Film: Murder à la française — VIVEMENT DIMANCHE! [Confidentially Yours] (Truffaut, 1983)
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MYSTERY OF THE DOUBLE CROSS, chapter 13, Face of the Stranger, b&w, silent, 23 minutes. Directed by Louis J. Gasnier and William Parke, 1916. Based on the story The Double Cross: A Mystery and Adventure in Mexico of To-day by Gilson Willets, 1910. Starring Mollie King, Léon Bary, Ralph Stuart.
One of the few silent multi-episode action, adventure and suspense serials to survive with all episodes intact.
VIVEMENT DIMANCHE! [Confidentially Yours], b&w, 110 minutes. Directed by François Truffaut, 1983. Based on the novel The Long Saturday Night by Charles Williams. In French with English subtitles. Starring Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant.
A man is framed for murder and his secretary who is secretly in love with him, tries to unravel the mystery.
Join us for a not-your-usual film. Here at 96th Street Library we try to continue an Art Film Theater tradition. We screen older, lesser known, foreign, avant-garde, feature length and short films usually grouped into a theme. If it's unusual we'll show it.