Tonight (Thursday) at 7:00 p.m., C-U’s other film festival, the film noir series, sponsored by C-U libraries and The Big Read project, culminates with a screening of the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon. It’s free, it’s on the big screen, and it should be fun.
Check out the original pre-censorship code version from 1931:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1931_film)
Or the comic version released in 1936, starring Bette Davis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan_met_a_lady
Or Wild Boys on the Road and other pre-code Hollywood shockers (featuring the Depression, prostitution, drug use, anything goes) in the Forbidden Hollywood DVD series, available from Netflix or the Champaign Public Library.
With a little bit of sleuthing around the libraries, the film festival never has to end…