CFS Film Screening: The Naked City

Join Canterbury Film Society for our screening of New York City classic, The Naked City (Jules Dassin • 1948 • 96 mins • USA • PG).

Shot on location, often undercover, Jules Dassin’s breathtakingly vivid noir in which the police investigates the murder of a young model captures the promise and the perils of the Big Apple. “‘There are eight million stories in the Naked City,’ as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film – and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger’s dazzling police procedural, The Naked City, was shot on location in New York. As influenced by Italian neorealism as by American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism in noir, living and breathing in the promises and perils of the Big Apple, from its lowest depths to its highest skyscrapers.” — Criterion

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - but new members are warmly welcome. Go to www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40, as well as Half Year and Full Membership). Join and pay online, or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before the film.

The Canterbury Film Society offers weekly screenings of top-quality films – arthouse, classic, cult, documentary, world cinema and more – on the big screen. We screen on Monday night at 7.30pm, doors open 7.00pm with drinks and home-baked food for purchase.

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