Tumultes + Justin de Marseille
Before/After Hollywood: Siodmak/Tourneur: two very different criminals are showcased in the first of two days of “film club” programming in the Little Roxie.
Tumultes
6:45 PM Robert Siodmak, moving to France from Germany before becoming the “master of film noir” in Hollywood, brings us the choleric, disgruntled Ralph Schwarz (Charles Boyer), an impulsive man who is his own worst enemy. Jealousy and paranoia envelop him as he tries to put his life back together after being released from prison. In TUMULTES, Boyer indelibly captures film noir’s first unredeemable hero. (1932, dir. Robert Siodmak, 92m)
Justin de Marseille
8:30 PM It’s followed by a totally different type of criminal, as Maurice Tourneur (father of Jacques) chronicles the colorful gangster world at France’s southern port city in JUSTIN DE MARSEILLE. His flamboyant hero (a dynamic Antonin Berval) is embroiled in turf wars, complicated love affairs, and escalating danger—it’s a gangster film whose Gallic flair gives it a panache that is absent from its American counterparts. (1935, dir. Maurice Tourneur, 95m)
Midcentury Productions’ THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT ’24- Part One features 14 rarely seen films, adding to the astonishing rediscoveries that the series has been unearthing since 2014. Seven spectacular films—including a landmark screening of the 1934 version of France’s LES MISÉRABLES—are highlighted in the Big Roxie on October 3rd, 6th and 7th, while seven even deeper dives into “the lost continent” play in the Little Roxie screening room on October 4th and 5th.
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