Mar 21-25 | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir


The Inaugural Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir

Programmed by Rob King, Film and Media Studies

Paris 1946. The war is over and American films are once again in Parisian theaters. The French immediately notice a shift in the sensibility of Hollywood’s crime films. They call it noir.

This festival—the first in a ten-year series exclusively devoted to the legacy of film noir—returns us to that pivotal moment in film history some seven decades ago. For its inaugural year, the Kit Film Noir Festival will present eight of the films that screened in France that season and inspired the label film noir. All films will be shown in 35mm.

Screenings will be accompanied by talks featuring film scholars James Naremore, University of Indiana, and Thomas Elsaesser and Annette Insdorf, Film and Media Studies.

Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 pm
Keynote address by James Naremore, University of Indiana
The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts

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