A screening of classic and contemporary “Desert Noir 3-D” films, Inferno 3-D (1953) and Dark Country 3-D (2009), sponsored by the LA 3-D Club, will take place at the Downtown Independent Theater on Sunday October 28 at 7pm. On hand to introduce the films will be the “Czar of Noir,” Eddie Muller, founder of the Film Noir Foundation, and Thomas Jane, director and star of Dark Country 3-D. Jane will also be doing a book signing at 5pm at the theater for his new graphic novel publication of Dark Country, with art by Thomas Ott.
Inferno is the only 1950s 3-D film produced by 20th Century Fox studio. Presented here for the first time in a brand new digital restoration by film historian Daniel Symmes, Inferno makes striking use of 3-D in telling the tale of a treacherous wife (Rhonda Fleming) who leaves her millionaire husband (Robert Ryan) in the Mojave Desert to die.
Dark Country, released by Sony Pictures/Stage Six in 2009, is a 3-D horror/noir thriller starring Thomas Jane, Lauren German and Ron “Hellboy” Perlman. About Dark Country 3-D, Muller has written that “the movie is a delirious dream of the dark pulpy stuff we loved as kids—and always will.” The evening of this big Desert Noir 3-D double bill will also feature a display of historic 1950s 3-D promotional materials in the lobby of the Downtown Independent Theater and a Q&A between Muller and Jane before the screening of Dark Country 3-D.
$6 for current LA3DClub members*
$12 for non-members
(admission is waived with USC Student ID)
Note: Paid parking is available at many parking lots in the adjacent area and street parking is free on Sundays. The theater is also only
several blocks from the MTA Red Line.
*club members should email 3D@LA3DCLUB.com for the discount code
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