On Dangerous Ground (Ray, 1951): ICA Cinema, 2pm
This film, one of Nicholas Ray's very finest, is being shown as part of the Nothing But Life: The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes season at the ICA Cinema.Chicago Reader review:
One of the loveliest of Nick Ray’s movies: this 1952 feature begins as a
harsh film noir and gradually shifts to an ethereal romanticism
reminiscent of Frank Borzage. Robert Ryan is the unstable hero, a
thuggish cop sent upstate in search of a murderer; he ends up falling in
love with the killer’s blind sister (Ida Lupino, who took over some of
the direction when Ray fell ill). Ray excels both in the portrayal of
the corrupt urban environment, a swirl of noirish shadows and violent
movements, and in his exalted vision of the snow-covered countryside,
filmed as a blindingly white, painfully silent field for moral
regeneration. With Ward Bond and an excellent score by Bernard Herrmann.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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