Editor Michael R. Miller will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

Heavily inspired by the writing of Dashiell Hammett, the Coen Brother’s third film is a love letter to film noir, sacrificing none of their trademark absurdity balanced against a sense of real humanity. Featuring an enigmatic performance by lead Gabriel Byrne, and a dynamic supporting cast with Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, and Coen regulars John Turturro and Jon Polito, Miller’s Crossing is an unforgettable, yet often underrated entry into the filmography of two of the greatest American filmmakers to ever live.

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

“‘Drenched in film lore (as always), designed with a sumptuous detail that extends the mood beyond reality into a meta-“movie” reality, it is shot with masterful elegance (by Barry Sonnenfeld) and performed, unusually for the brothers’ work, with as much subtlety as caricature. And it has this script sent from God. A hyper-charged, multi-layered, whirligig of gangster lingo and idiom hatched from the noir pages of Dashiell Hammett by way of Raymond Chandler. This is as much a film about language and communication—with a pastiche phraseology unique and self-contained — as Tommy guns and gambling. The Coens are lovingly deconstructing another genre with a detail and care that constantly reveals new insights on every visit.” ~ Ian Nathan, Empire 

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