The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 @ 7:00 PM
Globe Cinema - 617 8 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB
$5 General Admission

Globe Cinema and the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners are pleased to present Film Noir Series 2018, a 5-part series of Film Noir classics. Each film will be introduced by Prof. George Melnyk, followed by a Q&A.

The Film Noir series runs every second Tuesday at 7pm starting January 9th. See below for the full series schedule.

All tickets only $5 at the door
Licensed with bar

Synopsis:
A seaman becomes involved in a complex murder plot when he is hired to work on a yacht. He soon finds himself implicated in the murder, despite his innocence. The film is best remembered for it's climax "hall of mirrors" scene with a shoot out amidst shards of shattering glass.

Film Noir Classic Film Series

This is a 5-part series of Film Noir classics from the 1940s and 1950s.

This is an opportunity to view some famous films, including Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon and The Lady from Shanghai. Film Noir is an American genre that encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private investigator (The Big Sleep), a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat), an aging boxer (The Set-Up), a hapless grifter (Night and the City), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy), or simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A.). Beginning in the early 1940s, numerous screenplays inspired by hardboiled American crime fiction were brought to the screen, primarily by European émigré directors who shared a certain storytelling sensibility: highly stylized, overtly theatrical, with imagery often drawn from an earlier era of German “expressionist” cinema. Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, and Otto Preminger, among others, were among this Hollywood vanguard.

There will be a 5 minute introduction to each film plus a 15 minute audience Q&A after each film.

The Film Noir series runs every second Tuesday at 7pm starting January 9th. See below for the full series schedule.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018:  Maltese Falcon (1941)
Tuesday, January 23, 2018: Double Indemnity (1944)
Tuesday, February 06, 2018: Phantom Lady (1944)
Tuesday, February 20, 2018: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Tuesday, March 06, 2018: The Big Heat (1953)

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