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Film noir meets spaghetti western

March 26, 2025 – 4:00 pm

The premise of Tokyo Drifter (Tokyo Nagaremono, 1966) is simple: a reformed yakuza hitman named Tetsu decides to quit his gang and marry his girlfriend, nightclub singer Chiharu. His boss has other plans. The rest is all bright color, stagy sets, songs, jokes, and a nearly incomprehensible plot. But when the mix is this good, […]

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‘Modernism in Film’ runs on Dec. 6

November 11, 2024 – 8:50 am

Alfred Hitchcock’s playful light comedy North by Northwest, next up in our Modernism in Film series queue, is the perfect tonic to soothe our post-election anxieties. A film set in 1950s paranoia, it stars an urbane and witty Cary Grant as advertising executive Roger Thornhill, who gets mistaken for a spy and is on the […]

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Fear! Suspense! Architecture!

March 17, 2024 – 6:19 pm

For a moment in 2015, Lawrence Modern gamely attempted to examine modern architecture through film—the modernist medium par excellence—with movies curated by KU School of Architecture faculty. Our Modernism in Cinema series only lasted a couple of shows, but it left an afterimage that hasn’t worn off, and we are eager to delve into the […]

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