The Big Heat
The Cinémathèque québécoise partners with Film Noir au Canal to present one of the genre's great classics, Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep. Adapted from Raymond Chandler's bestseller featuring detective Philip Marlowe, the film was co-scripted by none other than William Faulkner, and marks the second on-screen appearance of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart together, solidifying their status as an iconic couple.
En présence de Serge Turgeon : Fondateur et directeur artistique de Film Noir au Canal et Will Straw : Professeur en communications au Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études en communication de l'Université McGill, grand expert de films policiers et membre du conseil d’administration de Film Noir au Canal.
A criminal wants to kill a policeman investigating his activities, but shoots the policeman's wife. The man leaves the force to seek revenge, and receives help from the mistress of one of the gangsters.
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang was an Austro-Hungarian director who became a German national through marriage in 1919 and was naturalized as an American citizen in 1935. As the inventor of many innovative techniques that became industry standards and earned him the title of "Master of Darkness," he introduced an expressionist aesthetic to cinema as early as 1919, which set a trend and particularly inspired film noir. His work is characterized by recurring themes: revenge, the death drive that undermines both the individual and society, the manipulation of crowds by a superhuman figure, the struggle for power, man's violence against man, and freedom for evil. The theme of the double, an image of uncanny strangeness, is present in almost all of his films. Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a film noir precursor. His 1929 film Woman in the Moon showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered the concept of a rocket launch pad and the rocket-launch countdown clock. The restored and reconstructed version of Metropolis has been classified in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 2001.
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