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February at the Heights
Fugitives in cars have inspired Hollywood for decades. For the 16th Film Noir Festival, the Heights Theater and Trylon Cinema bring you five thrilling incarnations of this theme: doomed couples and individuals hoping against hope that they can outrun fate.
(1937, 86m) dir Fritz Lang w/Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney. Eddie (Fonda) is an ex-con, sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit. On the lam with his wife, Joan, (Sidney), he unleashes his pent-up, and justifiable, anger on an unsuspecting public. Lang’s film is a shocking indictment of American hypocrisy. At the Heights…
Screenings: February 6 7:30
(1945, 68m) dir Edgar G. Ulmer w/Tom Neal and Ann Savage. Al (Neal) hitchhikes a ride with a gambler who has a bad ticker. When the dude croaks, Al plunges into a nightmare that worsens when he meets the most fatale of femme fatales, the grating Vera (Savage). At the Heights Theater! 7:30 $12 Tickets
Screenings: February 13 7:30
(1950, 87m) dir Joseph H. Lewis w/John Dall and Peggy Cummins. Bart (Dall) loves guns. Annie (Cummins) loves guns and money. Put them together and watch the violence unfold. Dall and Cummins are electric as the doomed pair, whose greed gives way to a passionate love. At the Heights Theater! 7:30 $12 Tickets
Screenings: February 20 7:30
(1971, 90m) dir Steven Spielberg w/Dennis Weaver and a 13-ton 1955 Peterbilt 281. David Mann (Weaver) is a dull businessman on his way to LA through the Mojave Desert. When he cuts off a rusty semi truck, it pisses off the driver, who begins a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse on this deserted highway. At the…
Screenings: February 27 7:30
(1991, 130m) dir Ridley Scott w/Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel. Best friends Louise (Sarandon) and Thelma (Davis) take the former’s ’66 Thunderbird out for a girls’ weekend. But when Louise blows away Thelma’s would-be rapist at a honky-tonk, the pair hit the road, leaving the patriarchy in the dust. At the Heights Theater! 7:30…
Screenings: March 6 7:30