February 3, 2002 - Premiere ‘Moonlight Matinee’ Outdoor Film Screening

February 24 – Contract Killers

This Gun For Hire (1942) - Superb adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake;

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Murder By Contract (1958) - Minor gem, as hitman battles his conscience as well as the law.

March 24 – Feds & Gangsters

Scarface (1932) - Howard Hawks’ classic 1932 telling of the Al Capone story;

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T-Men (1947) - Treasury G-Men track counterfeiters in this rare film noir; from the Raw Deal team of Anthony Mann and John Alton.

May 5 (forApril) – Brainwashing time

Invasion of the Body-Snatchers (1956) - Original sci-fi sleeper by Don Siegel will having you looking twice at your neighbours! ;

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – Frank Sinatra stars in this controversial Cold War political thriller from the best seller by Richard Condon, directed by John Frankenheimer.

May 26 – Corruption in City Hall

Undercover Man (1949) - "Muscular" and "gritty" police procedural thriller starring Glenn Ford from the director of Gun Crazy and The Big Combo, Joseph H. Lewis;

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Slightly Scarlet (1956) - Pulp fiction 1950s-style, in color, written by James M.Cain (of Postman Always Rings Twice fame).

June 30 - Martin Scorsese double

Scorsese shorts - Early short films from the master in his student days;

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Mean Streets (1973) - The film which put Scorsese - plus De Niro and Harvey Keitel - on the map.

July 28 - Spytime

End of Innocence (1981) - color short, looking at atom spies through a child’s eyes;

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August 25 – The Rock Scene’s Dark Underbelly

3 American LPs (1969) - Wim Wenders, maker of Paris Texas, goes ‘on the road’ to explore the music of Creedence, Van Morrison and Harvey Mandel in this short film;

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Cisco Pike (1971) - Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black and Harry Dean Stanton star as 70s Rock’s underbelly crosses into a criminal milieu.

September 22 – Southern Gothic Terror

Moonrise (1948) – Intense drama where guilt and memory of past crimes return to haunt a small swamp town;

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Night of the Hunter (1955) - Charles Laughton’s only film direction, this high water mark for Southern Gothic is also Robert Mitchum’s finest hour.

October 27 – Expressionism Rules

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) - German silent masterpiece expressing madness and fear through the lens of the camera;

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Touch of Evil (1958) - Orson Welles’ last great American work, in its original studio cut, explodes the conventions of noir, with Marlene Deitrich, Charlton Heston.

November 24 – Postwar Vengeance

Crossfire (1947) - Wartime stress pushes one soldier’s intolerance to criminal action which is brought to justice in this landmark film starring Robert Ryan;

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Act of Violence (1948) - Ryan again, pursuing a World War II vendetta in a civilian manhunt.

December 15 – European Sensibilites

The Reckless Moment (1949) - James Mason stars in this stylish blackmail thriller with Joan Bennett, remade in 2001 as The Deep End;

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