Nicholas Ray

5/18/03 to 6/20/03

  • In a Lonely Place, May 24

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  • A WOMAN'S SECRET

    Sunday, May 18 7:25
    Gloria Grahame glitters in a twisting tale of showbiz betrayal.
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  • THEY LIVE BY NIGHT

    Sunday, May 18 5:30
    Ray's lyrical, passionate debut following a pair of fugitive innocents influenced films from Pierrot le Fou to Bonnie and Clyde.
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  • FLYING LEATHERNECKS

    Friday, May 23 9:25
    John Wayne and Robert Ryan are antagonistic officers in a WWII saga that delivers blazing battle scenes without conventional heroics.
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  • BORN TO BE BAD

    Friday, May 23 7:30
    Ruthless romantic schemer Joan Fontaine meets her match in Robert Ryan. "Rigorously unsentimental...beautifully staged and photographed...with a nice comic tartness." -James Harvey
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  • KNOCK ON ANY DOOR

    Saturday, May 24 7:00
    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
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  • IN A LONELY PLACE

    Saturday, May 24
    Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. "Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring."-Time Out
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  • THE LUSTY MEN

    Sunday, May 25 7:40
    Emotionally rich, socially insightful, beautifully filmed story of fifties rodeo rider Robert Mitchum, cowboy Arthur Kennedy, and conflicted wife Susan Hayward.
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  • JOHNNY GUITAR

    Sunday, May 25 5:30
    Saloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in a baroque, gender-bending Western passion play.
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  • I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF

    Thursday, May 29 7:30
    Introduced by Myron Meisel. An illuminating documentary on Ray, with short The High Green Wall, a jungle tale "directed by Ray with full mastery of his medium."-Bernard Eisenschitz
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  • RUN FOR COVER

    Friday, May 30 9:15
    James Cagney in "a strangely gentle, even poignant Western...Ray's sensitive handling of actors and his exact compositional sense are as much in evidence as ever."-Time Out
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  • ON DANGEROUS GROUND

    Friday, May 30 7:30
    On a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir.
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  • REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

    Saturday, May 31 7:00
    James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence.
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  • BIGGER THAN LIFE

    Saturday, May 31
    Featuring a brilliant performance by James Mason, this searing CinemaScope saga of fifties suburban psychosis is essential Ray.
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  • HOT BLOOD

    Friday, June 6 9:30
    Jane Russell generates plenty of heat in a bold and brassy gypsy spectacle. "Intelligent, devil-may-care film, bursting with health and life." -François Truffaut
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  • PARTY GIRL

    Friday, June 6 7:30
    Ray shows characteristic visual flair in this gangland tale, set in a stylized Chicago and starring Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse.
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  • THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES

    Saturday, June 7 7:00
    Ray transforms an American legend into a personal study of displaced, disenchanted youth.
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  • WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES

    Saturday, June 7
    Burl Ives is the charismatic king of the Florida poachers in this strangely ravishing ecological Western.
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  • WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN

    Thursday, June 12 7:30
    A collaboration between Ray and his students, this rare, legendary film encapsulates the experimental spirit and the desperation of its early-1970s moment.
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  • KING OF KINGS

    Friday, June 13 7:30
    Ray's imaginative, intelligent take on the life of Christ inspired Martin Scorsese. "Ray's simple but elegant visuals… achieve a stirring dramatic power."-Time Out
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  • BITTER VICTORY

    Saturday, June 14
    Set in the Libyan desert in 1942, a war drama of bitter paradoxes and a breakthrough in the realist aesthetic. With Richard Burton.
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  • THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS

    Saturday, June 14 7:00
    Anthony Quinn the Eskimo is pursued through the Canadian Arctic. "One of Ray's most powerful films about honor and alien folkways, and the icy landscapes are hauntingly beautiful." -Chicago Reader
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  • 55 DAYS AT PEKING

    Friday, June 20 7:30
    The Boxer Rebellion makes a sweeping backdrop for a love affair between Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner. "Full of delicious moments as Ray's camera cranes and swoops around his protagonists, almost taking us back to the nervous grandeur of Johnny Guitar."-Time Out
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