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

  • Our Man in Havana

  • Brighton Rock

  • Went the Day Well?

  • The Fallen Idol

  • Ministry of Fear

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  • The Third Man

    Carol Reed
    United Kingdom, 1949

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    Friday, October 6 7 PM

    Joseph 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).

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  • Went the Day Well?

    Alberto Cavalcanti
    United Kingdom, 1942
    Saturday, October 7 5:30 PM

    An 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.

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  • Our Man in Havana

    Carol Reed
    United Kingdom, 1960

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    Saturday, October 14 5:45 PM

    A 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.

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  • The Fallen Idol

    Carol Reed
    United Kingdom, 1948
    Sunday, October 15 4:30 PM

    Graham 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).

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  • Brighton Rock

    John Boulting
    United Kingdom, 1947
    Saturday, October 21 8:15 PM

    Richard 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).

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  • Our Man in Havana

    Carol Reed
    United Kingdom, 1960

    4K Digital Restoration

    Friday, October 27 4 PM

    A 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.

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  • Ministry of Fear

    Fritz Lang
    United States, 1944
    Saturday, October 28 8:15 PM

    Ray 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).

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