Fallen Idols: Graham Greene on Screen
October 6–28, 2017
Films written by Greene or based on his fiction illustrate his famous axiom: “human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”
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The Third Man
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Our Man in Havana
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Brighton Rock
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Went the Day Well?
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The Fallen Idol
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Ministry of Fear
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The Third Man
Carol Reed
United Kingdom, 1949Digital Restoration
Friday, October 6 7 PMView DetailsJoseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
Went the Day Well?
Alberto Cavalcanti
United Kingdom, 1942Saturday, October 7 5:30 PMView DetailsAn unsuspecting British village is infiltrated by sixty German paratroopers in “a wartime conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare and a surrealist masterpiece” (Guardian), based on a Graham Greene story.
Our Man in Havana
Carol Reed
United Kingdom, 19604K Digital Restoration
Saturday, October 14 5:45 PMView DetailsA vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba turns to international espionage in this droll spy spoof from a quartet of formidable Englishmen—actors Alec Guinness and Noel Coward, writer Graham Greene, and director Carol Reed.
The Fallen Idol
Carol Reed
United Kingdom, 1948Sunday, October 15 4:30 PMView DetailsGraham Greene and Carol Reed’s gripping, gorgeously visualized thriller about a boy, a butler, and the butler’s secrets “reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at its peak” (New York Observer).
Brighton Rock
John Boulting
United Kingdom, 1947Saturday, October 21 8:15 PMView DetailsRichard Attenborough stars as a teenage psychopath leading a gang of toughs in Brighton, Britain’s seedy seaside resort. “The best film to capture [Graham] Greene’s seedy world of evil, sin, and betrayal” (The Observer).
Our Man in Havana
Carol Reed
United Kingdom, 19604K Digital Restoration
Friday, October 27 4 PMView DetailsA vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba turns to international espionage in this droll spy spoof from a quartet of formidable Englishmen—actors Alec Guinness and Noel Coward, writer Graham Greene, and director Carol Reed.
Ministry of Fear
Fritz Lang
United States, 1944Saturday, October 28 8:15 PMView DetailsRay Milland is released from an asylum into an even stranger milieu—wartime London, stalked by Nazi spies—in Fritz Lang’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. “A tour de force of paranoia” (Cinematheque Ontario).