SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

Film Noir Classics Hosted by “The Dean of Film Noir,” Professor Foster Hirsch

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Mon, Aug 29, 2016 7:30 PM

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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 HoweSweet 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.