Mann's World

1/17/04 to 2/21/04

  • The Man from Laramie, February 13

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  • The Tin Star

    • Saturday, February 21 8:40 PM

    Aging bounty hunter Henry Fonda teaches sheriff Tony Perkins the tricks of the trade; Mann elicits fine performances from both.

  • He Walked by Night

    • Saturday, February 21 7:00 PM

    "Taken (or so the studio claims) from actual police files. Location shooting in the relentlessly realistic tradition of T-Men and Canon City is highlighted by the final shoot-out in the L. A. drainage tunnel system....A gritty masterpiece!"-Errol Morris

  • God's Little Acre

    • Friday, February 20 7:00 PM

    Mann crafts a study of family and crazy ambition from Erskine Caldwell's sensational novel, with Robert Ryan searching the farm for his grandpappy's gold. "A rustic revel with the kick of a Georgia mule."-Variety, 1958

  • Man of the West

    • Friday, February 20 9:10 PM

    Gary Cooper struggles against a violent past returning to claim him. "A superb Western, exemplifying Mann's capacity for integrating his interest in spectacle with a resonant narrative fully deserving the adjective 'classic.'"-Time Out

  • El Cid

    • Saturday, February 14 7:30 PM

    Charlton Heston as the warrior-hero of 11th-century Spain. "One of the greatest epic films ever made. Mann's sense of composition, his use of space, and his graceful camera movements bring to life an ancient tapestry where the transformation of an ordinary man into a legend becomes almost a mystical experience."-Martin Scorsese

  • The Man from Laramie

    • Friday, February 13 7:30 pm

    Starring James Stewart, "a taut vengeance tale that fills the CinemaScope screen with unexpected violence as harsh as the New Mexico landscape."-Scott Simmon

  • Men in War

    • Friday, February 13 9:30 pm

    A Korean War platoon, led by Robert Ryan, is stranded in a beautiful but hostile landscape. "With the possible exception of Sam Fuller, no other American director has so vividly caught the atmosphere of battle."-NFT, London

  • The Great Flamarion

    • Friday, February 6 7:30 pm

    Erich von Stroheim stars in an entertaining, early Mann noir of death and double dealing among vaudevillians.

  • Strange Impersonation

    • Friday, February 6 9:10 pm

    This peculiar little picture may have invented a new genre: the mad-scientist noir romantic melodrama.

  • The Naked Spur

    • Saturday, January 31 7:00 PM

    Bounty hunter James Stewart wages psychological warfare against Robert Ryan in "one of the very best Anthony Mann Westerns-which means one of the very best Westerns, period."-Chicago Reader. Also starring Janet Leigh and the Colorado Rockies.

  • The Tall Target

    • Saturday, January 31 8:50 pm

    On a train to Washington in 1861, a detective eerily named Jack Kennedy tries to foil a plot to assassinate Lincoln. "You could cut the mood here with a knife."-Chicago Reader

  • Winchester '73

    • Friday, January 30 9:10 PM

    The first of Mann's Westerns with James Stewart, this "sprawling, picaresque tale of a feud between two brothers...broke new ground in soiling Stewart's white hat and launching him on a path of neuroticism and blood-guilt retribution."-Village Voice

  • Devil's Doorway

    • Friday, January 30 7:00 PM

    Introduced by Scott Simmon. Mann's last film with John Alton is a cynical critique of the mistreatment of Native Americans. "Anyone who wants to know what a real Western is...has to have seen Devil's Doorway."-André Bazin

  • Border Incident

    • Saturday, January 24 7:00 PM

    Mann and cinematographer John Alton work the border between Western and noir in this incredibly tense, if scenic, tale of immigration agents and human smuggling.

  • The Black Book

    • Saturday, January 24 8:50 PM

    Alton's cinematography evokes a nocturnal Paris in this brooding, McCarthy-era melodrama of the French Revolution, also known as Reign of Terror.

  • The Furies

    • Friday, January 23 7:00 PM

    Strong-willed Barbara Stanwyck's love-hate relationship with cattle-baron father Walter Huston takes on the proportions of Greek tragedy in "one of the darkest Westerns ever made."-S.F. Chronicle

  • Side Street

    • Friday, January 23 9:10 PM

    In this downbeat drama with Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell, "Manhattan's a maze for hapless rats...as Mann shoots it-in almost Rossellinian overhead angles and with...scrupulous, crystal-clear regard for landscape."-Village Voice

  • Desperate

    • Saturday, January 17 6:00 pm

    A newlywed Everycouple flees the Mob and the law in the first and least known of Mann's celebrated film noir cycle.

  • T-Men

    • Saturday, January 17 7:35 pm

    Undercover Treasury agents inhabit a twilit moral universe in this documentary-style noir shot by the great John Alton.

  • Raw Deal

    • Saturday, January 17 9:30 pm

    In another stylish, shadowy Mann/Alton collaboration from the '40s, "the violence, both physical and emotional, is still shocking."-Chicago Reader