For the fourth year in a row, Music Box and the Film Noir Foundation present a week of little-seen noir relics. Noir City: Chicago favors titles that aren’t available on DVD, but there are always a few old favorites as well.
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Friday’s opening-night program pays tribute to Peter Lorre, whose chilling performance as the serial killer in Fritz Lang’s M set him up for a long career as a tormented soul in Hollywood movies. Screening are Jean Negulesco’s Three Strangers (7:30 PM), in a print newly restored by the foundation, and Robert Florey’s The Face Behind the Mask (9:30 PM).
The festival closes next Thursday with two of the more explosive crime films of the era: Kiss Me Deadly (5:30 and 10 PM), adapted by Robert Aldrich from a Mickey Spillane novel, and Raoul Walsh’s White Heat (7:45 PM), with James Cagney in his last great gangster role. For a complete schedule click here.
Fri-Thu 8/17-8/23, Music Box. Tickets are $10, $12 for two features; a festival pass, good for all programs, is $50.
