Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Oct 20, 2024 3:45pm
Details
The Silent Cinema Showcase returns with another selection of newly restored screen classics and rare gems from the silent era.
THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE aka I BECAME A CRIMINAL
A harrowing thriller made in England contemporaneously with America's rising noir tide, but more uncompromising thanks to the absence of Hollywood's Production Code. Trevor Howard plays Clem Morgan, a down-at-heel World War II veteran who falls in with a ring of black marketeers. After being framed for murder, Clem is sentenced to Dartmoor Prison — only to escape in search of vengeance. A big success in England in 1947, it helped spur the nation's postwar noir movement. (Note courtesy of Noir City.) DIR Alberto Cavalcanti; SCR Noel Langley, from the novel "A Convict Has Escaped" by Jackson Budd; PROD N.A. Bronsten. UK, 1947, b&w, 78 min. NOT RATED
Followed by:
2K Restoration
AIMLESS BULLET [OBALTAN] [오발탄]
Often heralded as the most significant Korean film of all time, AIMLESS BULLET is both a crime drama and a critique of Korean life in the years following the 1953 armistice between North and South Korea. A Seoul salaryman struggles to provide for his family while stoically enduring an excruciating toothache. Things turn steadily darker when his younger brother, an angry war vet, turns to crime and his sister becomes a prostitute. Hollywood noir seems like a victory parade in comparison to the despair displayed here, which got the film banned by the South Korean government. (Note courtesy of Noir City.) DIR Yu Hyun-mok; SCR Lee I-ryeong, Lee Jong-gi, from the novella by Lee Beom-seon; PROD Kim Seong-chun. South Korea, 1961, b&w, 110 min. In Korean with English subtitles. NOT RATED
