Chez Classics at GV with John Anzalone: Criss Cross
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Join John Anzalone and the wonderful Chez Artiste folks for an in-depth exploration of this Film Noir Classic. John will give a brief introduction prior to the screening of the film, followed by a lively lecture/ Q&A!
Tickets available for purchase at the box office and online, free parking on-site.
Considered one of the best of the film noirs to come out of Hollywood in the post-war years, Criss Cross (1949) tells the story of an honest armored-car guard whose involvement with his scheming ex-wife, now married to a sleazy gangster, lands him in the middle of a tangled and disastrous robbery. With a twisting narrative full of double crosses and deceitful characters so typical of the genre, the film is also something of a blueprint for the "heist" or "caper" film, a subgenre of the gangster movie that would become so popular with John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) right up to the present day with Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) and David Mamet's Heist (2001). (Rob Nixon/TCM)