a young
man, Arthur "Bowie" Bowers who is busted out of prison by two neer-do-good
fellow convicts. Soon afterwards he meets Catherine "Keechie" Mobley,
sister to one of the gangsters. Naturally, they fall in love, and he
dreams of going straight and clearing his name. But in the noir world,
redemption is rare and unlikely. Brilliant directing by Ray treats his
subjects sympathetically, and employs the first helicopter tracking
shot.
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Film Introduction by Joseph
Lim - San Francisco Academy of
Art Film Club Director |
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Tuesday
May 27th
- 7:00 pm (NOTE DAY CHANGE) |
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'IN
A LONELY PLACE' 1950 -
Black & White |
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With: Humphrey Bogart,
Gloria Grahame & Art Smith |
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Based on a
Dorothy Hughes novel, and starring Humphry Bogart as Dixon Steele, a
writer suspected of murder, and Gloria Grahame as Laurel, who falls
under Dix's spell and provides an alibi for murder. Considered to be one
of Bogart's finest performances. |
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Film Introduction by Robert
Marion - Danger & Despair
Knitting Circle Screenings Director |
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