Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Cool Hand Luke
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May 8, 2009 – May 21, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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A few albums back, Jay-Z flowed, "I'm living proof that crime do pay/Say hooray to the bad guy." Behold Film Forum's old-school ode to the bad guy (and gal), which spotlights a criminal lineup: a pair of nonconforming Pauls on the chain gang (Muni in the remarkable, muckraking I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang and Newman in Cool Hand Luke); moll-of-molls Barbara Stanwyck (women-in-prison progenitor Ladies They Talk About); and psycho killer James Cagney, whose qu'est-ce que c'est happens to be Oedipal (White Heat, mischievously scheduled for Mother's Day). There's also Don Siegel's two-for-one jailbird special, Escape from Alcatraz and Riot in Cell Block 11, the latter shot on location at the famed Folsom Prison.
