In a Lonely Place (1950; Dir.: Nicholas Ray)

Canon Fodder Episode 22

This week, Daniel and Corky are In a Lonely Place, a fine enough place to visit but you wouldn’t want to have an existential crisis there. The jaded and cynical flipside to the lovingly ecstatic portrait of Hollywood mythmaking offered by Singin’ in the Rain, Nicholas Ray’s is a bleak yet sensual film noir that refuses to indulge in any cliched genre trappings. But will your hosts join the coalition of the Lonely in Canon-izing the film, or have they got egg on their Place?

IN A LONELY PLACE FACTS & FIGURES

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #211 (tied)

U.S. premiere: Aug. 1950

IMDB synopsis: “A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.”

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for In a Lonely Place

“Squeeze harder.”

Road rage

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

The Headless Woman (2008; Dir.: Lucrecia Martel)

IMDB synopsis: “After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman’s life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.”

Our review of The Headless Woman comes out on September 24!

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