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We continue this month with our focus on film noir — emphasizing its themes, the lighting, shadows and the black-and-white cinematography. Our film in October will be Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951), starring Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling.

Billy Wilder’s 1951 noir Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival) is one of the most scathing and cynical indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s appetite for sensation and exploitation that has gotten only more relevant with time.

Admission is free to this community event. Doors open at 7pm on Tuesday, October 13th and Showtime is at 7:30pm. We hope you can join us for a great show!

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We continue this month with our focus on film noir — emphasizing its themes, the lighting, shadows and the black-and-white cinematography. Our film in September will be Nicholas Ray’s 1950 In a Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame.

In a Lonely Place stars Academy Award winner Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele, a down-on-his-luck studio scribe who reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hat-check girl to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele — who has a history of violent behavior — becomes the prime suspect. Fortunately for him, his sexy neighbor, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame) — who is physically attracted to the writer — lies to the police by providing Steele with an air-tight alibi. But is he truly innocent of Mildred’s death or is Laurel destined to become the next victim of Steele’s violent temper?

Admission is free to this community event. Doors open at 7pm on Tuesday, September 15th and Showtime is at 7:30pm. We hope you can join us for a great show!

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Classic Art Films will be hosting its first ‘Movie Time’ showing at Gallery 2622 in Wauwatosa, WI on Wednesday, August 19th, 2015.

To start, we’ll be focusing on film noir — emphasizing its themes, the lighting, shadows and the black-and-white cinematography. Our film in August  is Alexander Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success (1957), starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.

Sweet Smell of Success tells the cynical story of slimy and powerful newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker and his weasle-like press agent Sidney Falco. J.J. Hunsecker (based on Walter Winchell) uses Falco and his nationally syndicated newspaper column to ruin his sister’s relationship with a jazz musician he deems unworthy of her. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of Success is a cracklingly cruel and gritty dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950’s Manhattan.

Admission is free to this community event. Doors open at 7pm on Wednesday, August 19th and Showtime is at 7:30pm. We hope you can join us for a great show!

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