Nicholas Ray

5/18/03 to 6/20/03

  • In a Lonely Place, May 24

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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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES

    • Saturday, June 7

    Burl Ives is the charismatic king of the Florida poachers in this strangely ravishing ecological Western.

  • THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES

    • Saturday, June 7 7:00

    Ray transforms an American legend into a personal study of displaced, disenchanted youth.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • BIGGER THAN LIFE

    • Saturday, May 31

    Featuring a brilliant performance by James Mason, this searing CinemaScope saga of fifties suburban psychosis is essential Ray.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A WOMAN'S SECRET

    • Sunday, May 18 7:25

    Gloria Grahame glitters in a twisting tale of showbiz betrayal.