Raw Deal
(Movies) WhenNovember 17, 2018 <m>(Saturday)WhereCinema 21616 NW 21st Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209 (US)
Website: http://www.cinema21.com
Event Details
An 8 week film studies course presented by Oregon State University, taught by film scholar Elliot Lavine
The eight films to be screened:
1. I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941; H. Bruce Humberstone) Sept 29
2. PHANTOM LADY (1944; Robert Siodmak) Oct 6
3. DETOUR (1945; Edgar G. Ulmer) Oct 13
4. SCARLET STREET (1945; Fritz Lang) Oct 20
5. OUT OF THE PAST (1947; Jacques Tourneur) Oct 27
6. NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947; Edmond Goulding) Nov 3
7. THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948; Nicholas Ray) Nov 108. RAW DEAL (1948; Anthony Mann) Nov 17
FILM NOIR AND THE PRIMACY OF THE VISUAL
FILM NOIR, as a dominant and influential cinematic style, first exploded across American movie screens in 1940. And almost immediately, Hollywood studios seized upon this exciting new direction for crime films -- a dramatically startling combination of German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s and French poetic realism films of the 30s, blended into a harshly modern cocktail of chiaroscuro lighting, psychologically aberrant behavior, and the unmistakable feeling that Fate (or some other mysterious force) would inevitably play a role in the final outcome. The films selected for this eight-week class represent the cream of the 1940s crop of noir films.
Showing: September 29-November 17
Showtimes: Saturdays at 11 am.