SESSION: Sunday 24th November at 7pm



The Big Lebowski

(1998, dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, w/ Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi)

When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 4.14.14.14.1(IMDB rating)

Double Indemnity

(1944, dir. Billy Wilder, w/ Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall)

Double Indemnity will start at approximately 9:23pm, and finish at approximately 11:16pm.

In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 55555(Astor rating)