Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis

8/1/08 to 8/23/08

Filmmakers have long found sordid inspiration in the dead-end tales of pulp writer David Goodis. In films by Jacques Tourneur, François Truffaut, and many others, this series explores a noir universe peopled with tormented losers and doomed lowlifes, where Goodis's obsessions are written-or rewritten-on the screen.

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  • Moon in the Gutter, August 23

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  • Dark Passage

    Friday, August 1 7:00 pm
    Introduced by Barry Gifford. A prison escapee has plastic surgery and turns out to be Humphrey Bogart: Delmer Daves experiments with a subjective camera in this S.F.-set noir. With Lauren Bacall.
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  • The Unfaithful

    Friday, August 1 9:15 pm
    Introduction by Dan Hodges. Ann Sheridan is a wartime adulteress who pays the price when the troops come home in this dank drama.
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  • Shoot the Piano Player

    Saturday, August 2 6:30 pm
    Introduced by Mike White. A brand-new print of Truffaut's frolicsome yet faithful genre pastiche, starring a hangdog Charles Aznavour. Repeated on August 5.
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  • Shoot the Piano Player

    Tuesday, August 5 7:30 pm
    See August 2.
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  • Nightfall

    Thursday, August 7 6:30 pm
    Introduced by Eddie Muller. Jacques Tourneur's noir unravels fall guy Aldo Ray's paranoid past. With stunning outdoor cinematography by Burnett Guffey.
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  • The Burglar

    Thursday, August 7 8:30 pm
    Introduced by Eddie Muller. A miasma of incestuous desire hangs over thief Dan Duryea and sister Jayne Mansfield in Goodis's pulpy plot.
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  • Descent into Hell

    Sunday, August 10 7:00 pm
    A boozehound author and his chilly wife go to the tropics to revive their marriage, but Haiti becomes a stand-in for hell.
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  • The Burglars

    Thursday, August 14 6:30 pm
    Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, this French retooling of The Burglar shifts the action to Greece, with a famed car chase as centerpiece of the high-speed caper.
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  • The Professional Man x Two

    Thursday, August 21 6:30 pm
    Nicholas Kazan in Person. Kazan and Steven Soderbergh directed two totally different TV takes on the same Goodis story.
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  • And Hope to Die

    Thursday, August 21 8:30 pm
    Jean-Louis Trintignant and Robert Ryan in René Clément's study of pent-up rivalries in a claustrophobic gangland hideout.
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  • Moon in the Gutter

    Saturday, August 23 6:30 pm
    Introduced by Elliot Lavine. Jean-Jacques Beineix evokes Goodis's murky and haunted world with sinister artifice. Starring Gérard Depardieu and Nastassia Kinski.
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