Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 pm - The Night of the Hunter
Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 pm - Sunset Boulevard
Tuesday, November 26, 7:00 pm - Nightmare Alley

Noirvember returns to the Lincoln screen for its third year! With two films in classic 35mm format and a third as a 4k remastered projection, it's once again a killer lineup!

November 12: The Night of the Hunter

The great Robert Mitchum stars in this "rural noir" as one of the greatest villains in film history -- the Rev. Harry Powell, a religious fanatic and serial killer. Serving time in prison for car theft, he meets a condemned murderer who confesses to hiding $10,000 in stolen cash. Released from jail, Powell is obsessed with finding the money, and he tracks down Harper's widow, Willa (Shelley Winters), and her two children -- and charms, cajoles, and threatens his way closer and closer to the loot.

"It's unlike anything else before and since. And that is why this strident psychological horror stands up now as one of the great pieces of American genre cinema." —Weny Ide, Times UK

"It's the most haunted and dreamlike of all American films, a gothic backwoods ramble with the Devil at its heels." —Tom Huddleston, Time Out

PRESENTED IN 35MM FORMAT

Directed by Charles Laughton

Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

November 19: Sunset Boulevard

One of the biggest stars of the silent era, Gloria Swanson, returns to the screen to portray Norma Desmond -- a star of the silent era looking to make a triumphant comeback! When screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) ends up staying at her mansion by chance, she draws him into her plan and into her life -- even as Gilles increasingly bristles under her suffocating prescence.

"Billy Wilder’s chillingly cold-blooded satire of Hollywood is one of his finest films — and indeed arguably one of the greatest movies of the period." —Weny Ide, Times UK

"It is Hollywood craftsmanship at its smartest and at just about its best, and it is hard to find better craftsmanship than that, at this time, in any art or country." —James Agee, Sight & Sound

PRESENTED IN 4K REMASTERED PROJECTION

Directed by Billy Wilder

Starring Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim

November 26: Nightmare Alley

Matinee idol Tyrone Power stars (in what he called his favorite role) as the amoral Stanton Carlisle, a mind-reader with a traveling carnival whose ambitious schemes take him higher than he would have ever dreamed -- but with great heights comes the risk of a greater fall. Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker portray the women that he uses and discards as he works his way to the top -- never considering that at some point he might just meet his match.

"Emerges on the screen as a study in realistic horror which might just as well be recorded now as one of the finest pictures of the year. Gripping, exciting and suspenseful, it is a grim, relentless account of a man's degeneration." —THR Staff, Hollywood Reporter

"A dark, rough and grubby -- but enjoyable nonetheless -- slice of doomsaying from the ascendent years of film noir." —James Agee, Time Magazine

PRESENTED IN 35MM FORMAT

Directed by Edmund Goulding

Starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker

Noirvember is generously sponsored by Ron & Holly Guttu and Jere LaFollette and Wende Sanderson.

Film Prices

Lincoln Theatre Members get $2.00 off on the following prices with discount code:

General: $11.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $10.00
Children 12 and under: $8.50

All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs.