Tonight @nwfilmcenter: Brighton Rock
I went through a Graham Greene phase back in my teen years and early twenties. I did not know that he also had his hand in film. Tonight, the NW Film Center is showing Brighton Rock as part of its “Best of British Film Noir,” series.
Greene wrote the novel and the screenplay for the film.
Fron the NW Film Center:
The brilliant author Graham Greene provides the source novel and screenplay for this Dickensian glimpse into the underbelly of a typical British seaside resort, where sun, sand, and carnivals camouflage another town entirely. In run-down Brighton, the boardwalk is lined with pasty day-trippers and incompetent singing acts and patrolled by teenage Napoleon ‘Pinkie’ Brown (Richard Attenborough). With a choirboy’s looks and a killer’s cold stare, as alien to his fellow gangsters as he is to ‘civilians,’ Attenborough embodies a psychosis matched only by James Cagney in WHITE HEAT.”—Pacific Film Archive. “One of the finest British thrillers ever.”—Time Out, London.
The film starts at 7 pm tonight at the Whitsell in the Portland Art Museum.
We’re heading out for sushi and then to the film. Kind of a perfect date night.
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