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Double Feature Special:
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows and I Walked with a Zombie
Thursday, December 13

Double Feature Admission: $11 for Film Society members and students; $15 for the public ~ includes complimentary admission to the 9pm screening of I Walked With A Zombie. Pick-up your complimentary ticket when you redeem your online order or purchase your ticket at the Walter Reade Theater's box office (cash only transactions). Single Screening Admission to I Walked With A Zombie at 9pm : $7 for Film Society members and students; $11 for the public.

Val Lewton After assisting David O. Selznick on Gone With The Wind, producer Val Lewton accepted a job at RKO running his own production unit. His first film there, Cat People, became one of the sleeper hits of 1942 and is today recognized as one of the true classics of the horror genre. Over the next decade, the Lewton unit would create a string of subtle, elegant films, low perhaps in budget but always high in craft and intelligence. Film critic, scholar and Film Society staff member Kent Jones has now made a perceptive, touching tribute to one of American cinema's most innovative producers.

Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows takes us through the whole range of Lewton's work, detailing his close working relationships with directors such as Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise and Mark Robson as well as the evolution of the major themes and motifs found in the films. Of special interest is Jones' discussion of Lewton's non-horror work, such as the early juvenile delinquency drama Youth Runs Wild, a provocative suggestion of the directions Lewton's work might have explored if his career had not been so tragically brief.

A peerless portrait of a major if under-recognized Hollywood moviemaker…” - Robert Koehler, Variety

Kent Jones will be onstage to discuss his film after the screening, and to introduce a screening of what for many is Lewton's masterpiece, Jacques Tourneur's I Walked With A Zombie


Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Kent Jones, USA, 2007; 77m
Thu Dec 13: 6:30pm

I Walked with a Zombie
Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1943; 69m
Thu Dec 13: 9pm




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The Man in the Shadows*
Thu Dec 13: 6:30

I Walked with a Zombie
Thu Dec 13: 9

*Includes admission to I Walked with a Zombie

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