Film Noir Classics…………………Hosted by “The Dean of Film
Noir,” Professor Foster Hirsch
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Monday, August 29 at 7:30pm
$10 Members | $15 Public – Includes Book Signing Reception
This event is sponsored by AARP. AARP Members will receive the CAC Member price of $10.
In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, directed
by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious
Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney
Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the
up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously
unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford
Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from
Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of
Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed
wilds of 1950s Manhattan. (USA, 1957, 96 min. | Dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
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.
Enjoy transcendent live music by the trio Moontide in
our café before and after the film.