TRUE CRIME - Film Forum
网页TRUE CRIME. Series through Wednesday, August 5. PROGRAMMED BY BRUCE GOLDSTEIN. SERIES ADVISORS: Jim Healy ...
THE PHENIX CITY STORY and HE WALKED BY NIGHT - Film Forum
网页THE PHENIX CITY STORY (1955, Phil Karlson) Near-documentary treatment — based on fact and filmed on the real locations — of lawyer Richard Kiley’s return to clean up his crime- ridden hometown of Phenix, Alabama. Approx. 100 min. 35mm. 2:10, 5:50, 9:30 “Gritty and hard... every bit as sleazy as the subject it treats.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader HE …
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER - Film Forum
网页HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER Pages & Showtimes 1. Thursday, July 30: 10:15 ONLY Subheadline: Introduced by Director John McNaughton via Skype (1986, John McNaughton) After watching the homemade video of their massacre of a suburban family, Michael Rooker’s Henry and his drug-dealing accomplice decide to ... watch it again. …
Film Forum · IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES
网页IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES Pages & Showtimes 1. Thursday, July 16: 9:50 ONLY (1976, NaGisa Ôshima) In 1936, restaurateur Tatsuya Fuji and maid/ex-prostitute Eiko Matsuda pursue their lovemaking obsessions to the sadomasochistic limits. Based on the headline-making Sada Abe case, this was the first hardcore/explicit work from a major …
Film Forum · THE UNTOUCHABLES and SUGARLAND EXPRESS
网页Approx. 119 min. DCP. 12:45, 5:15, 9:40 SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974, Steven Spielberg) In desperate trek to get their kids, Goldie Hawn and William Atherton’s kidnapping of a highway patrolman in his own cruiser expands to a low- speed hundred-car chase. Spielberg’s first theatrical feature is “one of the most phenominal debut films in the ...
Film Forum · MEMORIES OF MURDER
网页MEMORIES OF MURDER Pages & Showtimes 1. Saturday, July 18: 4:50 2. Saturday, July 25: 4:40 (2003, Bong Joon-ho) 1986, the last year of dictatorship: and even the arrival of a Seoul detective can’t keep Song Kang-Ho’s hayseed cops from alternating between farcical incompetence and boot-stomping coercion as the strangled female corpses pile up.
10 RILLINGTON PLACE and THE BOSTON STRANGLER - Film Forum
网页3:00, 7:25. Friday, July 24 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1971, Richard Fleischer) “What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place?” queried the ads. Two guesses. In 1948, Welsh blue collar worker John Hurt and wife Judy Geeson, lodgers upstairs from mild- mannered John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) and wife, already have trouble ...
SERPICO - Film Forum
网页SERPICO Pages & Showtimes 1. Sunday, July 26: 3:20, 5:50, 8:20 (1973, Sidney Lumet) Al Pacino’s Frank Serpico flashes back from his beginnings as a naive, idealistic police recruit to a bearded, hippie-like undercover detective in a relentless mission against corrupt cops. Pacino’s powerhouse performance as the actual hero cop vaulted him to the front ranks …
THE WRONG MAN and BOOMERANG! - Film Forum
网页THE WRONG MAN (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) Returning at dawn to Jackson Returning at dawn to Jackson Heights, Stork Club bass player Henry Fonda finds himself trapped in a classic mistaken-identity case. Shot in ruthlessly restrained semi-doc style on the locations of the actual case, with harrowing sequences of Fonda’s booking and arraignment, and …
Film Forum · DONNIE BRASCO
网页(1997, Mike Newell) “30 years, I’m bustin’ my hump... for what?,” complains mobster Al Pacino — in one of his most sympathetic, low-key performances — but his crime protégé, Johnny Depp’s “Donnie,” has even worse job fatigue — he’s actually undercover FBI agent John Pistone (the real one served as consultant), frightened that, in his sixth year on the …