Shadows & Streetlights: A Night of Noir

🕵️‍♂️ Shadows & Streetlights: A Night of Noir
This Saturday, we’re taking a deep dive into the underbelly of cinema — from hardboiled detectives to neon-soaked dreamscapes, from wry comedic spins to magic-tinged mysteries. Whether you like your noir gritty, witty, futuristic, or fantastical, we’ve got you covered.
Neo-Noir Classics

• Blood Simple (1984) – 1h 37m – The Coen brothers’ tense, twisty debut that put them on the map.
• The Long Goodbye (1973) – 1h 52m – Altman’s laid-back, cynical take on Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe.
• Brick (2005) – 1h 50m – High school halls as mean streets in Rian Johnson’s clever, moody debut.
• Drive (2011) – 1h 40m – Stylish, synth-drenched crime romance with a dangerous edge.

Comedy Noir

• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) – 1h 43m – Shane Black’s snappy, meta twist on the private eye genre.
• The Nice Guys (2016) – 1h 56m – Odd-couple detectives bumble through a ’70s L.A. conspiracy.

Tech-Noir

• Strange Days (1995) – 1h 50m – Kathryn Bigelow’s adrenaline-fueled cyberpunk thriller.
• Ghost in the Shell (1995, anime) – 1h 23m – Cybernetic identity crisis meets philosophical sci-fi.

Fantasy Noir

• Cast a Deadly Spell (1991, HBO) – 1h 36m – Lovecraftian horror meets pulp detective in an alternate 1940s.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – 1h 44m – Cartoon chaos and classic noir collide in this groundbreaking blend of animation and live action

Bring your trench coat, your sense of mystery, and maybe a fedora.