Murder, My Sweet

Screening & Lecture with NYU Cinema Studies Professor Chris Straayer

1944. 95 m. Edward Dmytryk. Warner Bros.. US. English. Rated NR.

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Gumshoe Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to track down his former girlfriend. He’s also hired to accompany an effeminate playboy buying back some jewels. When the exchange results in the playboy’s murder, Marlowe can’t leave the case alone, and soon discovers it’s related to Malloy’s. As he gets drawn deeper into a complex web of intrigue by a mysterious blonde (Claire Trevor), the detective finds his own life in increasing jeopardy.

After the screening, stay for a lecture and discussion featuring Chris Straayer, associate professor in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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"Dmytryk was chomping at the bit to show what he could do with a real budget, name actors, and a band of creative collaborators. Much of the visual flourishes he displays in this film was gleaned from an earlier RKO movie, Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane."
Eddie Muller, Turner Classic Movies

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Screening and Lecture with Chris Straayer, NYU Professor

Sunday, Nov. 17 2024, 11:00

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Chris Straayer is an associate professor in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, where he teaches courses such as film theory, gender and madness, and film noir. He has served as Curator, Program Advisor, and Co-organizer for a variety of programs and exhibits, including the "About Time" series for The Learning Channel, “Lesbian Genders” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Transmutation: International Transgender Festival, and Gender Reel NYU: Transgender Film Festival. Straayer is the author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies (Columbia University Press) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters, including two on film noir: "The Talented Post-structuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing" in Peter Lehman (ed.), Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture and "Femme Fatale or Lesbian Femme: Bound in Sexual Difference" in E. Ann Kaplan (ed.), Women in Film Noir (2nd edition).

This film is part of the Noirvember: Film Noir from Yesterday to Today series.