Focus on Film Noir
Celebrating 100 Years of Columbia Pictures
April 19th – April 25th, 2024
Opening the Columbia Pictures centennial celebration will be a one week special Focus on Film Noir, including works by legendary filmmakers Nicholas Ray (In a Lonely Place, 1950), Fritz Lang (The Big Heat, 1953 and Human Desire, 1954) and Orson Welles (The Lady from Shanghai, 1947), with stars like Rita Hayworth, Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart and Glenn Ford; as well as more rare titles by lesser known master of the genre such as Joseph Lewis, Irving Lerner, Gordon Douglas and Phil Karlson.
The Focus On Noir weekend will start Friday, April 19th and continue through the weekend with second screenings showing during the following week through Thursday, April 25th. Special guests Paul Schrader, cinematographer Fred Murphy, and Michael Barker (Co-Founder and Co-President of Sony Picture Classics) will make introductions and participate in Q&As during the weekend.
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Choose Your Own Double Bill
During Hollywood’s Golden Era, the double bill was a popular concept, offering two films for the price of one ticket. The second feature — nicknamed B movie — was usually a smaller budget film, with actors lesser known than the studios’ biggest stars. Columbia was famous for its gritty, inventive B movies, often crime films. In homage to that tradition, we also offer our take on a double bill:
Present your ticket to any one of these four “A” movies – The Big Heat / Human Desire / In a Lonely Place / The Lady From Shanghai – for a free ticket to any one of the B movies – Murder by Contract / Scandal Sheet / So Dark the Night / Walk a Crooked Mile.
The two films do not need to be on the same day, and the free ticket can only be redeemed in person at the Box Office.
Coming Soon || 35mm
Plays 4/19 & 4/21
After evidence surfaces of an information leak at a major nuclear lab, FBI Agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe) pairs up with Scotland Yard Detective Philip Grayson (Louis Hayward) to track down those responsible.
Coming Soon
Plays 4/19 & 4/22
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister (Rita Hayworth), seaman Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles) joins a bizarre yachting cruise and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
Coming Soon
Plays 4/19 & 4/25
Editor Mark Chapman (Broderick Crawford) presides over a trashy but financially successful tabloid newspaper in New York City. With his hotshot crime reporter, Steve McCleary (John Derek), and feature writer, Julie Allison (Donna Reed), Chapman attends a Lonely Hearts Club publicity stunt sponsored by the paper, where he's shocked to run into Charlotte (Rosemary DeCamp), the wife he abandoned two decades before.
Coming Soon
Plays 4/20 & 4/22
One of Martin Scorsese’s favorites and, by his own admission, a major influence on Taxi Driver and The Departed, Contract centers on Claude (Vince Edwards), who enters into the assassination racket as the most sure fire path to his dream of home ownership.
Coming Soon || Q&A with Fred Murphy
Plays 4/20 & 4/23
Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) and his neighbor Laurel (Gloria Grahame) are just getting to know each other romantically when the police begin questioning Dixon about his involvement in the murder of a girl he met once.
Coming Soon || Q&A with Bette Gordon
Plays 4/20 & 4/24
A police officer seems to have committed suicide, but Detective Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) thinks there's more to the story. After talking to the man's mob-connected mistress, Bannion discovers far-reaching corruption that leads all the way from the police station to kingpin Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby).
Coming Soon
Plays 4/21 & 4/23
After his doctor recommends a lengthy vacation, French detective Henri Cassin (Steven Geray) settles into the bucolic village of St. Margot for a rest. Checking into a family-owned hotel, the detective soon finds himself pursued by the pretty innkeeper's daughter, Nanette (Micheline Cheirel), and succumbs to her charms.
Coming Soon || Intro by Paul Schrader
Plays 4/21 & 4/24
When he's fired from his job at the railroad, Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) asks his wife, Vicki (Gloria Grahame), to pay a visit to his boss, Owens (Grandon Rhodes), to try to earn his sympathies. It works, but Carl then assumes that Vicki and Owens are involved romantically, so he murders his boss in a jealous rage.