The Big Sleep

Saturday, November 9 11:30am

Monday, November 11 7pm

If you have a friend who’s always whispering “Who’s he?” or “Why did that happen?” during movies, leave them home. The plot of Howard Hawks’ classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel approaches quantum physics. But Humphrey Bogart made Philip Marlowe iconic, and the crackling script, featuring work by the great Leigh Brackett, one of the rare women screenwriters of the era, papers over the gaps. -Lee Gardner

1946 Dir. Howard Hawks 1.37:1 B&W 35MM 114 min. 1946 Version.