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HIGHWAYS OF DOOM: THE 17TH FILM NOIR FESTIVAL
You’re desperate. Living on the edge has taken its toll, and you’ve snapped. A gun—there’s always a gun. Shots are fired. Sirens wail. Night falls. You’re on the road, you’re on the run, and, deep down, you know there’s nowhere left to go. Fugitives in cars have inspired Hollywood for decades. For the 17th Film Noir Festival, the Heights Theater and Trylon Cinema bring you five of the most thrilling incarnations of this theme, doomed couples and individuals hoping against hope that they can outrun fate.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6 | 7:30 pm
you only live once
1937 | D: FRITZ LANGHENRY FONDA, SYLVIA SIDNEY
ALL SEATS $12.00
ALL SEATS $12.00
Eddie (Henry Fonda) is an ex-con, trying to go straight. But when he is wrongfully framed and sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit, with his faithful wife Joan (Sylvia Sidney), he goes on the lam, and unleashes his pent-up, and justifiable, anger on an unsuspecting public. Fritz Lang’s YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE is a shocking indictment of American hypocrisy, as telling today as it was during the Depression, and was a favorite of James Baldwin.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Shout Factory
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13 | 7:30 pm
DETOUR
1945 | D: EDGAR G. ULMERTOM NEAL, ANNE SAVAGE
ALL SEATS $12.00
ALL SEATS $12.00
Hitchhiking across the country, Al (Tom Neal), hops a ride with a gambler. When the gambler croaks suddenly, Al’s paranoia is unleashed, and he knows he’s going to be the stooge. On the run in the dead guy’s car, he foolishly picks up Vera (Anne Savage), the most fatale of the femmes fatales in noir history. She knows whose car he’s driving, knows she can milk him for a load of money, and as he tries to navigate his way through this mess, Al knows that fate is against him, and the electric chair awaits.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025 | 7:30 PM
GUN CRAZY
1950 | D: JOSEPH H. LEWIS
JOHN DAHL, PEGGY CUMMINS
ALL SEATS $12.00
Bart (John Dahl) loves guns. Annie (Peggy Cummins) loves guns and money. Put them together and watch the violence unfold. From this simple plot, director Joseph H. Lewis concocted one of the most thrilling and emotional noirs, which includes an astonishing heist featuring a nearly 3-minute long take in a real town, by a real bank, among real people who didn’t know a movie was being made. Dall and Cummins are simply electric as the doomed pair, whose greed slowly gives way to a passionate love.
DCP - Warner Bros.
DCP - Warner Bros.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 | 7:30 PM
DUEL
1971 | D: STEVEN SPEILBERG
DENNIS WEAVER
ALL SEATS $12.00
David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is a dull businessman on his way to LA through the Mojave Desert. When he cuts off a rusty semi-truck, it pisses off the driver, who begins a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse on this deserted highway. Steven Spielberg’s made-for-TV movie stunned audiences, so Universal tossed it into theaters, and it has since become a classic.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Universal Pictures
DCP - Universal Pictures
THURSDAY MARCH 6 | 7:30 PM
THELMA & LOUISE
1991 | D: RIDLEY SCOTT
SUSAN SARANDON, GEENA DAVIS, BRAD PITT
ALL SEATS $12.00
Louise (Susan Sarandon) is a level-headed waitress; Thelma (Geena Davis) is a daffy housewife. Together, they head out in Louise’s turquoise ’66 Thunderbird for a girls’ weekend. But when Louise blows away Thelma’s would-be rapist at a honky-tonk, the pair hit the road, leaving the patriarchy in the dust. THELMA & LOUISE was an instant classic and a box-office smash when it was released, an old school Hollywood picture dropped into the 90s, a feminist masterpiece (written by Callie Khouri, who won an Oscar for the script), and one hell of a great ride.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Park Circus.
DCP - Park Circus.