Derby Neck Library to show film noir 'Night and the City' today

DERBY -  Join us [at Derby Neck Library] as we watch Night and the City (1950), Jules Dassin’s pitch-black noir about a scumbag hustler (Richard Widmark) who tries to corner a pro wrestling racket in London. 

Dassin depicts the unglamorous world of brutal small-time hoods in all its authentic grunge and sweaty desperation. Also starring Gene Tierney. Hot, fresh popcorn will be served!

The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave.

Derby Neck Library to show movie 'The Hitch-Hiker' Monday

 

DERBY - Join us at 3:30 p.m. Monday at Derby Neck Library as we watch The Hitch-Hiker (1953), the first classic Hollywood film noir to be directed by a woman: the legendary actress and trailblazing filmmaker Ida Lupino. 

Based on a true story as propulsive, riveting, and intense as a Hitchcock thriller, the film stars Edmond O’Brien, William Talman, and Frank Lovejoy, and features cinematography by the great Nicholas Musuraca, who shot Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) and several of the other horror masterpieces produced by Val Lewton at RKO. 

Hot, fresh popcorn will be served!

The Library is at 307 Hawthorne Ave.

Derby Neck Library to show film noir 'I Walk Alone' Monday

DERBY - Join us tomorrow, Aug. 11 at 3:30 p.m. at Derby Neck Library as we watch the classic film noir I Walk Alone (1947).

It stars the legends Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in their first collaboration, together with the great Lizabeth Scott.

The picture’s magnificent chiaroscuro photography by New Haven’s own Leo Tover, its crackling script, and its prescient depiction of postwar capitalism as a Kafkaesque labyrinth of absurdity and exploitation, make I Walk Alone one of the seminal films of the period.

Don’t miss it! Hot, fresh popcorn will be served.

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Seymour Public Library to show classic film noir 'Tension' Friday

 

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