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ASPHALT ON ASPHALT - The Asphalt Jungle

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Created Jun 29 2007 - 9:00pm

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Screened outside in the parking lot behind The Raconteur! The dark urban world of The Asphalt Jungle is one of the essential destinations in film noir. But be warned: despite tough guy Sterling Hayden’s dreams of bucolic escape, there is no way out. John Huston directed this superbly calibrated crime classic, which displays his usual wry appreciation of fringe-dwellers and down-and-outers. The cast includes Sam Jaffee, indelible as the criminal mastermind, and a pre-stardom Marilyn Monroe. Hayden plays the kind of mug he would revisit in Stanley Kurbrick’s The Killing, an informal homage to this film. And the film’s look is definitive: both artful and gritty, it creates a noir landscape that traps its people just as surely as the tar pits traps the dinosaurs. No wonder they call it noir. Thirty folding chairs will be set up in the lot. Feel free to bring you own seat. FREE! With freshly-popped, movie-style popcorn.

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