UW Cinematheque - The Best of Il Cinema Ritrovato
Blues in the Night | USA | 1941 | DCP | 88 min. Director: Anatole Litvak
Event Details
Date
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Elia Kazan
Chasing a dream of pure musical expression, a scrappy band of musicians gets tangled in the smoky allure of a roadhouse run by a fugitive, where illegal gambling and a sultry femme fatale threaten to tear the band apart. Anchored by its Oscar-nominated title track with lyrics by Johnny Mercer (“My momma done tol’ me…”), this crime-infused musical is one of Warner Bros. finest entertainments from the early 1940s.
Chasing a dream of pure musical expression, a scrappy band of musicians gets tangled in the smoky allure of a roadhouse run by a fugitive, where illegal gambling and a sultry femme fatale threaten to tear the band apart. Anchored by its Oscar-nominated title track with lyrics by Johnny Mercer (“My momma done tol’ me…”), this crime-infused musical is one of Warner Bros. finest entertainments from the early 1940s.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email ben.reiser@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, April 12, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.