10.30am – 4.30pm
Mechanics Institute Library, Bradford
Anthony Mann is arguably best remembered as the director of ‘psychological Westerns’ with James Stewart in the 1950s and epics like El Cid in the early 1960s. But his career really took off with a series of films noirs between 1947 and 1950, several in conjunction with the cinematographer John Alton, the man who literally ‘wrote the book’ on film noir photography.
Many of these films were not acclaimed during the ‘re-discovery’ of film noir, a genre defined retrospectively in the early 1970s. But since then work on Mann’s films has seen him hailed as the best American-born director of films noirs (many noirs were made by European migrants in Hollywood). We’ll range across seven crime noirs plus The Black Book (1949, a thriller set during the French Revolution) and The Furies (1950, a Western with Barbara Stanwyck). Our feature screening will be T-Men (1947).
Tea and coffee are available, for a small donation, and you are welcome to bring your own lunch.
Tickets are available on the door but due to limited places, please let us know if you are planning to buy your ticket on the door.