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THE FILM NOIR FESTIVAL

February at the Heights

Our annual Film Noir series returns to the Heights with some of our all-time favorites.

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Past Films in this Series

Starts Thu, February 4

THE KILLING

(1956, DCP, 85m) dir Stanley Kubrick w/Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards. When a group of down-and-out ex-cons plan to knock over a race track, fate plays its hand. Through working within the framework of film noir, Kubrick displays his distinctive strengths. $12 7:30

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Starts Thu, February 11

THIS GUN FOR HIRE

(1942, 35mm, 81m) dir Frank Tuttle w/Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston. When hired killer Philip Raven (Ladd) is betrayed by his employer, he does what he must to get revenge, including teaming up with a detective’s fiancée (Lake). $12 7:30

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Starts Thu, February 18

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

(1947, 35mm, 87m) dir Orson Welles w/Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane. Hayworth portrays Elsa, a married woman whom Michael (Welles) would kill for in this noir classic based on a Sherwood King novel. $12 7:30

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Starts Thu, February 25

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

(1957, DCP, 96m) dir Alexander Mackendrick w/Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison. “Match me, Sidney,” barks Lancaster’s gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker to Curtis’s sycophantic publicist Sidney Falco, in this quintessential portrait of The Great White Way. $12 7:30

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Starts Thu, March 4

MINISTRY OF FEAR

(1944, 35mm, 86m) dir Fritz Lang w/Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond. Stephen Neale (Milland) steps out of an asylum and into a web of espionage and deceit in this adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. Lang’s bizarre set pieces create a mad world wherein a charity carnival could hold the secret to a murderous spy ring. $12 7:30

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