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Event
Cat People (1942) + I Walked with a Zombie (1943) [double feature]
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 20-22, 2014:
A Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur double feature
CAT PEOPLE
1942, USA, 73 minutes, 35mm, Warner Bros. (originally RKO)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Produced by Val Lewton
Written by DeWitt Bodeen
Starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Thu/Fri: 7:30 pm; Sat: 4:05 & 7:30 pm
"First in the wondrous series of B movies in which Val Lewton elaborated his principle of horrors imagined rather than seen, with a superbly judged performance from Simon."
- Tom Milne, Time Out
"As well as being scary, the film deals intelligently with sex and the psyche."
- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
"Tourneur splendidly visualizes immigrant dislocation and marital anxiety as spiritual states suspended between planes of light and shadow"
- Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
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PLUS, on the same program:
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
1943, USA, 69 minutes, 35mm, Warner Bros. (originally RKO)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Produced by Val Lewton
Written by Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray
Based on Inez Wallace's story
Starring James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
Thu/Fri: 9:05 pm; Sat: 5:40 & 9:05 pm
"It is Tourneur's caressingly evocative direction, superbly backed by Roy Hunt's chiaroscuro images, that makes sheer magic of the film's brooding journey into fear."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out
"It transcends the conventions of the horror genre and remains one of Lewton-Tourneur's most compelling studies in light and darkness."
- Don Druker, Chicago Reader
"The lighting, shadows, exotic setting and music all contribute to the immensely disturbing atmosphere, making this stunning piece of poetic horror a classic of the genre."
- Alan Jones, Radio Times
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This is a double feature:
your ticket admits you to BOTH films!
Screening formats: 35mm
10 minute intermission between the films.
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LocationNew Beverly Cinema (View)
7165 W. Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States
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