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Film Noir Festival
What Makes a Film “Noir”?
Jeanine Basinger, Film Historian and Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University talks about how noir films make meaning through a skillful manipulation of cinematic form and narrative structure. The world of film noir is filled with pain and disillusionment, and populated with tough guys, femmes fatales, and gullible suckers.
Downtown Library, Program Room 3rd Floor
Saturday, March 29, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Double Indemnity, 1944
Barbara Stanwyck plays the ultimate femme fatale.
Wadsworth Atheneum Aetna Theater
600 Main Street
Saturday, March 8, 2:00 p.m.
 The Maltese Falcon, 1941
Director John Huston’s debut featuring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.
Real Art Ways
30 Arbor Street
Sunday, March 9, 1:30 p.m.
Laura, 1944
Academy Award Winner for Best Black-and-White Cinematography.
Downtown Library, Program Room 3rd Floor
Wednesday, March 12, 6:30 p.m.
The Big Sleep, 1946
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe performed by Humphrey Bogart.
Downtown Library, Program Room 3rd Floor
Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 p.m.
Out of the Past, 1947
Robert Mitchum, in absolute prime, sleepy-eyed form, gets hired by gangster Kirk Douglas to find femme fatale Jane Greer.
Park Branch
Saturday, March 22, 1:00 p.m.
Nightmare Alley, 1947
Tyrone Power plays the rise and fall of carnie con-man Stanton Carlisle.
Camp Field Branch
Thursday, April 3, 5:30 p.m.
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This project is part of the Big Read, an initiative of
the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with
the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts
Midwest.
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