FLAMINGO ROAD

$15.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Time: 1:00pm

About the Film:

Originally released April 28, 1949

Director Michael Curtiz and Joan Crawford repurpose the Mildred Pierce rags-to-riches theme with Joan portraying a carnival cooch dancer stuck in a small Southern town. She runs afoul of brazenly corrupt Sheriff Titus Semple (a delightfully malignant Sydney Greenstreet) after having an affair with his milquetoast deputy (Zachary Scott), whom Greenstreet is grooming for the governor’s mansion. When Crawford hooks up with hard-driving ward heeler Dan Reynolds (David Brian), Greenstreet’s political rival, a juicy showdown is imminent. This rousing melodrama was Curtiz’s final and most successful release from his short-lived independent production company.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

THE LAST SEDUCTION

$17.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

35mm print courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Time: 4:00pm

About the Film:

Originally released October 26, 1994

Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) is the most compelling and cold-hearted contemporary version of the alluring and avaricious femmes fatales that dominated forties noir. After stealing ill-gotten loot from her shady husband (Bill Pullman), Bridget hides out in a small town where she shamelessly manipulates a smitten rube (Peter Berg) into her increasingly devious and sinister plans. Originally intended as “Skinemax” softcore **** (although there’s far too much plot for that!), the picture got a jolt of class and complexity when Fiorentino demanded the lead. Inspired, director Dahl and his fantastic cast turned the film into a neo-noir joyride: unabashedly sexy, scathingly cynical, startlingly incorrect, and dryly hilarious.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

OUT OF THE PAST / THE KILLING

$17.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Time: 7:00pm

Schedule:

7:00pm - Introduction

7:10pm - OUT OF THE PAST

8:50pm - Intermission

9:00pm - THE KILLING

Start times are approximate.

About the Film:

OUT OF THE PAST, Dir. Jacques Tourneur, 97 Min, Park Circus, USA

Originally released November 13, 1947

Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas vie for the honor of being betrayed by Jane Greer, the most desirable of devil dolls, in this quintessential noir masterpiece. A grubby private eye (Mitchum) is hired by a sleek gangster (Douglas) to rein in his fugitive frail (Greer). Complications ensue when dick falls for dame, hard. The serpentine plot, which ricochets from Manhattan to Mexico to Frisco to Tahoe, is spiced with some of the wittiest wisecracks ever, with every step of the dizzying adventure rendered in high noir style by Tourneur, art director Albert D’Agostino, and cameraman Nicholas Musuraca. Equal measures of poetry, poignancy, and hardboiled fatalism. The definitive film noir? You be the judge.

FORMAT: 35mm

THE KILLING, Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 85 Min, Park Circus, USA

Originally released May 19, 1956

You’ll think you’ve died and gone to hardboiled heaven. Or is it hell? Kubrick was only twenty-eight when he unleashed this twisty and twisted masterpiece, studded with diamond-hard dialogue courtesy of pulp master Jim Thompson. Sterling Hayden arranges a clockwork racetrack robbery only to learn the hard way what happens to best-laid plans. Kubrick showed his noir bona fides by casting genre stalwarts Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor, Coleen Gray, Ted de Corsia, Jay C. Flippen—and unforgettable wild man, Timothy Carey. The film’s backtracking narrative so befuddled United Artists that the studio dumped THE KILLING on the bottom half of a double bill, oblivious to the talent that would make Stanley Kubrick the most visionary director of his era.

FORMAT: DCP