Marc Eliot-The Art of Film

On Friday night April 12th of the upcoming film festival at the New Amazing Peoria Riverfront Museum, Brian Helgeland A Norwegian American Academy award-winning writer's film   "LA Confidential" will be screened in full technicolor at the Largest Film Society Screen in the United States, right here in the Midwest. All Norcham Members and one guest will be offered complimentary tickets for that night of the festival or any other night that festival weekend April 11th-14th 2024. If you haven't been to this museum yet, it's a fabulous museum, so take a tour and see a film when you can!

Please RSVP to Eva Loseth evaloseth@gmail.com or 312.768.3952 for more info and links to discounted hotel rates

https://www.peoriariverfrontmuseum.org/giant-screen-theater/marc-eliots-art-of-film-cities-living-in-cinema 

Join New York Times best-selling author, film scholar and historian, and resident film curator Marc Eliot for the Art of Film featuring the greatest films ever released, presented the way they were meant to be seen on the Giant Screen.

This Art of Film cycle, Marc Eliot takes you on location, as he discusses the importance of setting in film, from L.A. to New York. Join us for a virtual pre-film introduction and a full post-film discussion by Marc Eliot at every screening.

LIVE IN-PERSON FESTIVAL

Douglas Sirk's 1959 Imitation of Life 

Sirk unleashed a melodramatic torrent of rage at the corrupt core of American life-the unholy trinity of racism, commercialism, and puritanism.” - New Yorker Thursday, April 11, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Curtis Hanson's 1997 L.A. Confidential

“L.A. Confidential is a movie bull’s-eye: noir with an attitude, a thriller packing punches. It gives up its evil secrets with a smile.” - Chicago TribuneFriday, April 12, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE (Film Only) Dinner and a Movie experience| Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Michael Mann's 1981 Thief

“[Michael Mann] pounds his film into you in a combination of big, clean images; taut, edgy performances and a score which intertwinesboth sound and music. There is no respite from Thief; it is bravura movie making.” - LA TimesSaturday, April 13, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 Sweet Smell of Success 

“With some of the sharpest dialogue ever cut in Hollywood, only on the most superficial level is this a movie aboutgossip and publicity.” - Empire MagazineSunday, April 14, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Antonie Barraud's 2021 Madeline Collins (French Language Film)

“Directed by Antoine Barraud, the film... cleverly fills out the picture through tiny hints and glances, creating suspense through fresh turns of ambiguity in each scene.” - New York TimesSunday, April 14, 2024 | 7 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE