A RARE NOIR IS GOOD TO FIND 2
INTERNATIONAL NOIR REVISITED ▪ 1947-1966 ▪ 12 NOIRS/11 COUNTRIES

FRI-MON, MAY 5-8 ▪ ROXIE THEATRE
Presented by Mid-Century Productions

FRI, MAY 5

Cairo Station

BAB EL HADID
CAIRO STATION

(1958) 7:30

The Road to Hell

CAMINO DEL INFIERNO
THE ROAD TO HELL

(1951) 9:15

SAT MATINÉE, MAY 6

In the Name of the Law

IN NOME DELLA LEGGE
IN THE NAME OF THE LAW

(1950) 2:00

Madness Rules

MATTO REGIERT
MADNESS RULES

(1947) 4:00

SAT EVENING, MAY 6

Odd Man Out

ODD MAN OUT

(1947) 7:00

PETLA
THE NOOSE

(1958) 9:15

SUN MATINÉE, MAY 7

Strange Encounter

ESTRANHO ENCONTRO
STRANGE ENCOUNTER

(1958) 2:00

KRAKATIT

(1948) 3:45

SUN EVENING, MAY 7

RISO AMARO
BITTER RICE

(1949) 7:00

Seagulls Are Dying in the Harbor

MEEUWEN STERVEN IN DE HAVEN
SEAGULLS ARE DYING IN THE HARBOR

(1955) 9:15

MON, MAY 8

GOHIKI NO SHINSHI
CASH CALLS HELL

(1966) 7:15

HANYO
THE HOUSEMAID

(1960) 9:00

SATURDAY EVENING MAY 6

ODD MAN OUT  7:00

James Mason took a giant step into international stardom as Johnny McQueen, just-released IRA leader who has a harrowing "dark night of the soul" after a heist goes wrong and he is severely wounded. Carol Reed eschews any cheap Christ-like comparisons for Johnny, opting for his own simmering exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's famous dictum that "Hell…is other people." Sublime, grotesque, and above all darkly gleaming in the desolate glory of its nocturnal photography, courtesy of the great Robert Krasker (THE THIRD MAN, BRIEF ENCOUNTER, SENSO). With: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, William Hartnell, F. J. McCormick, Fay Compton, Denis O'Dea, Robert Beatty, Dan O'herlihy, Katheen Ryan

UK (1947, 116min)  Director: Carol Reed. Screenplay: F. L. Green, R. C. Sherriff. From the novel by F. L. Green. Photography: Robert Krasker. Music: William Allwyn

THE NOOSE / PETLA  9:15

Think THE LOST WEEKEND on steroids. Kuba Kowalski (a haunted Gustaw Holoubek) is as much a victim of his blown-out society than he is a self-loathing poseur, however—and displaced rage is what fuels despair and desolation here, as opposed to THE LOST WEEKEND's weak-kneed Don Burnham (Ray Milland). In the words of Anastasia Lin: "A devastatingly choreographed pas-de-deux of psychological strangulation"—and we watch as the metaphorical noose tightens around Kuba as he dives deeper and deeper into hallucinatory intoxication. Director Has follows Carol Reed in depicting a world that all too often closes ranks on those it is ostensibly claiming to support. With: Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielowna, Tadeusz Fijewski, Stansislaw Milski, Wladyslaw Dwoyno, Igor Przengrodzki

POLAND (1958, 96 min) Director: Wojchiech Has. Screenplay: Marek Hiasko. From a story by Wojchiech Has & Marek Hiasko. Photography: Mieczyslaw Jahoda. Music: Tadeusz Baird