Cinedarbaar presents 'Film Noir' Film Festival at American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 8th, 9th & 10th May 2014
Entry : To request an invitation, please e-mail to info.cinedarbaar@gmail.com or collect your passes from the American Center prior to the event. Please carry a valid photo ID to enter the American Center and an e-invite (Poster’s Print Copy) to attend the festival.
Event Description : American Center in collaboration with Cinedarbaar celebrates ‘Film Noir’ Film Festival
Cinedarbaar celebrates ‘Film Noir’ through screening of 8 specially curated movies in 3 days. Being held from 8th – 10th May at the American Center Auditorium there will bequizzes and interesting sessions to complete the whole experience of watching movies.
The festival will open with ‘Double Indemnity’, a 1944 crime drama directed by Billy Wilder which was nominated for 7 Oscars and was adapted from a novella written by crime fiction writer James M. Cain. Other movies include The Killers(1946) loosely based on Ernest Hemmingway’s short story, The Lady from Shanghai (1947) directed by the auteur Orson Welles, Thieves Highway (1949) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955) based on novels by A. I. Bezzerides, In a lonely Place(1950) directed by Nicholas Ray and considered as the noir-classic. Neo – Noir films such as Blade Runner (1982), the popular sci-fi thriller noir film and LA Confidential (1997) an adaptation known to give a true depiction of LA will also be screened during the three days. Neo-noir film establishes a much more frightening and grim reality than what was established in the noir films of the 1940s and 1950s.
Film Noir or the Black Cinema was coined by French critic Nino Frank to describe the genres of detective, gangster, crime and melodramatic films. Guns, Cigarettes, Hats, femme fatales wearing sensual makeup and plunging necklines, mixing drinks with their gangster beaus marked a typical movie of the genre.
Through these films, important techniques of noir and auteurs of the genre like director Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray,Robert Aldrich etc. will be explored. Learn more about this genre through the interactive sessions on such topics after the movie screening. Come discover the world of heroes and antiheroes, mobsters, killers, criminal milieu, expressionistic lighting and shadows with a free entry for all. Few lucky visitors can also get a chance to win full-size posters of the movie through a review writing competition and by answering fun quiz after the screening.
Schedule :
8th May 2014, 3:30 pm
Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder (1944), 107 Min
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud
scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
8th May 2014, 6:15 pm
The Killers by Robert Siodmak (1946), 103Min
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his
past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
9th May 2014, 3:30 pm
The Lady from Shanghai by Orson Welles (1947), 87 Min
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a
bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
9th May 2014, 6:15 pm
Thieves Highway by Jules Dassin (1949), 94 Min
A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and
robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
10th May, 12:00 pm
In a lonely Place By Nicholas Ray (1950), 94 Min
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely
neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts...
10th May, 2:00 pm
Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Aldrich (1955), 106 Min
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of
intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit."
10th May, 4:00 pm
Blade Runner Ridley Scott (1982), 117 Min
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole
a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
10th May, 6:30 pm
LA Confidential by Curtis Hanson (1997), 138 Min
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - the straight-laced, the
brutal, and the sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand
of justice.
Related Events : Movies
Place : American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001
Area : Kasturba Gandhi Marg Event
Event Description : American Center in collaboration with Cinedarbaar celebrates ‘Film Noir’ Film Festival
Cinedarbaar celebrates ‘Film Noir’ through screening of 8 specially curated movies in 3 days. Being held from 8th – 10th May at the American Center Auditorium there will bequizzes and interesting sessions to complete the whole experience of watching movies.
The festival will open with ‘Double Indemnity’, a 1944 crime drama directed by Billy Wilder which was nominated for 7 Oscars and was adapted from a novella written by crime fiction writer James M. Cain. Other movies include The Killers(1946) loosely based on Ernest Hemmingway’s short story, The Lady from Shanghai (1947) directed by the auteur Orson Welles, Thieves Highway (1949) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955) based on novels by A. I. Bezzerides, In a lonely Place(1950) directed by Nicholas Ray and considered as the noir-classic. Neo – Noir films such as Blade Runner (1982), the popular sci-fi thriller noir film and LA Confidential (1997) an adaptation known to give a true depiction of LA will also be screened during the three days. Neo-noir film establishes a much more frightening and grim reality than what was established in the noir films of the 1940s and 1950s.
Film Noir or the Black Cinema was coined by French critic Nino Frank to describe the genres of detective, gangster, crime and melodramatic films. Guns, Cigarettes, Hats, femme fatales wearing sensual makeup and plunging necklines, mixing drinks with their gangster beaus marked a typical movie of the genre.
Through these films, important techniques of noir and auteurs of the genre like director Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray,Robert Aldrich etc. will be explored. Learn more about this genre through the interactive sessions on such topics after the movie screening. Come discover the world of heroes and antiheroes, mobsters, killers, criminal milieu, expressionistic lighting and shadows with a free entry for all. Few lucky visitors can also get a chance to win full-size posters of the movie through a review writing competition and by answering fun quiz after the screening.
Schedule :
8th May 2014, 3:30 pm
Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder (1944), 107 Min
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud
scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
8th May 2014, 6:15 pm
The Killers by Robert Siodmak (1946), 103Min
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his
past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
9th May 2014, 3:30 pm
The Lady from Shanghai by Orson Welles (1947), 87 Min
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a
bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
9th May 2014, 6:15 pm
Thieves Highway by Jules Dassin (1949), 94 Min
A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and
robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
10th May, 12:00 pm
In a lonely Place By Nicholas Ray (1950), 94 Min
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely
neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts...
10th May, 2:00 pm
Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Aldrich (1955), 106 Min
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of
intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit."
10th May, 4:00 pm
Blade Runner Ridley Scott (1982), 117 Min
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole
a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
10th May, 6:30 pm
LA Confidential by Curtis Hanson (1997), 138 Min
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - the straight-laced, the
brutal, and the sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand
of justice.
Related Events : Movies
Cinedarbaar presents 'Film Noir' Film Festival at American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 8th, 9th & 10th May 2014
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