Tuesday, November 4, 7:00 pm - Notorious
Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 pm - Detour
Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 pm - Gilda
Tuesday, November 25, 7:00 pm - The Third Man

Noirvember returns for its fourth year! Join us for a killer lineup of film noir -- a month of smoke, secrets, and fatal choices, where glamour and guilt go hand-in-hand. Everybody thinks they have the perfect plan, but no one's clean and everyone's cornered.

Every film this year is sourced from a new 4k remaster and they look fantastic!

November 4: Notorious

In Alfred Hitchcock's sleek "spy noir," Ingrid Bergman plays a fallen woman asked to redeem herself through espionage: specifically, infiltrating a group of Nazis hiding out in Rio de Janeiro.

As her government contact, Cary Grant’s cool restraint meets Bergman’s vulnerable radiance in a story of poison, passion, and a wine cellar full of secrets.

Notorious sits at the glamorous edge of noir, where shadows are replaced by chandeliers and moral compromise wears a tuxedo. Keep your eye on the key!

"The virtuoso sequences -- the long kiss, the crane shot into the door key -- are justly famous, yet the film's real brilliance is in its subtle and detailed portrayal of infinitely perverse relationships." —Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

"Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious is the most elegant expression of the master's visual style." —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Starring Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Rains

November 11: Detour

The most notorious of the "Poverty Row" B-movie noirs, Detour follows Tom Neal's desperate hitchhiker as he narrates his own downfall from a roadside diner stool, tracing the moment his bad luck and bad choices fuse into fate. Ann Savage’s snarling femme fatale burns through the frame, leaving no earth unscorched.

Made for pennies and shot in just a few days, Detour is a pure distillation of noir fatalism. It's brief, efficient, and a nasty piece of work.

The main feature will be proceeded by a screening of the Looney Tunes classic "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," starring a hard-boiled Daffy Duck.

"One of the most daring and thoroughly perverse works of art ever to come out of Hollywood." —Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

"It lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it." —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

Starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage

November 18: Gilda

When small time con-man Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) takes a job in a Buenos Aires casino, he discovers that his boss's new wife (Rita Hayworth) is a former flame of his. Their love-hate relationship is a dangerous fulcrum no matter which way it tilts.

Gilda is the bridge between film noir and old Hollywood glamour, and Rita's entrance (that hair flip!) remains one of cinema’s immortal moments. Her career-best performance as Gilda is one of the femme fatale touchstones of the genre.

"Gilda is a sultry melodrama, heavily laced with intrigue, in which Rita Hayworth dissipates as much sex-appeal as the screen will bear." —Josephine O'Niell, Daily Telegraph

"Not since the archaic days of Theda Bara and her brazen ilk has sex appeal been set forth in so rampant a fashion on the screen." —Mildred Martin, Philadelphia Enquirer

Directed by Charles Vidor

Starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready

November 25: The Third Man

Noirvember wraps up with this quintessential noir directed by Carol Reed from a screenplay by Graham Greene. Joseph Cotten’s pulp writer arrives in postwar Vienna looking for a friend, but finds only rubble, corruption, and Orson Welles grinning in the shadows. Every tilted angle and zither strum deepens the unease.

A masterpiece of paranoia, The Third Man stretches noir to its global breaking point.

"[Carol] Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene let the story unfold slowly and deliberately, like the cigarette smoke that floats around the characters, and keep us guessing at every step." —Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

"One of the glories of postwar cinema, and quite possibly one of the most sheerly enjoyable movies ever made." —Robert Horton, Film.com

"Of all the movies I have seen, this one most completely embodies the romance of going to the movies." —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Directed by Carol Reed

Starring Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Noirvember is generously sponsored by Ron & Holly Guttu and Jere LaFollette & Wende Sanderson.

Film Prices

Lincoln Theatre Members get $3.00 off on the following prices when buying tickets at-the-door:

General: $12.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $11.00
Children 12 and under: $9.50

All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs.

FILM SERIES: NOIRVEMBER