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Genevieve Yue presents: Richard Fleischer’s THE NARROW MARGIN + Abbas Kiarostami’s TICKETS
Tuesday November 24
@2220arts
book signing: 7:30
film: 8:00
On the occasion of the publication of film scholar and critic Genevieve Yue’s new book TRAINS—part of @fordham_press’s Cutaways series, in which writers trace a single device or theme across an idiosyncratic selection of films—we present a short-and-feature pairing curated and introduced by Yue, preceded by a book signing.
Post-screening reception brought to you by @lamaterialnews, with open bar for Ciné-Club and L.A. Material members. Copies of Trains will be available for purchase courtesy of @storiesbooksandcafe.
Special thanks to Adam Piron, Pauline Kraatz, ellie sunlight moon and Alexandra Jade.
THE NARROW MARGIN
directed by Richard Fleischer
1952, 71m, U.S., DCP
In this taut, white-knuckle thriller from master journeyman Richard Fleischer, an LAPD officer (Charles McGraw) is assigned to protect a witness (Marie Windsor) from gangsters on a cramped, fast-moving train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Shot guerilla-style without permits at Union Station, the film was infamously shelved for two years by Howard Hughes (then the head of RKO Pictures) who wanted to remake it with A-list actors; yet the film is an ideal example of a gritty genre movie with raw, hardboiled chemistry between its then-unknown two leads.
“A nearly perfect B picture.” -Jonathan Rosenbaum
TICKETS (excerpt, 2005)
directed by Abbas Kiarostami
2005, 30m, Italy/Austria, digital
Abbas Kiarostami collaborated with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach on the little-seen 2005 anthology film TICKETS, with each filmmaker contributing a short film about European passengers on the same train from Innsbruck to Rome. Kiarostami’s deceptively simple segment follows several conversations between strangers across various social and class divisions, including a man who insists that a stranger is calling on his cell-phone without his permission, and two men who insist on being seated in their reserved seats occupied by other passengers.
Tuesday November 24
@2220arts
book signing: 7:30
film: 8:00
On the occasion of the publication of film scholar and critic Genevieve Yue’s new book TRAINS—part of @fordham_press’s Cutaways series, in which writers trace a single device or theme across an idiosyncratic selection of films—we present a short-and-feature pairing curated and introduced by Yue, preceded by a book signing.
Post-screening reception brought to you by @lamaterialnews, with open bar for Ciné-Club and L.A. Material members. Copies of Trains will be available for purchase courtesy of @storiesbooksandcafe.
Special thanks to Adam Piron, Pauline Kraatz, ellie sunlight moon and Alexandra Jade.
THE NARROW MARGIN
directed by Richard Fleischer
1952, 71m, U.S., DCP
In this taut, white-knuckle thriller from master journeyman Richard Fleischer, an LAPD officer (Charles McGraw) is assigned to protect a witness (Marie Windsor) from gangsters on a cramped, fast-moving train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Shot guerilla-style without permits at Union Station, the film was infamously shelved for two years by Howard Hughes (then the head of RKO Pictures) who wanted to remake it with A-list actors; yet the film is an ideal example of a gritty genre movie with raw, hardboiled chemistry between its then-unknown two leads.
“A nearly perfect B picture.” -Jonathan Rosenbaum
TICKETS (excerpt, 2005)
directed by Abbas Kiarostami
2005, 30m, Italy/Austria, digital
Abbas Kiarostami collaborated with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach on the little-seen 2005 anthology film TICKETS, with each filmmaker contributing a short film about European passengers on the same train from Innsbruck to Rome. Kiarostami’s deceptively simple segment follows several conversations between strangers across various social and class divisions, including a man who insists that a stranger is calling on his cell-phone without his permission, and two men who insist on being seated in their reserved seats occupied by other passengers.
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