Thursday, May 10 at 9PM: The Big Sleep USA 1946 d. Howard Hawks with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers and Dorothy Malone. Black and white. 116 m
“…that crime film with the virtually indecipherable plot, though it doesn’t really matter because the scenes, one after the other,
are so utterly compelling and enjoyable that after a while you shrug and think, Who cares what’s going on, it’s all too much fun to worry about details like that…Tense and fast-paced, the picture has a pervasive intelligence and honesty that simply doesn’t date. One of my personal favorites for over half a century, The Big Sleep holds up well under repeated viewings because the black humor and generally evil atmosphere feel continually contemporary.” [Peter Bogdanovich]
See Also: To Have and Have Not (Hawks, 1944), The Blue Dahlia (Marshall 1946), Blade Runner (Scott 1982)