Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
773.702.8575
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Detour
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Sunday Oct 26, 2008 (7pm)
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$5
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For all their celebration of seedy down-and-outs and urban grime, many classic film noirs are visually sumptuous (if not downright baroque) affairs. Not so with Detour. Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 no-budget cult fave — shot in less than a week — features shoddy rear projection and barest-bones set design. The shoestring production proves the ideal fit for the tale of a bullshitting drifter (Tom Neal) led further into doom by a scheming hitchhiker (Ann Savage, the most fatalistic of all femmes fatale). Barely an hour long, it's a warts-and-all masterpiece — the film's various "flaws" only add to its odd authenticity.
