Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Lang, 1956): ICA Cinema, 4pm
This great, late Fritz Lang film is part of the Jacques Rivette season at the ICA Cinema. You can find the details here.
"What, then, is this film really? Fable,
parable, equation, blueprint? None of these things, but simply the
description of an experiment." – Jacques Rivette
The subject of one of Rivette's most famous and decidedly inscrutable essays for Cahiers du cinéma, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is at its heart, as Rivette elucidates, a treatise on the very concepts of innocence and guilt.
The subject of one of Rivette's most famous and decidedly inscrutable essays for Cahiers du cinéma, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is at its heart, as Rivette elucidates, a treatise on the very concepts of innocence and guilt.
Chicago Reader review:
Fritz Lang’s last American film, shot in a stripped-down, almost
anonymous style that seems to befit its bitterness and disillusion.
Reporter Dana Andrews has himself framed for the murder of a stripper in
order to expose the incompetence of the police and the fallacy of
capital punishment. But after he’s sentenced, the evidence that will
clear him is lost when his editor is killed in an accident. Once he’s
raised the standard social issues, Lang destroys them all with a
shatteringly nihilistic conclusion. Joan Fontaine is the Lang heroine to
end (literally) all Lang heroines, at least in Hollywood.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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