East Coast Noir Events

[waltermcwilliams]

I live in NC. Can anyone recommend some East Coast Noir events?

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[Movie Memories]

There is always something in New York City and, I believe Washington, DC. As for dates, usually someone will be helpful enough to post regarding these events on this forum. I look for these also as I live in the North East.

Haven't had the pleasure of attending yet, but will do so at some point. We will be out in California this May at the time of the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival and are thinking about going. Noir City is where I would like to be though.

[cigar joe]

Yea New York has some events, but it could use a bit more. Since I'm now a member and relatively close to the city I can monitor & post things here.

[cigar joe]

There is something coming up this Weekend from Paramount Pictures, To Celebrate 100 Years Lowe's Jersey Theater

[cigar joe]

Here is something coming up this Weekend from Paramount Pictures, To Celebrate 100 Years of that Great American Movie Studio

At The Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre
54 Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ 07306
*Tel. (201) 798-6055 Fax: (201) 798-4020 W

A Not-For-Profit Arts Center in a Landmark Movie Palace

All Titles Screened in 35mm on our BIG 50ft Wide Screen




Saturday, February 25, 6PM

* "Double Indemnity"

Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson. Directed by Billy Wilder. 1944, 107mins. B&W

Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, “Double Indemnity” represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate. Movie veterans Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson give some of their best performances, and Wilder's cynical sensibility finds a perfect match in the story's unsentimental perspective, heightened by John Seitz's hard-edged cinematography. Double Indemnity ranks with the classics of mainstream Hollywood movie-making.

* $7 for Adults, $5 for Seniors (65+) and Children (12 & younger).

Saturday, February 25 8:20PM

* "Psycho"

*Starring Anthony Perkins & Janet Leigh. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. *1960, 120 mins., B&W

The infamous shower scene is now part of our collective cultural consciousness, so it’s easy to forget just how ground-breaking Psycho was in 1960. Perhaps no American movie before had been more direct and unapologetic about violence or served it up with such disorienting abruptness and even tongue-in-cheek wit. Fleeting nudity, a casual depiction of sex outside marriage, and a focus on the psychological subtext of a murderer’s personality were also shockingly new to the screen. Janet Leigh is bored by her menial job in a real estate office and frustrated in her romance with a hardware store manager. On a whim, she takes off one afternoon with $40,000 that she was supposed to deposit into her employer’s bank account. Thirty six hours later paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Leigh decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks. He then regales her with odd stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next, but in addition to the shower scene there are dozens of memorable bits throughout this film. With “Psycho”, director Alfred Hitchcock re-wrote the rules for what a thriller could and should be. But often, a groundbreaking film will seem disappointingly ordinary and tame when viewed years later in the wake of succeeding films that try to push boundaries even further. What is truly remarkable about Psycho is that 52 years later it is still genuinely terrifying, as much or more so than anything else ever seen on the screen.

* $7 for Adults, $5 for Seniors (65+) and Children (12 & younger).


- - Combo discounts available for multiple screenings in a weekend. - - -

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Loew's Is Easy To Get To: The Loew's Jersey Theatre, at 54 Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ, is directly across JFK Boulevard from the JSQ PATH Center with trains to and from Lower and Midtown Manhattan and Newark's Penn Station, and is minutes from the NJ Turnpike, Rts 3 and 1&9 and the Holland & Lincoln Tunnels. We're easy to reach by car or mass transit from throughout the Metro Region.