Tuesday | November 2, 1999 6:30 pm

The Naked City

Screening on Film

Directed by Jules Dassin.
With Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Howard Duff.
US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 96 min.

While this highly influential neorealist thriller, shot on location in New York’s teeming streets, claimed to be giving an impression of city life, its real mission was to tell an ordinary murder tale through an accumulation of detail and humor. The narrator’s last words have become a widely quoted urban cliché: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."

November 2 – December 14, 1999

Film Architectures

October 4–24, 2001

A Dynamic Duo: Jules Dassin and Melina Mercouri

September 14–November 30, 2004

Film Architectures

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100