Swoon: Great Leading Men in Gorgeous 35mm Prints
In a Lonely Place
Nicholas Ray (U.S., 1950)
- When
- Thu Sep 2, 2010
- Where
- Pacific Film Archive (PFA)
- Time
- 7:00-8:34 PM
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Drama
Description
Restored Print!Nicholas Ray delivers one of Hollywood's most grown-up views of love—and Hollywood—in this bitter, tender, and devastating film, presented here in a gorgeous print. Humphrey Bogart stars as Dixon Steele, a less-than-successful screenwriter whose violent contempt has many targets: industry “popcorn salesmen,” the movie-going public, his enemies, his friends, his lovers. (“Do you look down on all women or just the ones you know?” an ex-girlfriend asks.) When a hatcheck girl is murdered, Dix’s cynical attitude and penchant for brawling make him a prime suspect; his neighbor Laurel (Gloria Grahame, whose real-life marriage to Ray was falling apart while the film was being made) provides an alibi, an inauspicious beginning to an ill-fated romance. In Dorothy Hughes’s novel and the original version of the script, Dix was in fact a murderer; in the final film he is “only” a troubled man. The difference makes the film infinitely more moving, and yet in the end, as Laurel says with knowing sadness, it doesn't matter at all.—Juliet Clark
• Written by Andrew Solt, based on a story by Dorothy B. Hughes, adapted by Edmund H. North. Photographed by Burnett Guffey. With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Art Smith. (94 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Sony Pictures)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/
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- 510.643.2197
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- 510/642-5249 (Box Office)
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