Black Tuesday
Hugo Fregonese, 1954, 80 min

Introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht

“This ferocious film noir, independently produced by Leonard and Robert Goldstein, proved to be Hugo Fregonese’s last Hollywood film, as well as the last time Edward G. Robinson played a toweringly malevolent figure. As Vincent ‘King’ Canelli, Robinson draws on the audience memories of Little Caesar and countless other gangster films, yet the evil he embodies is something new, born of the industrial-scale violence of WW2 (…) Cinematographer Stanley Cortez, shooting the first feature film on Kodak’s revolutionary high-speed black-and-white Tri-X stock, contributes images that rival the spatial complexity and prickly detail of his work on The Magnificent Ambersons, while looking forward to the strong, nearly abstract use of negative space that characterizes his contributions to The Night of the Hunter.” – Dave Kehr

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Never on Sunday is a series of screenings of rare classics, archive masterpieces, obscure delights and forgotten gems carefully curated and introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht and taking place the last Sunday of each month at Close-Up.