Faculty Film Night: Dana Polan introduces SUDDENLY

Cinema Studies Faculty Film Night:
Suddenly (1954, 76 mins) with Professor Dana Polan

Friday, October 17 at 6:00pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor

Join us for a screening of Suddenly (1954) starring Frank Sinatra and introduced by Cinema Studies faculty member and chair Dana Polan.

Upon its release, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, “…[w]e think that Mr. Sinatra deserves a special chunk of praise for playing the leading gunman with an easy, cold, vicious sort of gleam,” and praised the film’s crew, including, “Richard Sale for a good script, which tells a straight story credibly [and] Mr. Allen for direction that makes both excitement and sense…”

Dana says, “This is Sinatra at his most evil, playing a hot-blooded killer whose evident neuroses have turned him into an atom-bomb of threatened violence in the heart of the Cold War.’”

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.