Downtown Lawrence Film Noir Festival kicks off

By Alaide Vilchis

Monday, June 11, 2007

About 200 students and members of the community gathered with lawn chairs and blankets on June 7 to attend the first Downtown Lawrence Film Noir Festival.

The festival, which is set in the lawn next to the parking garage on 9th St. and New Hemisphere, began at 8 p.m. with live jazz music and a prize give-away.

The film “In a Lonely Place,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, is the story of a screenwriter who is suspected of murder.

Rick Marquez, executive director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc., said that the Film Noir was chosen to present to the Lawrence community for their attraction to the general public.

“They are wonderful films, have recognizable stars and directors, and are appropriate to screen in a public setting,” Marquez said.

Attendants enjoyed the film but were surprised by how many people showed up.

“It is pretty amazing to see how many people came here today even though there are so many other things going on, like the Wakarusa festival,” Amanda Diercks. Agra junior, said.

The film was the first of a series of others that will be shown the first Thursday of every month until September.

UPCOMING MOVIES

July 5, 2007 8:00pm (film starts at 9:15)

Double Indemnity

Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck

Universal Pictures; Directed by Billy Wilder

Black and White; Not Rated; 107 minutes; 1944

Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), an insurance agent, and Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), a greedy blonde bombshell, plot to bump off Phyllis’ husband and collect the premiums. Leaving behind the standard New York setting of lower-class crime, this definitive film-noir of the ‘40s takes place in a California of shady streets, supermarkets, and stucco houses.

August 2, 2007 8:00pm (film starts at 9:15)

The Big Clock

Stars: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton

Universal; Directed by John Farrow

Black and White; Not Rated; 95 minutes; 1948

In this first-rate thriller, the ace reporter for a crime magazine sets out to solve a murder and discovers that his powerful publisher did it. Framed for the crime, the reporter hides under the world's largest clock in the compelling climax to this film-noir classic.

September 6, 2007 8:00pm (film starts at 9:15)

Criss Cross

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo

Universal Pictures; Directed by Robert Siodmak

Black and White; Not Rated; 87 minutes; 1949

This expertly knit, low-key thriller with a famous heist sequence tells of two crooks who pull off a robbery and then try to destroy each other.

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