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26 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

BFI, retail

Night and the City is the stand-out title here, a top-quality example of the genre with the unusual feature that the mean streets through which smalltime hustler Richard Widmark plies his trade are the still-familiar ones of postwar London.

Like his lead character, Jules Dassin, whose direction is exhilarating, was on the run – from the McCarthy witchhunt in Hollywood. He's best-known for Rififi , but this is every bit as good, weaving an elaborate plot around its club owners and gangsters. Widmark, slippery but soulful, rises to the challenge amid an excellent cast and this deserves to be much better known. Backing it up are a trio of Fox films made by Otto Preminger, Fallen Angel, Whirlpool and When the Sidewalk Ends. Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney are prominent in satisfyingly shadowy dramas and the BFI gives it lots of useful back-up material in an attractive package.

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- Rob Mackie

18 February 2009 2:17 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

There's no need to focus all your attention on new releases, particularly not when spring is studded with enough fantastic repertory scheduling to fill your every evening. Here's a look at what's been planned in New York and L.A.

New York:

Anthology Film Archives

Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra returns to the Anthology Film Archives from Feb. 25-March 3 to present his latest film, "Birdsong," an atmospheric retelling of biblical Three Wise Men story with an eye towards the desert landscape they were traveling [pictured left], in addition to Mark Peranson's experimental making-of "Birdsong" doc, "Waiting for Sancho," which will show on Feb. 28 and March 1... On March 4, '60s underground filmmaker Jose Rodriguez Soltero will get a double feature of two newly restored prints of his 1965 exploration of narcissism, "Jerovi," and the 1966 celebration of Mexican Hollywood star Lupe Velez, "Lupe."... From March 5 through 15, one of America's finest character actors gets a retrospective »

- Stephen Saito

2 articles from 2009