On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray

January 19–February 25, 2017

  • Rebel Without a Cause

  • On Dangerous Ground

  • They Live by Night

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • Bitter Victory

    • Saturday, February 25 5 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1957

    Restored Full-Length ‘Scope Print

    Set in the Libyan desert in 1942, a war drama of bitter paradoxes and a breakthrough in the realist aesthetic. With Richard Burton.

     

  • Bigger Than Life

    • Saturday, February 18 6 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1956

    35mm 'Scope Print

    Also screens on 2.8.17 in In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders

    Featuring a brilliant performance by James Mason, this searing CinemaScope saga of fifties suburban psychosis is essential Ray.

  • Johnny Guitar

    • Saturday, February 11 6:15 PM
    • Sunday, February 12 4:30 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1954

    Saloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in a baroque, gender-bending Western passion play.

  • Rebel Without a Cause

    • Sunday, January 29 7 PM
    • Saturday, February 11 4 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1955

    35mm 'Scope Print

    James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence.

  • On Dangerous Ground

    • Saturday, February 4 6:30 PM
    • Friday, February 10 4 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1951

    On a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir.

     

  • The Lusty Men

    • Sunday, February 5 7 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1952

    Emotionally rich, socially insightful, beautifully filmed story of fifties rodeo rider Robert Mitchum, cowboy Arthur Kennedy, and conflicted wife Susan Hayward.

     

  • Party Girl

    • Saturday, February 4 4 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1958

    35mm 'Scope Print

    Ray shows characteristic visual flair in this gangland tale, set in a stylized Chicago and starring Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse.

  • The True Story of Jesse James

    • Friday, February 3 7 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1957

    Ray transforms an American legend into a personal study of displaced, disenchanted youth.

  • In A Lonely Place

    • Saturday, January 28 8 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1950

    Also screens on 1.18.17 in In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders

    Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. "Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring" (Time Out).

     

  • Knock on Any Door

    • Saturday, January 21 6 PM
    • Sunday, January 22 4:15 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1949

    35mm Archival Print

    Bogey's impassioned turn as a socially conscious lawyer for John Derek's pretty-boy criminal is audaciously filmed. "Hard-hitting, tautly crafted" (Time Out).

     

  • They Live by Night

    • Thursday, January 19 7 PM
    • Sunday, January 22 2 PM
    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1949

    35mm Archival Print

    Ray's lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents and influenced films from Pierrot le fou to Bonnie and Clyde.