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Fri Aug 1 - Sat Aug 23

Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis


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Pacific Film Archive (PFA)
2575 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 map
cross street: Bowditch
district: Berkeley

Fri Aug 1 (7pm: Dark Passage; 9:15pm: The Unfaithful)
Sat Aug 2 (6:30pm: Shoot the Piano Player)
Tue Aug 5 (7:30pm: Shoot the Piano Player)
Thu Aug 7 (6:30pm: Nightfall; 8:30pm: The Burglar)
Sun Aug 10 (7pm: Descent into Hell)

Description
It’s surprising that pulp writer David Goodis never named a novel Cul-de-Sac. His stories conjure a dead end, littered with the wreckage of lonely losers and lowlifes. An ill fate befalls the typical Goodis fall guy, who often glimpses the high life, however fleetingly, but then through some irascible compulsion or sinister defect must stumble back to the seamy streets. Goodis’s own life follows the same pattern: at age thirty, he saw his novel Dark Passage adapted for the screen and parlayed that into a contract at Warner Bros., but his questionable proclivities made him an outcast even in Hollywood. Back in his hometown of Philadelphia, he churned out paperback originals while prowling the seedy saloons with unguarded desire. At age forty-nine, he was dead of cirrhosis. Though Goodis persisted in relative obscurity, his works falling in and out of print, filmmakers mined his shady novels for their criminal content...