Film Forum in Spring (NYC)

[Steve-O]

Wow... just came back from a great Noir City and I see the Film Forum is screening some great ones on the east coast!

Fast Eddie presents The Prowler! We'll have to get some of our New Yorker BAN members to go to that one...

others include: Dock of New York, Sunrise, Ace in the Hole, Strangers on the Third Floor (!), Scandal Sheet, Deadline USA, The Harder They Fall, Park Row, The Big Clock, Shock Corrider, Sweet Smell of Success, and a few great Scottish films (not noir by any stretch) Gregory's Girl and Local Hero....

I attached the flyer in PDF. Excellent selections.

Forum Schedule

[David]

I am so there...(!)

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

Excellent. I'm in.

[Steve-O]

so what night are you guys going? I'm probably going to Strangers on the Third Floor and the first night of The Prowler.

[David]

so what night are you guys going? I'm probably going to Strangers on the Third Floor and the first night of The Prowler.

Steve,

Strangers is one of the few of my faves that I haven't yet seen on a big screen, so I'm going to move Heaven and Earth to be there. Maybe some
others, I'm not sure yet..

[Mappin & Webb Ltd.]

I'll be there for the first night of The Prowler for sure Steve and a whole bunch of the "Newspaper Picture" features as well. Stranger on the Third Floor likely won't be on my list as I saw that 2 summers ago in Boston and felt pretty tepid toward it (Don't blink or you may miss Lorre altogether in the film). I do remember it looking great however so perhaps I should give it another chance. Regardless I'm up for meeting with NYC BAN folks for the Film Forum pics so we should figure that out as March draws closer.

There's also a fine series on the weekends at IFC here in New York called "La Creme du Crime." This weekend is Rififi and upcoming ones of note are Shoot the Piano Player, Touchez Pas au Grisbi, Pickpocket, Band of Outsiders and Le Cercle Rouge. Here's the link.

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

so what night are you guys going? I'm probably going to Strangers on the Third Floor and the first night of The Prowler.

Fist night of The Prowler

[Steve-O]

M&W: Thanks for the heads up on the IFC films... Le Cercle Rouge and The Pickpocket (which I've never seen) will be on in my household.
Le Cercle Rouge


Pickpocket

[JCharles]

I hope to be there for the first night of The Prowler, as well. Another good-looking double feature is the one with Bogart's Deadline U.S.A. and The Harder They Fall. Great combination!

[Ed Burma]

Envious of those of you with regular access to Film Forum. The "newspaper" series that follows THE PROWLER is going to be super, and not just for the noir titles being included.

I do wonder if THE PROWLER, great as it truly us, can sustain a week's worth of shows on its own. Think it would be have nice if they'd set it up as double features with several of Losey's other early noirs.

--EB

[Fast Eddie]

I do wonder if THE PROWLER, great as it truly us, can sustain a week's worth of shows on its own. Think it would be have nice if they'd set it up as double features with several of Losey's other early noirs.

--EB

Ed,

While that sounds great, actually pulling it off is another matter ... good prints are hard to find of the films Losey made in Hollywood. Film Forum did record business last year with an extended run of IN A LONELY PLACE, and I suspect programmer Bruce Goldstein believes lightning can strike twice. The success of THE PROWLER will be based largely of how much media attention it gets in the Manhattan press. I saw that The New Yorker recently dedicated space in its "Current Cinema" section to a reissue of THE RED SHOES, which was great ... as well as being a pithy comment on "The Current Cinema."