Come celebrate the new year with us in Film Noir style!
Feature: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Bob Hoskins & Christopher Lloyd. 104 mins. Rated PG.
Genre/ Tagline: Murder Mystery /Drama. “It’s the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble.”
Synopsis: A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit’s only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder (imdb.com).
Trivia/Awards: Won 3 Oscars. To create the animation, over 85,000 hand-inked and painted cels were created and composited with the live-action backdrops, live-action characters, and hand-animated tone mattes (shading) and cast shadows using optical film printers. NO computer animation was used in creating the animations. Some scenes involved up to 100 individual film elements. Any live-action that had to be later composited was shot in VistaVision to take advantage of the double-area frame of the horizontal 35mm format. The finished film thus does not suffer from the increased grain that plagued previous live-action/animation combos such as Mary Poppins. (imdb.com)
Theme: Don’t miss our Film Noir screening! Come dressed up in your most impressive detective ensemble. Trench coats are a film noir staple and convey mysterious and intriguing swagger – very important when solving cases!
Time: Please arrive at least 20 mins before 8pm to get your tickets and enjoy some refreshments! Films start promptly at 8pm.
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