Cine Salon Spring 2010: Nothing But Time: Murder, My Sweet

Impressions on the Art of the Cinematograph by Bruce Posner
Mondays at 7:00 PM unless noted

“Nothing But Time: Films in New England Library Basements”

Our 2010 spring film series is devoted to encore screenings of some of the most memorable films that I have presented during the past 30 years in New England library basements - the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge), Currier Museum of Art (Manchester), Fiske Free Library (Claremont), Loew Auditorium-Hood Museum of Art, Pavilion Auditorium (Montpelier), Sawyer Free Library (Gloucester), and, of course, the Ciné Salon at the Howe Library. For reasons known only to each building’s planners and architects, such as Le Corbusier and Jose Luis Sert at Harvard, these subterranean refuges seem to be favored setting for “media rooms” that in turn have functioned as our ersatz art cinemas. —Bruce Posner

April 5: Murder, My Sweet

Dick Powell turns in a sizzling performance as private dick Philip Marlowe in this brilliant film noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1940 novel “Farewell My Lovely.” Swinging wildly between gritty crime thriller and sweaty psychotic hallucination, director Edward Dmytryk displays a masterful control of plot and performances including those of Claire Trevor and Mike Mazurki . One of the best for blackmail and murder!

“Murder, My Sweet remains the purest version of Chandler on film.”—DVD Savant

FILM: Murder, My Sweet (1944) 95 mins. Edward Dmytryk

Free and open to the public.

2010 Cine Salon dates: Jan. 25, Feb. 8, Feb. 22, Mar. 8, Mar. 22, Apr. 5, Apr. 19 and May 3
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Date: April 5, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Mayer Room