FILM NOIR FANS! Join Foster Hirsch in Person, "The DEAN of Film Noir" - and JOAN CRAWFORD in "SUDDEN FEAR"

Join renowned film expert, author and Cinema Arts Centre favorite FOSTER HIRSCH in PERSON - The "DEAN OF FILM NOIR" -  for a book signing of his lushly illustrated, indispensable THE DARK SIDE OF THE SCREEN - along with a rare 35mm screening of the Noir classic SUDDEN FEAR.  Starring JOAN CRAWFORD as a playwright in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with her murderous husband JACK PALANCE (1952)

$10 Members • $15 Public • Screening – Discussion – Reception – Book Signing

http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/event/sudden-fear/

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, the Cinema is pleased to film noir, Sudden Fear, starring “The Biggest Mother of them All” – Joan Crawford (Mommie Dearest herself).

Joan Crawford turns in one of the most emotionally charged performances of her career as a playwright who must use her plotting skills to save her own life, in this beautifully crafted film noir thriller. Jack Palance co-stars as her devious husband, and the always sultry Gloria Grahame is perfect as the other woman. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Crawford, Sudden Fear is an unbeatable combination of lush melodrama and drop-dead suspense.
Sudden Fear is Joan Crawford at her worst – which means, of course, at her very best!

BOOK:  Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, is both compelling reading as well as the classic text on the most original and influential genre of American cinema. Presenting over a hundred outstanding films with more than two hundred carefully chosen stills, this landmark work covers iconic performances of Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, and Humphrey Bogart to the camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize the work of directors Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.  -  Required Reading – or else!

FOSTER HIRSCH: Foster Hirsch, Professor at Brooklyn College, is a pioneer in the development of Film Studies and author of more than a score of important books ranging from works about Woody Allen, the Actors Studio and American theater to his magisterial biography, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King.  His current work-in-progress is a sprawling study of film during the crucial transition period of the 1950s.

Curated by Dr. Jud Newborn, CAC Special Events Curator