CAC’s fall film series begins on Thursday

Special to the LVN

The Churchill Arts Council’s Fall Film Series will present three classic noir films at the Barkley Theatre in the Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon.

“Double Indemnity,” starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck will be shown on Thursday; “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” starring John Garfield and Lana Turner, will screen on Oct. 2; and the series will conclude on Oct. 10 with “Touch of Evil,” starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles.

All screenings will begin at 7 p.m., and there will be a no-host Art Bar from 6 p.m. to 7:00 p.m..

“Double Indemnity” (1944) is set in Los Angeles and was directed by Billy Wilder who also wrote the screenplay adaptation — with Raymond Chandler — from a novel of the same name by James M. Cain.

An insurance salesman meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, they have an affair and she proposes that they kill her husband for his insurance money. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Writing — Screenplay. It received an Oscar for Best Music for its score by Mikos Rozsa.

Tickets for each film are $7 for CAC members, $10 for nonmembers and will be available at the Art Bar on the night of each screening. Special passes for all three films — $18 for members, $27 for nonmembers — are available and must be purchased @ the Art Bar on Thursday.

For more information, please call (775) 423-1440

CAC programs and activities are funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Nevada Arts Council; the City of Fallon; the Nevada Commission on Tourism; Systems Consultants; US Bancorp Foundation; the Fallon Convention & Tourism Authority; Churchill County; Holiday Inn Express, and Mackedon, McCormick & King.

Additional support for this classic noir series has been provided by the Churchill County Public Library & the Fallon Community Literacy Association as part of the Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum & Library Services & Arts Midwest.