Elliott Screens "Human Desire!"

Elliott Kalan invites you to the next in his series of movies-he-likes-and-you'll-like-'em-too "Closely Watched Films," next Wednesday, July 7th at 8pm. He'll be showing Fritz Lang's vastly underrated film noir of lust, murder, and train travel Human Desire along with a 10-minute edited version of another tale of temptation and punishment, "Dante's Inferno" starring Spencer Tracey.

Plus, he'll be giving away copies of the "Columbia Pictures: Film Noir Classics II" box set, an all-new collection of five great noir films. Can you afford NOT to come to this screening? Obviously, you cannot.

Closely Watched Films: Human Desire
hosted by Elliott Kalan
Wednesday, July 7th, 8pm
92YTribeca
200 Hudson St.
Manhattan
$12



Train conductor and returning Korean War veteran Glenn Ford thinks he can ease back into the comforting monotony of the railroad. He didn't count on a lethal attraction to pouty, trash-glamorous Gloria Grahame and her hulking brute of a husband (Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford) who's already got blood on his jealous hands. Will Glenn give Gloria up to the police? Can Gloria escape her husband's clutches? Will America's rail commuters notice the acid-tinged love triangle playing out beneath their noses?

Regularly overlooked, Fritz Lang's Human Desire is a sharp, painful wonder of film noir, one of the bleakest and most austere films to come out of Hollywood. Lang and screenwriter Alfred Hayes beautifully reduce Emile Zola's La Bete Humaine to its dark heart and transplant it to the ambiguous world of post-war manhood. A must-see for noir-lovers.

PLUS: 1 1/2 Feature! Human Desire will be accompanied by a "Compressed Classic" 10-minute edit of another not-on-DVD wonder.

Director: Fritz Lang. 91 min. 1954. 35mm.

Episode #62 - Legion

If a 13-year-old boy wrote an early-90's Image comic book and pitched it to Zach Snyder's third unit director, then you might wind up with something like Legion. Meanwhile, Dan tries to make it all about his birthday, Elliott expounds on some Flop House in-jokes, and Stuart offers Wolverine a real Sophie's choice.

0:00 - 0:34 - Introduction and theme
0:35 - 40:51 - God has decided to punish us. Not by sending all of the angels from heaven to wipe out humanity - by making us watch Legion. (And punish Dan in particular by making Stu and Elliott interrupt him more than ever before.)
40:52 - 42:14 - Final judgments
42:15 - 57:47 - The Flop House Movie Mailbag threatens to take over the show.
57:48 - 59:21 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.



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Episode #61 - Surrogates

Imagine you were a robot. Now imagine everyone else is a robot. Now imagine Bruce Willis is a robot. Two out of three of those things are pretty hard to imagine, right? Welcome to the world of Surrogates. Meanwhile, Elliott imagines a lost Disney live-action hit, Stuart tells us what his surrogate would look like, and Dan plucks the low-hanging fruit.

0:00 - 0:32 - Introduction and theme
0:33 - 34:34 - Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry, when we take you out in our discussion of Surrogates.
34:35 - 37:20 - Final judgments
38:21 - 45:55 - The Flop House Movie Mailbag.
45:56 - 51:40- The sad bastards recommend.
51:41 - 54:25 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

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