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NOIR CITY: The Asphalt Jungle & Symphony for a Massacre (Symphonie pour un massacre)

Noir City: Philadelphia
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    NOIR CITY, the most popular film noir festival in the world, returns to the Colonial Theatre.  Join us for a 3-day extravaganza featuring 10 films with the theme “Darkness Has No Borders.”Eddie Muller has curated all the films and paired them for specific reasons. Eddie will reveal that reason at the event. 

    “This year’s NOIR CITY program is tailored to satisfy folks who love noir that’s full of the colorful vernacular slang so essential to American and British noir—as well as adventurous viewers intrigued by a familiar story–a crime committed for passion or profit—playing out in cultures with different values, mores, and styles.” —Eddie Muller

    Purchase a double feature ticket using the button to the left or an individual ticket to either The Asphalt Jungle or Symphony for a Massacre using the buttons below.

    SINGLE TICKET FOR THE ASPHALT JUNGLESINGLE TICKET FOR SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE

     

    THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
    A landmark in the history of crime movies and the progenitor of all heist films that followed. John Huston had provided the script for Raoul Walsh’s 1940 film version of author W.R. Burnett’s outlaw saga High Sierra and, ten years later, he snapped up Burnett’s latest crime novel to direct himself. The film had an immediate and lasting impact on crime movies and literature. It subverted the Production Code by making its criminals working professionals with whom audiences empathized. Vivid and note-perfect.

    UNITED STATES (1950) Dir. John Huston. 112 min. DCP.

    SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE (SYMPHONIE POUR UN MASSACRE)
    Perhaps the ultimate heist double-cross movie. A quintet of Parisian businessmen go in on a drug deal, but one of them has a daring plan to hijack the loot and run off with a comrade’s wife. A start-to-finish nail-biter co-scripted by the controversial José Giovanni (who also costars) and directed by thriller specialist Jacques Deray (La Piscine, A Bigger Splash). In French with English subtitles.

    FRANCE (1963) Dir. Jacques Deray. 115 min. DCP.

    Event Schedule

    12:30 PM                          Doors Open

    1:05 PM                            The Asphalt Jungle

    2:50-3:00 PM                Intermission*

    3:00 PM                            Symphony for a Massacre (Symphonie pour un massacre)

    *times are approximate. 

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    Double Feature Members: $30.00
    Double Features General Admission*: $40.00
    Single Feature Ticket Members: $20.00
    Single Feature Ticket General Admission*: $25.00

    *Please note that all non-member ticket prices include a $5.00 processing fee.

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