After looking over the full Film Forum schedule, my reaction
would be to take a month off and hit 'em all.
The Window was recently restored by the Film Noir Foundation,
so the print should be an immaculate one. It's a slight but
very entertaining film, with a great sense of life in New
York City in the late '40s. It's also a relic from a time in
which your villain could punch a small boy in the face and
knock him out cold. The story behind the movie has a more
noir feeling to it. Young star Bobby Driscoll won a special
Oscar for his performance. Twenty years later, he was found
dead of a drug overdose in a tenement building only blocks
from where he'd filmed his greatest triumph.
What's more, The Window is paired with Deadline At Dawn, one
of the damnedest movies I've ever seen. It's a Cornell
Woolrich adaptation scripted by Clifford Odets and directed
by Harold Clurman, founder of the Group Theater. It's a movie
that really has that Barton Fink feeling, with working class
characters stopping to philosophize at the drop of a hat.
It's terrible, but in a greatly enjoyable way.
Vince Keenan
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