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| Friday, August 10 - Thursday October 4 (except Mondays) 8 Weeks |
Special Thanks to James Lardner & Thomas Reppetto, authors of NYPD (see below); Marilee Womack, Linda-Evans Smith, Richard May, Warner Bros.; Michael Schlesinger, Columbia Repertory; John Kirk, Irene Ramos, MGM Distribution; Eric DiBernardo, Paramount Pictures; Anne Goodman, Criterion Pictures; Harvey Applebaum, Steve Feldstein, 20th Century Fox; Jules Dassin; Tom Toth; Kent Jones; Martin Scorsese; Mark McElhatten; Kira Goldsmith; Mike Mashon, Library of Congress; Rob Stone, UCLA Film & Television Archive; Johnny Legend; Larry Cohen; Gary Palmucci, Jessica Rossner, Kino International; Miramax; Artisan Entertainment; Peter Langs, Universal Pictures; Rusty Casselton.
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NYPD: A City and Its Police James Lardner & Thomas Reppetto's history of New York's police department, will be for sale at Film Forum concession stand during the series. $16 tax included. |
| FRI, SAT & SUN, AUGUST 10, 11 &
12 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1951, William Wyler) "It's never a first offense. It's just the first
time they get caught."
24 hours in the life of NYC's "21st" Precinct, with super-righteous
cop Kirk Douglas routinely strong-arming suspects, especially his wife's ex-"doctor"
George Macready. Wyler's mostly single-set direction piles on the claustrophobic
tension. With Eleanor Parker, William Bendix and Lee Grant.
1:00, 4:35, 8:10*
*NYPD
authors Lardner & Reppetto will introduce 8:10 show on Friday, August 10.
(1944, Otto Preminger) Clifton Webb's elitist critic Waldo Lydecker acidly
narrates, as detective Dana Andrews, on the brink of necrophilia, falls in love
with portrait of murdered Manhattan smart-setter Gene Tierney, in the classic
romantic noir. "Ripe with perverse sexual overtones." - Foster
Hirsch.
2:55, 6:30, 10:05
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| TUES & WED, AUGUST 14 & 15 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1960, Richard Wilson) Italian detective Ernest Borgnine wages a one-man war
against "the Black Hand" (precursor to the Mafia) - his heroics include saving
Enrico Caruso from a bomb! - in thriller based on the career of Joe Petrosino,
the only New York cop ever killed on foreign shores in the line of duty.
1:00, 4:40, 8:20
(1951, Robert Parrish) After he lets the docks' crime kingpin Ernie Borgnine get
away, there's nothing for plainclothesman Broderick Crawford to do but go undercover
to nail him again, with Neville Brand's "Gunner" providing additional mayhem.
| THURS, AUGUST 16 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1949, Anthony Mann) Disgruntled postal worker Farley Granger dips into the
till to cover that family budget, but picks on the wrong guy's roll, and soon
it's a three-way chase with both hoods and cops on his tail. Climaxed by car
chase through deserted, Sunday morning canyons of lower Manhattan.
1:20, 4:40, 8:00
(1958, William A. Berke) When the third detective killed in the 87th Precinct
is his partner, Robert Loggia's Steve Carelli begins to question whether the murderer
is the eponymous serialist. From the Ed McBain novel. Plus a "Crime Does Not Pay"
short.
| RETURNING AUGUST 29 TO SEPTEMBER 4, 2003 • ONE WEEK! |
(1974, Joseph Sargent) Wisecracks and bullets fly as Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo
and Martin Balsam hijack a southbound No. 6 train, the ransom-carrying cop car
jackknifes in Astor Place, and TA cop Walter Matthau negotiates via subway squawkbox.
Homaged by Quentin Tarentino, who heisted his color-coded Reservoir
Dogs crooks from it, this is a rare 35mm print. A previous time we played
this (in a 16mm print lent by screenwriter Peter Stone) was 12/22/94, the day
of the notorious IRT fire-bombing.
AN MGM DISTRIBUTION RELEASE
1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45, 9:50
SPECIAL THANKS TO MGM’S JOHN KIRK.
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| TUES, AUGUST 21 DOUBLE FEATURE |
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER (1975, Milton Katselas) The "groovys" go flying in this period-dialogued
cross between Serpico and Watergate, with idealistic
hippie nerd cop trainee Michael Moriarty playing the fall guy as that
corruption scandal broadens, with Saks Fifth Avenue shootout a highlight.
With Yaphet Kotto as a Black cop overly rough on Black perps and Richard
Gere in his debut - as a sleazy pimp! Trailers:
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(1972, Barry Shear) "Somebody f*** with my balls, I'd talk too!"
philosophizes a hood on the run from ambitious Mafioso Tony Francioso. Old-style
cop Anthony Quinn and Buppie detective Yaphet Kotto are also on the trail in
Hollywood's first all-hand-held-shot feature, filmed entirely in Harlem.
1:45, 5:45, 9:45
| WED & THURS, AUGUST 22 & 23 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1936, William Keighley) When Bronx detective Edward
G. Robinson is kicked off the force, the only thing to do is to join the
gang of racketeers led by Barton MacLane and Humphrey Bogart. Based on the real-life
Johnny Broderick, who greeted thugs with a friendly tap on the shoulder with
a newspaper-concealed lead pipe. Plus The Public Pays, a "Crime
Does Not Pay" short.
1:00, 4:25, 7:50
(1939, Josef von Sternberg) Fatherhood and police work make a tough mix for
proud flatfoot Wallace Beery, as son Alan Curtis, far from carrying on the tradition,
plugs a fur stealer, gets jailed on a phony bribery rap, and then...
2:50, 6:15, 9:40
| FRI & SAT, AUGUST 24 & 25 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1953, Fritz Lang) Blowing up rogue cop Glenn Ford's wife proves a tactical
error for the town's kingpin, in Lang's powerhouse crime picture. Hood Lee Marvin,
good-hearted moll Gloria Grahame, and a pot of scalding hot coffee add sizzling
support.
1:00, 4:40, 8:20
(1954, Roy Rowland) Detective Robert Taylor sure enjoys that dirty money from
kingpin George Raft, but even he draws the line when younger brother/ honest
cop Steve Forrest gets bumped off. With Janet Leigh as the widow. Plus Buried
Loot, a "Crime Does Not Pay" short.
2:40, 6:20, 10:00
| SUN, AUGUST 26, 2001 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1948, Jules Dassin) The seminal all-location film noir from the director
of the French noir Rififi (though director
Dassin is actually a native New Yorker). When a young woman's murdered on West
83rd Street, the 10th Precinct's Barry Fitzgerald and Don Taylor track down
leads from Stillman's Gym to the Roxy Theater to the City Morgue to Roosevelt
Hospital, with final showdown on the Williamsburg Bridge.
2:45, 6:15, 9:45
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AN EVENING WITH JULES DASSINThe legendary director will appear in person on Tuesday, October 9, at 8:00 pm, to discuss his stage career (starting with the Yiddish theater of the 1930s), his film career (from servitude at MGM to his own independently-produced films), the Hollywood blacklist, and his wife and muse Melina Mercouri, as well as his continuation of her lifelong dream: to bring the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece. Plus excerpts from many of his classic films including The Naked City, Topkapi, Never on Sunday and Rififi. |
Please note that the print of CRY OF THE CITY is unavailable. It will be replaced by KISS OF DEATH
| TUES & WED, AUGUST 28 & 29 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1965, Joseph Cates) The apex of 60s exploitation pix, with Sal Mineo as a
proto-Travis Bickle: a pornophilic, body-building Times Square (filmed in its
seedy heyday!) habitué fixated on disco dancer Juliet Prowse, while detective
Jan Murray eavesdrops. A smorgasbord of Hollywood taboos, including masturbation,
rape, incest, child abuse, transvestism, lesbianism, you name it.
2:45, 6:15, 9:45
Please note that the print that we received of GOD TOLD ME TO is unplayable. It will be replaced by a new 35mm print of COP HATER, and the short The Luckiest Guy in the World.
(1958, William A. Berke) When the third detective killed in the 87th Precinct
is his partner, Robert Loggia's Steve Carelli begins to question whether the murderer
is the eponymous serialist. From the Ed McBain novel. Plus The
Luckiest Guy in the World, a "Crime Does Not Pay" short.
| THURS, AUGUST 30 THROUGH SUN, SEPTEMBER
2 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1957, Alexander Mackendrick) "Come Here, Sidney, I want to chastise
you."
The rancid underside of the Great White Way, as Tony Curtis's sycophantic publicist
Sidney Falco plays errand boy to Burt Lancaster's Winchell-like columnist J.J.
Hunsecker, while menaced by sadistic cop Emile Meyer. James Wong Howe's glistening,
location-shot b&w cinematography captures late 50s midtown in the minutest
detail, from the marquees of Times Square to a shadowy street below the Queensboro
Bridge.
2:55, 6:40, 10:25
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(1956, Alfred Hitchcock) Returning at dawn to
Jackson Heights, Stork Club bass player Henry Fonda finds himself trapped in
a classical mistaken-identity case. Shot by Hitch in ruthlessly restrained semi-doc
style on the locations of the actual case, with harrowing sequence of Fonda's
booking and arraignment.
1:00, 4:45, 8:30
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| TUES & WED, SEPTEMBER 4 & 5 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1947, Robert Rossen) When a crooked cop and then his girlfriend are found dead,
gamblers Dick Powell and Thomas Gomez are both prime suspects for Inspector Lee
J. Cobb. (1941, Mervyn LeRoy) DA Edward Arnold's daughter Lana Turner falls for "honest
taxi driver"/gambling bigwig Robert Taylor, setting the stage for blackmail,
extortion, and fake and real murders; with Van Heflin in Oscar-winning role
s Taylor's boozing, cynical, a bit too devoted sidekick.
4:00, 7:45
| THURS, SEPTEMBER 6 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1932, Charles Brabin) Walter Huston's tough police chief slugs it out with
gangsters en route to a jaw-dropping finale. Jean Harlow's cop-corrupting mob
mistress won her an MGM contract.
2:55, 6:00, 9:05
(1928, Jack Conway) Tough NYC flatfoot Lon Chaney takes in bubbleheaded flapper
(and Queens native) Anita Page when her life's threatened by a gang boss.
1:25, 4:30, 7:35*
*live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner at 7:35 show
 Poster from The Nostalgia Factory. |
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951, Nicholas Ray) En route to a mountain manhunt, tough NYC cop Robert
Ryan finds romance with blind girl Ida Lupino - sister to his sex killer
prey. Striking opening scene: a woman's loving hand strapping on her husband's...shoulder
holster.
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950, Otto Preminger) Tough cop Dana Andrews, on the trail of kingpin
Gary Merrill, escalates from police brutality to manslaughter. With Gene
Tierney as the victim's widow. Screenplay by Ben Hecht.
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| SUN, SEPTEMBER 9 DOUBLE FEATURE |
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(1987, Ridley Scott) Queens cop wife Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos, Goodfellas)
gets suspicious when hubbie Tom Berenger is stuck nursemaiding filthy rich
murder witness Mimi Rogers - and she should be. With Law and Order's
Jerry Orbach. 1:00, 6:00, 10:00
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(1997, Sidney
Lumet) Hot dog DA Ron Leibman decides fledgling assistant Andy Garcia is
just the guy to prosecute the botched drug bust that put detective dad Ian Holm
in the hospital, but then drug lord mouthpiece Richard Dreyfuss comes up with
a self-defense plea - from crooked cops! With The Soprano's James Gandolfini.
3:55, 7:55
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| FRI & SAT, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1944, Robert Siodmak) "You like jive?" "You bet. I'm a hep kitten."
Ella Raines, with the aid of kindly (for a change) police inspector Thomas Gomez,
desperately roams the sizzling New York streets for a condemned man's only hope
to beat a wife-murder rap - the nameless woman he met in a bar. From Cornell
Woolrich's novel.
3:20, 6:40, 9:55
(1941, H. Bruce Humberstone) In what's often considered the first true film
noir, sports promoter Victor Mature finds "protégée" Carole Landis
dead, then is alternately solaced by victim's sister Betty Grable and menaced
by hulking detective Laird Cregar.
1:45, 5:05, 8:20
| SUN, SEPTEMBER 16 DOUBLE FEATURE |
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MADIGAN(1968, Don Siegel) By-the-book police commissioner Henry Fonda gives
sticky-fingered cop Richard Widmark and partner Harry Guardino just 72
hours to retrieve the hyper, bespectacled killer they let escape. Based
on a book that stirred a young Bostonian, William Bratton, to dream of
one day becoming NYC's police commish. |
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(1968, Gordon Douglas) Detective Frank Sinatra must contend with nympho wife
Lee Remick while tackling a case involving homosexuals, drugs, and corrupt colleagues,
with his intense interrogation of sweaty hustler Tony Musante a highlight.
1:30, 5:25, 9:30
| TUES & WED, SEPTEMBER 18 & 19 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1950, Edward J. Montagne) When a brutally-murdered tattooed woman is found
near the Reservoir (pre-joggers), a homicide rookie trails a serial killer from
Brooklyn to the Bronx. "One of the seediest films ever made." - Carl Macek.
Plus a "Crime Does Not Pay" short directed by Joseph Losey!
TUE 1:10, 4:30, 7:50
WED 1:10, 4:30 - SEE BELOW FOR EVENING SHOW INFORMATION
(1950, Joseph Lerner) Ex-cop Zachary Scott, reduced to house detecting for
Mary Boland's waterfront flophouse, dries out long enough to track down his
kidnapped son in "some of the seamier areas of NYC" (Robert Ottoson). "Plenty
of sleazy atmosphere." - NY Times.
TUE 2:45, 6:05, 9:25
WED 2:45 ONLY - SEE BELOW FOR EVENING SHOW INFORMATION
| WED, SEPTEMBER 19 (separate admission) DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1914, Frank Beal) "How are crooks rounded up?"
After a millionaire wangles a detailed tour of NYC police HQ for his daughter,
he's robbed of a 50G necklace; but deputy commissioner Dougherty is on the case.
"A plot founded on official police records" is the narrative excuse for a rare
documentary look at actual police operations, with commish Dougherty playing
himself. 35mm color-tinted print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive.
7:40* ONLY
*live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner at 7:40 show, PLUS - Special
Added Attraction - see information below
(1920, Lambert Hillyer & William
S. Hart) After serving in WWI, ex-gangster William S. Hart joins the NYPD,
only to find himself up against his old gang. Rare non-Western role for legendary
cowboy star Hart.
6:30***, 9:20
***Live piano accompaniment by Ben Model at the 6:30 show
EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION:Immediately following the 7:40 screening of THE LINE-UP AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS, we will be showing rare views of turn-of-the-20th-century New York from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection. Among the films to be shown are:
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| THURS, SEPTEMBER 20 DOUBLE FEATURE |
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(1932, Raoul Walsh) Cop Spencer Tracy's slanging matches with hash-slinger
Joan Bennett are spiced with a hilarious parody of O'Neill's "Strange Interlude,"
in unsung 30s classic.
1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30
(1933, Raoul Walsh) George Raft (as legendary Brooklyn Bridge jumper Steve
Brodie) and rival fire chief Wallace Beery let Chinatown burn as they vie for
the love of "skoit" Fay Wray, while no ethnic group is spared by bowery boy
Jackie Cooper, in Walsh's rowdy celebration of Gay 90s low life.
2:30, 5:40, 8:50
| FRI & SAT, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22 |
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(1979, Walter Hill) As color-coded gangs gather in thousands in the Bronx,
charismatic leader Cyrus is assassinated and the finger points, mistakenly,
at the Warriors - now it's one long train ride back to Coney. Stylized violence-packed
update of Xenophon's Anabasis, with Mercedes Ruehl briefly recognizable
among the otherwise anonymously spectating cops.
1:15, 3:00, 4:45, 6:30, 8:15, 10:00
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| SUN, SEPTEMBER 23 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1973, Sidney
Lumet) "Who can trust a cop that don't take money?"
Set up for a fall by his partners, Al Pacino as real-life Frank Serpico*
flashes back to his beginnings as a naive, idealistic police recruit from a
bearded, hippie-like undercover detective on a relentless mission against police
corruption. Shooting on 107 different locations around the city, Lumet delivered
his first butt-kicking action picture. Based on the
book by Peter Maas.
2:15, 7:00
Available from Amazon.com: Serpico (the book) by Peter Maas
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(1990, Sidney
Lumet) Outside a Hispanic "Members Only" club, racist Irish cop Nick Nolte
bumps off a drug dealer, then plants a gun; with equally Irish Assistant DA
Timothy Hutton called in to take the pivotal q&a session of the title. One
of the most scathing examinations of the inter-ethnic hatreds and fears of NYC's
unmelting pots.
4:35*, 9:20
*Judge Edwin Torres, author of the novel Q & A, will speak at the 4:35 pm screening
of Q & A.
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| TUES, SEPTEMBER 25 |
(1977, William A. Graham) When his partner is gunned down, Inspector Frank
Sinatra decides it's time to take on the downtown Mob - way downtown. Made for
TV, this was Ol' Blue Eyes' first film after seven years "retirement."
1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20
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| WED, SEPTEMBER 26 DOUBLE FEATURE |
(1997, James Mangold) Sly acts! When a cop witness to a bad shootout gets
stashed in a seemingly all-NYPD enclave in Jersey headed by "connected" Harvey
Keitel, Internal Affairs man Robert DeNiro comes nosing, and even half-deaf,
chunky (he gained 40 lbs) sheriff Sylvester Stallone gets to finally enforce
the law.
4:00, 8:00
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ROMEO IS BLEEDING(1993, Peter Medak) Graft-obsessed, sex-crazed Queens cop Gary Oldman
gets in WAY over his head when he accepts suave kingpin Roy Scheider's
contract on grinning fetishistic psycho über-dame Lena Olin
- "a femme fatale who practically breaks the mold." (Foster
Hirsch).
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| THURS, SEPTEMBER 27 DOUBLE FEATURE |
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(1971, Gordon Parks) "Who's the Black private dick that's a Sex Machine
to all the chicks?"
Richard Roundtree is John Shaft, one cool dude in turtleneck and leather jacket,
bopping down The Deuce to the beat of Isaac Hayes' Oscar-winning theme song,
and handing his cop pal Charles Cioffi the bodies of half the drug dealers on
the East Coast.
2:50, 6:30, 10:10
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COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (1970, Ossie Davis) When masked men steal 87 grand from Rev Calvin Lockhart's
"Back to Africa" fund, a rat is smelled by African-American cops Gravedigger
Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques).
Based on stories by Chester Himes. |
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28 - THURS, OCTOBER 4 (except Monday, October 1) |
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