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Preminger: Laura at Jordan Hall

Courtesy of John Campopiano | Posted on October 30, 2013

Where

Jordan Hall
30 Gainsborough Street
Boston, MA
Map
(617) 585-1260

When

Tue, November 5, 2013
8pm-10pm

At Door

FREE

Musicians

About

Pianist/composer/improviser Ran Blake and coproducer Aaron Hartley bring an extra dimension to Hallowe'en with specimens of that most haunting genre, film noir. Now an annual tradition, this year's concert is based on one of the best-known specimens of the genre: Otto Preminger's 1944 Laura, as well as another Preminger title—Whirlpool.

One of Hollywood's most notorious rebels, Preminger constantly defied censorship by treating such themes as drug addiction and rape. He worked with predominantly black casts, jazz scores, and blacklisted screenwriters at times when all of these went against the unwritten rules of Hollywood....

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