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Member Appreciation Movie Night: IN A LONELY PLACE

Watch Trailer Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame

Join us for a one night only screening of the the Nicolas Ray classic noir, IN A LONELY PLACE. Free to Athena Cinema Members as part of the launch of our redesigned Athena Cinema Membership Program!

 

About the film

When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbor (Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. The emotionally charged In a Lonely Place, freely adapted from a Dorothy B. Hughes thriller, is a brilliant, turbulent mix of suspenseful noir and devastating melodrama, fueled by powerhouse performances. An uncompromising tale of two people desperate to love yet struggling with their demons and each other, this is one of the greatest films of the 1950s, and a benchmark in the career of the classic Hollywood auteur Nicholas Ray.

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Running Time: 91 min91 MIN
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

ONE OF THE DARKEST, HARSHEST, AND MOST DEVASTATING LOVE STORIES EVER MADE... The clash of movie-world scandal with local politics gives the passionate affair a broad backdrop, as does Ray’s fervent depiction of fragile, high-strung artists caught between love and work. Ray—who was married to Grahame at the time—endows the couple’s intimate moments with a bittersweet ardor (which gives rise to a love scene in which Dixon describes how he writes love scenes). The stars are joined by a superb batch of character actors, in such roles as a sentimental agent and a Falstaffian thespian, in sequences that play like bruising chamber music, with two-person face-offs, triangular confrontations, and jousting quartets. Few movies suggest such a forthright flaying of the director’s soul.

Richard Brody
The New Yorker