Are you ready for your close up? Celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of the most essential, renowned and devastating of film noirs! A caustic dark comedy about the Hollywood system, iconic and unsurpassed in its self-awareness and eerie grandeur. Featuring an ambient-jazz preshow by Revenant Sea!
WE HEART LA: NOIR SERIES. Before each screening will be a live performance of ambient/folk-jazz music inspired by the film by REVENANT SEA and a raffle to win a $25 gift certificate to Verdigris Antiques! Doors 7pm. Show 7:30. Film 8pm.
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950, 110 mins, Directed by Billy Wilder, nominated for 11 academy awards and winner of three.) Real life silent film star Gloria Swanson plays Norma Desmond, a silent era screen goddess who has become a faded recluse sustaining herself on the glow cast from her past triumphs. Drawn into this deluded spider’s web is a Joe Gillis (William Holden), a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who jumps at the chance to work on Desmond’s comeback script – even if it is a stinker. Caught between trying to placate his diva and free himself from her increasingly suffocating grip, Gillis finds himself in a position that it’s impossible to escape from... One of the most essential, renowned and devastating of film noirs, and a caustic black comedy about the Hollywood system - Billy Wilder’s Tinseltown gothic is steeped in both admiration and disgust for the movie business and the monsters that it attracts and nurtures. An industry inside joke both funny and haunting, often stolen from and quoted but never diminished in its eerie grandeur.
Keep an eye out for self-aware meta-cameos by Buster Keaton, Cecil B de Mille and Erich Stroheim!
Revenant Sea
Revenant Sea is the collaborative ambient/folk-jazz project of Mark Schwaber and Sheri Hupfer, combining haunting melodies and deeply textured arrangements. The project captures introspective, atmospheric soundscapes—mixing intimate folk lyricism with subtle jazz infusions and field recordings. Currently stemming from the Brattleboro//Greenfield area, Revenant Sea draws organically from its creators’ chemistry and shared influences.
Mark Schwaber is a seasoned indie musician, producer, with deep roots in experimental songwriting and collaboration. As a multi-disciplinary artist, Sheri Hupfer works in many mediums; from the instrument of the body, textiles and rusty metal, to arranging objects in her interior design work, sound is always at the foundation. It is the attention to how sound moves in space, how objects placed can bend or alter it. Sheri is most vested in how place informs the music while utilizing voice to translate memory and emotion recognizing that much of the sound is not heard but felt.
Together they form Revenant Sea: a moody, atmospheric musical venture that blends their perspectives into something haunting and deeply emotive.
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