Providence Movie Club

We're back at AS220! I'm so happy to get our screenings there back on the schedule. For September, I'm screening one of my favorites, Double Indemnity from 1944. From Criterion: Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this epitome of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain’s pulp novel.

When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck), he intends to sell insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. Featuring scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson and the chiaroscuro of cinematographer John F. Seitz, Double Indemnity is one of the most entertainingly perverse stories ever told and the standard by which all noir must be measured.

Join us on Wednesday, September 24th for a 7:00pm screening of Double Indemnity at the AS220 Black Box theater. Doors open at 6:45pm, and we'll start the movie around 7:00ish. For anyone interested, we'll go to the AS220 bar afterwards to hang out (or someplace else downtown depending on the mood).

This is a ticketed event, and tickets are $7 each. You can pay with cash or card at the door. AS220 will soon have a preorder link up as well if you want to go down that route. Feel free to drop a comment if you get lost or have any questions. The Black Box theater is located at 95 Empire Street in downtown Providence, to the right of the AS220 bar.

For our last event in September, we're partnering with the West Broadway Neighborhood Association (WBNA) for an outdoor screening in Dexter Park in Providence. Even better, we're screening Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Are you cussing with me? No, it's true!

From Criterion: Fantastic Mr. Fox is the story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family in a new foxhole in a beautiful tree—directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel is a meticulous work of stop-motion animation featuring vibrant performances by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, and Bill Murray.

Join us on Saturday, September 27th for a 7:00pm outdoor screening of Fantastic Mr. Fox in Dexter Park. I think a lot of people come to WBNA events, and judging from the RSVPs from our last outdoor event, people love outdoor movies. Because of that, I'm going to say that we should meet in the park at 6:00pm to hang out and find a spot together. I'll put in the comments where we are the day of.

Some of the event details for this are still up in the air. The movie's set in stone, but we might have food trucks? And I'm pretty sure we'll have popcorn and hot chocolate for sale. They won't have seats, though, so it's up to you to provide your own chair or blanket. It's also a free event.