July Film Club #1

It's July! Summer is in full swing and we're onto our 3rd film in our series. Our first July film in our Noir Series is The Big Sleep.

The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story that begins with blackmail and leads to multiple murders.

The film currently holds a 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert awarded it 4/4 stars, adding it to his list of the Great Movies, said this in his review, "It is one of the great film noirs, a black-and-white symphony that exactly reproduces Chandler’s ability, on the page, to find a tone of voice that keeps its distance, and yet is wry and humorous and cares. Howard Hawks is one of the great American directors of pure movies (“His Girl Friday,” “Bringing Up Baby,” “Red River,” “Rio Bravo”), and a hero of auteur critics because he found his own laconic values in many different kinds of genre material."

We will be meeting Thursday, July 16 @ 5:30 pm

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-K49CUaeto

Hope to see you there!