In a Lonely Place News

Criminal Mastermind: Esquire magazine has called George Pelecanos "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world." Novelist George Pelecanos knows crime: He's authored 16 detective novels set in the nation's capital and has written and produced for HBO's The Wire .

Tonight the Noir Bar is In A Lonely Place ... join crime fiction author Kelli Stanley as she serves up a glass of bitters with one of Bogie's greatest films.

BAMcinematek presents the Best of NewFest, NYC's LGBT film festival. Screenings include "Mississippi Damned," tomorrow at 2 p.m.; "Pop Star on Ice," tomorrow at 7 p.m.; and "Prodigal Sons," Sunday at 6:50 p.m. 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn; 718-636-5100. FILM FORUM: Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame star in Nicholas Ray's 1950 noir romance "In a ...

New York-based cinephiles, take note: In a Lonely Place , starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, opens Friday at the Film Forum for a nine-day run.

Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart find themselves in a poignant yet complicated love affair in the 1950 film 'In a Lonely Place.' In a Lonely Place by Roger Ebert The courtyard of the Hollywood building occupied by Humphrey Bogart in "In a Lonely Place" is one of the most evocative spaces I've seen in a movie.

I'm sitting here nursing a cold - one that has me expecting to see visions of buzzards with fingerbowls at any moment.

Chat at 11 a.m. with Courtney Hollands on upcoming events in Boston. Chat at noon with Matthew Gilbert and Joanna Weiss on TV.

They called Gloria Grahame, that most enigmatic and evocative of screen presences, a suicide blonde because "she dyed by her own hand." The compulsively watchable, Grahame -- Oscar winner for The Bad and the Beautiful but more widely known as the vamping Violet in It's a Wonderful Life and Ado Annie in Oklahoma! -- is the star du jour Thursday ...

In the spring of 1958, director Nicholas Ray was tumbling a bit commercially. Like fellow Wisconsin native Orson Welles, Ray began with a first picture, the young lovers on the lam film noir They Live by Night , where he had the greatest control of his career and, despite frequent brilliance, it was an almost constant struggle afterward.

In the spring of 1958, director Nicholas Ray was tumbling a bit commercially. Like fellow Wisconsin native Orson Welles, Ray began with a first picture, the young lovers on the lam film noir They Live by Night , where he had the greatest control of his career and, despite frequent brilliance, it was an almost constant struggle afterward.

For the week of Sunday, July 19, through Saturday, July 25. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK: Ryan and Tatum O'Neal star in the 1973 comedy "Paper Moon," part of the park's summer film series "Movies With a View." 1 Main St., at Plymouth St., Brooklyn; 718-802-0603. BRYANT PARK: Hal Ashby's dark comedy "Harold and Maude" airs Monday at sunset.

It is a curious coincidence - but then again, as they say, probably no accident - that Nicholas Ray 's "In a Lonely Place" was released in the same year as Billy Wilder 's "Sunset Boulevard." Both films cast a dark, cynical, knowing eye on life in Hollywood, and both concern screenwriters down on their luck and hoping for a break.

Days of Summer Directed by Marc Webb Runtime: 95 min. In a Lonely Place Directed by Nicholas Ray At Film Forum July 17-23 Runtime: 93 min.

IT'S been 30 years since the death on June 16, 1979, of Nicholas Ray, the hard-living Ameri can filmmaker lionized by the French New Wave.