event Beat The Devil
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Tue Feb 28
7 pm
None Beat The Devil at Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema
Film’s trip down the self-reflexive rabbit hole has turned up some legitimate wonders (Breathless, Airplane!, the Muppet movies) and a whole lot of duds (looking at you, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer). Thankfully, the film that kicked off this march toward the meta, 1953’s Beat The Devil, is more the former than the latter. An extended riff on John Huston’s work in film noir, Beat The Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as a hard-boiled, Humphrey Bogart type who is embroiled in underhanded, John Huston-esque doings overseas. Written on the fly by Huston and Truman Capote, the “first cult movie” shares a loose sensibility with the films of mumblecore pioneers.
Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema Ida Noyes Hall - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Film’s trip down the self-reflexive rabbit hole has turned up some legitimate wonders (Breathless, Airplane!, the Muppet movies) and a whole lot of duds (looking at you, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer). Thankfully, the film that kicked off this march toward the meta, 1953’s Beat The Devil, is more the former than the latter. An extended riff on John Huston’s work in film noir, Beat The Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as a hard-boiled, Humphrey Bogart type who is embroiled in underhanded, John Huston-esque doings overseas. Written on the fly by Huston and Truman Capote, the “first cult movie” shares a loose sensibility with the films of mumblecore pioneers.
Updated 02/16/2012
