NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR / THE WINDOW

ABOUT THE EVENT:

6:00pm | Cocktail Reception

Special thanks to our official spirits sponsors Hendrick’s Gin and The Balvenie

7:30pm | NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR

9:45pm | Intermission

9:55pm | THE WINDOW

Start times are approximate.

ABOUT THE FILMS: 

NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR, Dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen, 85 Min, Film Noir Foundation, Argentina

Originally released May 23, 1952

In Spanish with English subtitles. 

NOIR CITY and the American Cinematheque are proud to present a new FNF  restoration of this duo of suspense stories from the pen of Cornell Woolrich. The fabulous cinematography of Pablo Tabernero heightens to several masterful sequences of spine-tingling suspense. Critic Horacio Bernades declared, “Rarely as an Argentine film been more purely cinematic than this.”

FORMAT: DCP

Digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding by the Film Noir Foundation

THE WINDOW, Dir. Ted Tetzlaff, 73 Min, Park Circus, USA 

Originally released May 21, 1949

The screen adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is one of  Hollywood’s classic suspense films. Ten-year old Bobby Driscoll is a chronic  fibber — except after he witnesses a murder. Unfortunately, he can’t convince his parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy) to believe him.  Co-starring Ruth Roman and Paul Stewart as the sinister couple upstairs

FORMAT: 35mm

35mm print courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive