{"id":318,"date":"2026-06-11T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:06:25","slug":"film-noir-david-lynchs-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Film noir &#038; David Lynch\u2019s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>If someone asked you to picture a film noir, you\u2019d probably conjure a handful of visual signifiers: a sultry femme fatale, a hard-drinking gumshoe in a fedora, shadows darker than the human soul. But what would it sound like? Chances are you can already hear a low, bluesy saxophone, possibly accompanied by lightly brushed drums and a slinky vibraphone. It is this intersection of film noir and jazz that lies at the heart of this year\u2019s <strong>Noir City Boston<\/strong>, the <strong>Brattle Theatre<\/strong>\u2019s annual collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation. From Friday through Monday, the Brattle screens nearly a dozen features that marry the coolest of cinematic and musical genres, almost all introduced by author and FNF director Foster Hirsch.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=316\">Charges dropped in fatal stabbing case<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of these titles will likely be familiar, such as the double feature of <strong>\u201cGilda\u201d<\/strong> (1946) and <strong>\u201cTo Have and Have Not\u201d<\/strong> (1945) on Saturday, which respectively star Rita Hayworth and Lauren Bacall as morally dubious chanteuses. Some of the series\u2019s most intriguing selections, however, might fly under the radar. Anatole Litvak\u2019s <strong>\u201cBlues in the Night\u201d <\/strong>(1941), which opens the series Friday in a double feature with <strong>\u201cBlack Angel\u201d<\/strong> (1946), is widely considered the inaugural jazz noir, a mile-a-minute thriller about a jazz combo (whose members include a pre-fame Elia Kazan!) and their descent into depravity. Equally remarkable is Basil Dearden\u2019s <strong>\u201cAll Night Long\u201d<\/strong> (1962), a sort of swingin\u2019 60s update of \u201cOthello,\u201d starring Patrick McGoohan as a scheming jazz drummer Iago, as well as a constantly jamming band of rotating musicians, including jazz legends Charles Mingus and Dave Brubeck; it screens Saturday in a double feature with the Duke Ellington-scored <strong>\u201cAnatomy of a Murder\u201d<\/strong> (1959). It all leads to Monday\u2019s finale of the great <strong>\u201cSweet Smell of Success\u201d<\/strong> (1957), starring Tony Curtis as unscrupulous publicist Sidney Falco and a terrifying Burt Lancaster as ruthless gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker. For the complete series lineup and ticket information, check out the Brattle\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the <strong>Somerville Theatre<\/strong>\u2018s ongoing tribute to Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster continues with a double feature of two of the actors\u2019 most celebrated \u2014 and chilling \u2014 works. Foster won her second Oscar for her role as Clarice Starling in Jonathan Demme\u2019s horror classic <strong>\u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d<\/strong> (1991), a hero strong enough to hold her own against one of cinema\u2019s all-time great villains, Anthony Hopkins\u2019 Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Remarkably for such a roundly perverse film filled with cannibalism and brutality, \u201cSilence\u201d was a cultural phenomenon. The same could not be said for John Carpenter\u2019s <strong>\u201cThe Thing\u201d<\/strong> (1982), which was shrugged off upon its release but is now revered as one of the genre\u2019s finest moments. Russell plays the rugged helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady, who must outwit the malevolent, shape-shifting alien entity inhabiting the researchers in a remote Antarctic outpost. Both films have retained their full power to shock in the decades since their release, and they remain two of Russell and Foster\u2019s finest hours.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, the Somerville\u2019s weekly <strong>Midnight Specials<\/strong> series celebrates the 40th anniversary of one of the most explosive and influential arthouse hits of the 80s. In David Lynch\u2019s <strong>\u201cBlue Velvet\u201d<\/strong> (1986), Kyle MacLachlan plays a clean-cut, all-American college kid who gets in way, <em>way<\/em> over his head after discovering a severed ear lying in a field in his hometown. His Hardy Boys attempt to solve the murder gets him entangled with town sociopath Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and sadomasochistic lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini). This was Lynch\u2019s fourth film (following \u201cEraserhead,\u201d \u201cThe Elephant Man,\u201d and \u201cDune\u201d), but it\u2019s the one that cemented the distinctly Lynchian vision of small-town America, which would eventually bring him to \u201cTwin Peaks.\u201d It also marks his first work with several key collaborators, including actress Laura Dern, composer Angelo Badalamenti, and singer Julee Cruise. If you\u2019re looking for a gateway to the wild world of Lynch, you could do worse than through that infamous ear canal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=314\">City reverses course on Ahern Field<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, organist <strong>Jeff Rapsis<\/strong> returns to the Somerville with another improvised live score to a silent cinema classic. This time around, the subject is Lotte Reininger\u2019s <strong>\u201cThe Adventures of Prince Achmed\u201d<\/strong> (1926), one of the most fascinating and oft-overlooked films of the era. Contrary to the Disney party line, \u201cAchmed\u201d is the earliest known surviving animated feature film. Inspired by the German tradition of silhouette artwork and the Chinese art of shadow puppetry, Reininger used paper cutouts pressed under a thin sheet of lead to create eye-popping monochrome images, which she then hand-tinted with various colors. The film, a loose fantasia on elements from the \u201cOne Thousand and One Nights,\u201d is like very little else made before or since. Seeing it in a crowd of moviegoers in the Somerville\u2019s ornate main house, accompanied by one of Rapsis\u2019s signature improvised scores, sounds nothing short of magical.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Somerville Theatre\u2019s <strong>Thirsty Thursdays<\/strong> series returns with one of the toughest watering holes ever committed to screen. Robert Rodriguez\u2019s <strong>\u201cFrom Dusk Till Dawn\u201d<\/strong> (1996) follows bank robber brothers Seth and Richie Gecko (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, the latter of whom wrote the screenplay) as they flee the authorities across the border. On instruction from their Mexican contact (Cheech Marin, in one of three roles), the Gecko brothers hole up in a seedy biker bar called the Titty Twister. And then \u2026 on the off chance that you haven\u2019t seen it, I won\u2019t spoil the plot twist that occurs at the film\u2019s halfway point, but suffice to say the FBI quickly becomes the least of the brothers\u2019 problems. What I will say is that the atmosphere inside the bar is one of the most dizzying works of pulp fiction in either Tarantino\u2019s or Rodriguez\u2019s filmographies, with scene-stealing performances from Danny Trejo and Salma Hayek and a killer soundtrack from Chicano psychobilly band Tito &amp; Tarantula. It\u2019s one of the giddiest genre films of the 90s, and the equivalent of a truly wild night out on the town.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=312\">The CPL\u2019s top 10 May reads<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone asked you to picture a film noir, you\u2019d probably conjure a handful of visual signifiers: a sultry femme fatale, a hard-drinking gumshoe in a fedora, shadows darker than the human soul. But what would it sound like? 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