This event is in the past.It took place on February 21, 2026 at Metrograph.
Joan Bennett plays a California housewife who covers up her daughter's crime, only to fall into an unexpected entanglement with blackmailer James Mason. Max Ophuls' 1949 noir-melodrama explores the illogic of sexual hunger with hypnotic camera work and ironic tension.
Classic noir revival
35mm screening
Intimate repertory theater
Doomed love story
Tips
🎬"one of the director's most perverse stories of doomed love" (Chicago Reader)
🎞️"Watch films you actually haven't seen in the mecca of the world"
🍸grab a mocktail at the commissary bar before the film
The Reckless Moment
Lower East Side
Joan Bennett plays a California housewife who covers up her daughter's crime, only to fall into an unexpected entanglement with blackmailer James Mason. Max Ophuls' 1949 noir-melodrama explores the illogic of sexual hunger with hypnotic camera work and ironic tension.
Classic noir revival
35mm screening
Intimate repertory theater
Doomed love story
Tips
🎬"one of the director's most perverse stories of doomed love" (Chicago Reader)
🎞️"Watch films you actually haven't seen in the mecca of the world"
🍸grab a mocktail at the commissary bar before the film
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