Repertory Series!
(Some of the) Best of the Oughts
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
5:00, 10:00 PM
Double Feature w/ZODIAC
(2005) dir Shane Black w/Robert Downey Jr., Val Kimer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bensen [102 min]
Shane Black, the writer of Lethal Weapon, creates a refreshingly irreverent neo-noir with just the right amount of respect for its source material. In this murder mystery infused with the caustic wit and noir sensibilities of Chandler and Hammett, Downey Jr. plays a thief masquerading as an actor and Kilmer plays a private eye in the Phillip Marlowe mold… with one important difference. KISS KISS BANG BANG is a film that’s smart enough to know where it has come from and where it is now. One of the best written films of the ‘00s with hilarious performances by some particularly free spirited actors.
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showing through thursday
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My Tale of Two Cities by Carl Kurlander (2010, 85 min.). This funny and heartfelt film tells the comeback story of screenwriter Carl Kurlander (St. Elmo's Fire), who moved back to his hometown of Pittsburgh during his mid-life crisis. In an attempt to help his hometown while exploring with honesty and humor whether you can go home again, Kurlander asks his neighborsfrom the famous Franco Harris and Teresa Heinz Kerry, to his old gym teacher and the girl who inspired St. Elmo's Firehow this once great industrial giant which built America with its steel, conquered polio, and invented everything from aluminum to The Big Mac, might reinvent itself for a new age.
showing through aug 5
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Directed by Nicholas Ray.
With Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond
US 1951, 35mm, b/w, 81 min.
Print from Warner Bros.
A gripping thriller that suggests a melding of D.W. Griffith’s most elemental chase films with Alfred Hitchcock’s late crime films - a link made clear by Bernard Herrmann’s evocative score - On Dangerous Ground is one of Ray’s most complex and rewarding early films. Robert Ryan gives an electrifying, haunted performance as a violent city cop corroded by self-loathing and sent upstate to lead the chase for a child killer as punishment for brutally roughing up a suspect. The city scenes, shot in shadowy, atmospheric black and white, are filled with desperate characters (including a cameo by screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides) in dark alleys and cheap hotels, contrasting with the bright whiteness and natural elements of the country and making explicit Ryan’s physical and spiritual journey away from corruption and towards the healing embrace of the natural world, where, through his relationship with Ida Lupino’s blind sister of the suspect, he may regain his humanity.
showing through monday
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Directed by Nicholas Ray.
With Anthony Quinn, Yoko Tani, Peter O’Toole
France/Italy/UK 1959, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Print from Park Circus
Ray’s lifelong interest in isolated cultures – gypsies in Hot Blood, the Deep South in Wind in the Everglades – informs every frame of this fascinating late film about an Inuit hunter, robustly played by Anthony Quinn, who runs afoul of the laws imposed upon his Arctic homeland by the white settlers. Assigned to bring him to justice is a naïve lawman, played by Peter O’Toole in an early screen appearance, who is pulled dangerously deep into the Arctic winter. A return to Ray’s perennial theme of a search for home, The Savage Innocents was shot in CinemaScope on location in Northern Canada, using the immense emptiness of the landscape to emphasize the harshness of the environment and the ultimately insurmountable difference between the two distant cultures.
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