Restored Film Noir classics with a special introduction by Eisner Award winning New Yorker cartoonist Paul Karasik. Paul has selected three films shot by cinematographer John Alton, one of the architects of Noir, for this screening series.
Join us in the lobby beforehand for a glass of Pinot Noir and Dark Chocolate.
Two U.S. Treasury agents (Dennis O’Keefe, Alfred Ryder) pose as mobsters to bust a counterfeiting ring.
“Visually brilliant, powerful thriller.” – Classic Film and Television
“Subtext is king in Anthony Mann’s noirs, with engrossing, underlying social, political, and psychological traumas compensating for caricatural dialogue, monotonous performances, and plodding plot twists.” – Slant Magazine
Paul Karasik has selected these films as prime examples of Must-See Film Noir. Paul is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker and whose graphic novels have been translated worldwide.
