FEBRUARY (Screening on FEBRUARY 21 – Joint screening with Reel McCoy Film Society)

Raw Deal (classic Anthony Mann noir)+ The Perfect Crime (Hitchcock short, starring Vincent Price)

MARCH (Screening on APRIL 1)

Pretty Poison (a black comedy from 1968 starring Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, where not every criminal is who they appear)

+ The Big Combo (shot by John Alton, Anthony Mann’s noir cinematographer, this gains an added dimension as identities blur between cop & hood)

APRIL (Screening on APRIL 29)

Owl Creek Bridge (short based on the Ambrose Bierce story)

+ Boomerang (Elia Kazan s anatomy of corruption lets the audience in on a small town’ s secret - based on the true story of an innocent (?) man accused)

MAY (Screening on MAY 20)

They Live By Night (dir. by Nicholas Ray) and Gun Crazy (from The Big Combo director, Joseph H.Lewis) - two very different late ‘40s takes on the exploits of Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker

JUNE (Screening on JUNE 24)

Chinatown (Jack, Faye and John Huston in the timeless Roman noir classic)

JULY (Screening on JULY 29)

Ace In The Hole (Billy Wilder’s darkly cynical tale of news manipulation, which still echoes strongly in today’s media reality - starring Kirk Douglas)

AUGUST (Screening on AUGUST 26)

Where The Sidewalk Ends (superb noir, as detective Dana Andrews manhunt is shadowed by his own past; directed by Otto Preminger) + Betty Boop ‘toon

SEPTEMBER (Screening on SEPTEMBER 23)

Deliverance (John Boorman's longstanding classic, with Burt Reynolds & Jon Voight hurtling downriver)

+ Two-Lane Blacktop (James Taylor and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson in an American odyssey of an altogether cooler sort)

- both Cinemascope prints!

OCTOBER (Screening on OCTOBER 28)

M (Fritz Lang s first sound film, starring Peter Lorre, stretches the boundaries of criminality and social order, obsessiveness and hidden fears, as the underworld and police join forces)

+ White Heat (James Cagney s finest hour in this nail-biting classic - "Top of the World, Ma!")

NOVEMBER (Screening on NOVEMBER 25)

The Killers (Director Robert Siodmak uses a Citizen Kane structure to elaborate Hemingway's short story into one of Burt Lancaster's best remembered films; also starring Ava Gardner and noir stalwart Edmond O Brien)

+ The Stand-In (Humphrey Bogart figures in this early Time & Motion satire on Hollywood)

DECEMBER (Screening on DECEMBER 16)

Kiss Me Deadly (unflappable Mike Hammer in the private eye flick to end them all!)