Force of Evil (Polonsky, 1948): Nickel Cinema, 6pm & 8.30pm
This is a 16mm screening.
Chicago Reader review:
Abraham Polonsky's superior 1949 melodrama about the numbers racket. A poetic, terse, beautifully exact, and highly personal re-creation of the American underworld, with an unpunctuated Joycean screenplay by Polonsky that is perhaps unique in the American cinema. This is film noir at its best. Beautifully acted by John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, and Beatrice Pearson.
Don Druker
Here (and above) you can see Mark Cousins introducing the film on the TV programme Moviedrome.
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