Heist Night
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
$12 Special Event Tickets
The Harvard Film Archive's annual all-night movie marathon celebrates the heist film with an international line-up of suspenseful classics of the genre, ranging from Jean-Pierre Melville’s sang froid robbery adventure, Le cercle rouge to Jules Dassin’s caper romp Topkapi. Including hard-boiled gems from Phil Karlson, John Woo and Sydney Lumet, as well as Mario Monicelli’s beloved comedy, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Heist Night travels around the world in six exciting variations of unlikely crime and likely punishment, following a daring trail of safe-crackers, jewel thieves and bank robbers from Kansas City to Hong Kong.
PROGRAM
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Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti)
Directed by Mario Monicelli.
With Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori.
Italy, 1958, 35mm, black & white, 106 min.
Italian with English subtitles.
Print source: Cinecitta
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Le cercle rouge
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
With Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte.
France, 1970, 35mm, color, 140 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: Rialto Pictures
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Topkapi
Directed by Jules Dassin.
With Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell.
US, 1964, 35mm, black & white, 119 min.
Print source: Park CircusOnce a Thief (Zong heng si hai)
Directed by John Woo.
With Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun Fat, Cherie Chung.
Hong Kong, 1991, 35mm, color, 108 min.
Cantonese with English subtitles.
Print source: New Beverly CinemaKansas City Confidential
Directed by Phil Karlson.
With John Payne, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef.
US, 1952, 35mm, black & white, 98 min.
Print source: Park Circus
The Anderson Tapes
Directed by Sidney Lumet.
With Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam.
US, 1971, 35mm, color, 99 min.
Print source: Swank Films
