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"Free entry! Bogie launches the first of Ill Repute’s fortnightly basement noir screenings with incomparable 40s style. A surly Chandler-penned private investigator, universal female desire for said investigator, unforeseen layers of intrigue, bodies piling up in mean low-lit Hollywood streets, ever-present Marlboro smoke; The Big Sleep doesn’t break the mold, it is the mold!"
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A event held at The Ill Repute on Sunday 8th February. The event starts at 19:00.
On Sunday 8th February, we’re switching the lights low, pouring something stiff, and slipping into the shadows for the first screening at SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT; our new fortnightly film night.
A Sunday evening rendezvous with the mean streets, the crooked smiles, the cigarette smoke and the kind of trouble you don’t walk away from clean.
We’re kicking things off with a stone-cold noir classic:
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Humphrey Bogart. Lauren Bacall. Murder, blackmail, fast talk and a plot so tangled it barely matters because this is noir at its sharpest, coolest and most dangerously seductive.
Bogart’s Philip Marlowe prowls Los Angeles looking for answers, finding nothing but trouble. Bacall lights up every scene like a match struck in the dark. Everyone’s lying. Everyone’s guilty. And the night just keeps getting longer.
Expect:
+ Classic black-and-white fatalism
+ Hardboiled dialogue and harder drinks
+ Dangerous women, dangerous men
+ A dive bar full of beautiful losers
Something of the Night will run every other Sunday, bringing the best of film noir to the back room-lost souls, moral rot, sharp suits and sharper shadows.
Come early. Stay late. Trust nobody.
• The Ill Repute, 16 West Street, BS2 0DF
• Sunday 8th February
• Film starts: 7pm
The night has a way of swallowing you whole. Might as well enjoy it.
Entry requirements: 18+
A Sunday evening rendezvous with the mean streets, the crooked smiles, the cigarette smoke and the kind of trouble you don’t walk away from clean.
We’re kicking things off with a stone-cold noir classic:
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Humphrey Bogart. Lauren Bacall. Murder, blackmail, fast talk and a plot so tangled it barely matters because this is noir at its sharpest, coolest and most dangerously seductive.
Bogart’s Philip Marlowe prowls Los Angeles looking for answers, finding nothing but trouble. Bacall lights up every scene like a match struck in the dark. Everyone’s lying. Everyone’s guilty. And the night just keeps getting longer.
Expect:
+ Classic black-and-white fatalism
+ Hardboiled dialogue and harder drinks
+ Dangerous women, dangerous men
+ A dive bar full of beautiful losers
Something of the Night will run every other Sunday, bringing the best of film noir to the back room-lost souls, moral rot, sharp suits and sharper shadows.
Come early. Stay late. Trust nobody.
• The Ill Repute, 16 West Street, BS2 0DF
• Sunday 8th February
• Film starts: 7pm
The night has a way of swallowing you whole. Might as well enjoy it.
Entry requirements: 18+