On Dangerous Ground: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray
January 19–February 25, 2017
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
They Live by Night
Nicholas Ray
United States, 194935mm Archival Print
Thursday, January 19 7 PMView DetailsRay's lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents and influenced films from Pierrot le fou to Bonnie and Clyde.
Knock on Any Door
Nicholas Ray
United States, 194935mm Archival Print
Saturday, January 21 6 PMView DetailsBogey'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
Nicholas Ray
United States, 194935mm Archival Print
Sunday, January 22 2 PMView DetailsRay's lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents and influenced films from Pierrot le fou to Bonnie and Clyde.
Knock on Any Door
Nicholas Ray
United States, 194935mm Archival Print
Sunday, January 22 4:15 PMView DetailsBogey's impassioned turn as a socially conscious lawyer for John Derek's pretty-boy criminal is audaciously filmed. "Hard-hitting, tautly crafted" (Time Out).
In A Lonely Place
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1950Also screens on 1.18.17 in In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders
Saturday, January 28 8 PMView DetailsHumphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. "Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring" (Time Out).
Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray
United States, 195535mm 'Scope Print
Sunday, January 29 7 PMView DetailsJames Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence.
The True Story of Jesse James
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1957Friday, February 3 7 PMView DetailsRay transforms an American legend into a personal study of displaced, disenchanted youth.
Party Girl
Nicholas Ray
United States, 195835mm 'Scope Print
Saturday, February 4 4 PMView DetailsRay shows characteristic visual flair in this gangland tale, set in a stylized Chicago and starring Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse.
On Dangerous Ground
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1951Saturday, February 4 6:30 PMView DetailsOn a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir.
The Lusty Men
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1952Sunday, February 5 7 PMView DetailsEmotionally rich, socially insightful, beautifully filmed story of fifties rodeo rider Robert Mitchum, cowboy Arthur Kennedy, and conflicted wife Susan Hayward.
On Dangerous Ground
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1951Friday, February 10 4 PMView DetailsOn a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir.
Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray
United States, 195535mm 'Scope Print
Saturday, February 11 4 PMView DetailsJames Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence.
Johnny Guitar
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1954Saturday, February 11 6:15 PMView DetailsSaloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in a baroque, gender-bending Western passion play.
Johnny Guitar
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1954Sunday, February 12 4:30 PMView DetailsSaloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in a baroque, gender-bending Western passion play.
Bigger Than Life
Nicholas Ray
United States, 195635mm 'Scope Print
Also screens on 2.8.17 in In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders
Saturday, February 18 6 PMView DetailsFeaturing a brilliant performance by James Mason, this searing CinemaScope saga of fifties suburban psychosis is essential Ray.
Bitter Victory
Nicholas Ray
United States, 1957Restored Full-Length ‘Scope Print
Saturday, February 25 5 PMView DetailsSet in the Libyan desert in 1942, a war drama of bitter paradoxes and a breakthrough in the realist aesthetic. With Richard Burton.











