We made a change to the second feature of Friday night's #noircity21 program. We're unable to screen 'Four Against the World" (9:20) Instead, "Symphony for a Massacre" will screen. Tickets: http://noircity.com
Friday • January 26DOUBLE FEATURE
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
7:15 PM
A landmark in the history of crime movies and the progenitor of all heist films that followed. John Huston had provided the script for Raoul Walsh's 1940 film version of author W.R. Burnett's outlaw saga High Sierra and, ten years later, he snapped up Burnett's latest crime novel to direct himself. The film had an immediate and lasting impact on crime movies and literature. It subverted the Production Code by making its criminals working professionals with whom audiences empathized. Vivid and note-perfect.
UNITED STATES (1950) Dir. John Huston. 112 min.
SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE / SYMPHONIE POUR UN MASSACRE
9:20 PM
Perhaps the ultimate heist double-cross movie. A quintet of Parisian businessmen go in on a drug deal, but one of them has a daring plan to hijack the loot and run off with a comrade’s wife. A start-to-finish nail-biter co-scripted by the controversial José Giovanni (who also costars) and directed by thriller specialist Jacques Deray (La Piscine, A Bigger Splash). In French with English subtitles
FRANCE (1963) Dir. Jacques Deray. 115 min.
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