CRY OF THE CITY / THE KILLERS | American Cinematheque

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Wed, Apr 17, 2013
7:30pm

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Noir City: Hollywood, 15th Annual Festival Of Film Noir

Robert Siodmak Double Feature!

CRY OF THE CITY / THE KILLERS

Presented in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation

CRY OF THE CITY

1948, 20th Century Fox, 95 min, USA, Dir: Robert Siodmak

Perhaps the best realized of director Robert Siodmak’s films noir indelibly relates the enduring theme (based on Henry Helseth’s novel The Chair for Martin Rome) of neighborhood pals who tread divergent courses. Victor Mature becomes a lawman, Richard Conte goes crooked. The two square off all across Manhattan with tragic results. Siodmak eschewed the semi-documentary style then in vogue at Fox creating instead a vivid, Expressionistic urban landscape that ideally suited this mythic mid-20th-century tale of good and evil. Co-starring Shelley Winters, Fred Clark and that Amazonian nightmare, Hope Emerson.

THE KILLERS (1946)

1946, Universal, 103 min, USA, Dir: Robert Siodmak

The CITIZEN KANE of film noir that begins with the ending - "I did something wrong ... once" - and moves backward through interweaving flashbacks to reveal the layer of double crosses that led to the opening scene. The script by Anthony Veiller (with an uncredited assist from John Huston) takes the first 10 minutes from Hemingway's short story and then spirals into the noir netherworld that Robert Siodmak depicted better than any other director. The smoldering sexuality between Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner catapulted both to super-stardom. With Edmond O’Brien and Jeff Corey.

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Screening formats: DCP (CRY OF THE CITY) and 35mm (THE KILLERS)

Egyptian Theatre • Wed, Apr 17, 2013 • 7:30pm

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Films in this Series at the Egyptian

Opening Night! TRY AND GET ME / HELL DRIVERS Fri, Apr 5, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	SUNSET BOULEVARD / THE OTHER WOMAN Sat, Apr 6, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	REPEAT PERFORMANCE / HE WALKED BY NIGHT Sun, Apr 7, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre
HOUSE BY THE RIVER / SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR Wed, Apr 10, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	THE CASE AGAINST BROOKLYN / CITY ACROSS THE RIVER Thu, Apr 11, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	New 35mm Prints! STREET OF CHANCE / NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES Fri, Apr 12, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre
HIGH TIDE / CHICAGO CALLING Sat, Apr 13, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	APPOINTMENT WITH A SHADOW / GUILTY BYSTANDER Sun, Apr 14, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	UNDERCOVER MAN / SO DARK THE NIGHT Thu, Apr 18, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre
Archival Prints! NATIVE SON / NO WAY OUT Fri, Apr 19, 2013 - 7:30pm Egyptian Theatre	Dean Mora's Swingtet, Burlesque, Drinks, Gambling Den, Mugshots, Noir CIty Scavenger Hunt Noir City 15th Anniversary Closing Night Party: ROAD HOUSE Sun, Apr 21, 2013 - 6:00pm Egyptian Theatre

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3-D Noir! 60th Anniversaries!

MAN IN THE DARK / INFERNO

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