#FAT CITY

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JEFF • BRIDGES & CANDY • CLARK

📷 by Michael Brennan during filming of Fat City, 1972.

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Kuolleet lehdet / Fallen Leaves Aki Kaurismäki. 2023

Cinema Eteläinen Hesperiankatu 22, 00100 Helsinki, Finland See in map

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BBC2 Moviedrome (1988)

Fat City (1972)

Susan Tyrrell

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Susan Tyrrell in Fat City, 1972

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ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, February 1, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss our NOIR CITY 21 festival, ”Monsieur Spade”, Edith Head and other sartorial subjects, John Garfield, “Fat City”, and more. We wind up with a discussion of which film noir doctor we would go to if ill. Sorry, folks, not cats in this episode.

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Can’t join us on Thursday? No problem! A recording will be up on our YouTube channel, @NoirCity, on Friday, February 2: https://www.youtube.com/user/NoirCitySF

Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

[mrthemovieman]

Who remembers this movie?

[lucdesportes]

En regardant Fat City, hier soir.

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[joemayo65]

In the midst of a phantasmagoria of worn-out, mangled faces, scarred cheeks and necks, twisted, pocked, crushed and bloated noses, missing teeth, brown snags, empty gums, stubble beards, pitcher lips, flop ears, sores, scabs, dribbled tobacco juice, stooped shoulders, split brows, weary, desperate, stupefied eyes under the lights of Centre Street, Tully saw a familiar young man with a broken nose.  

At midnight he negotiated the stairs to his room, it's walls covered with floral paper faded to the hues of old wedding bouquets. Undressing under the dim bulb, he stared at the four complimentary publications on the dresser: An Hour With Your Bible. El Centinela y Heraldo de la Salud. Signs of the Times-The World's Prophetic Monthly. Smoke Signals-A Renowned Anthropologist Marshals the Facts on What Smoking Does to Life Before Birth. ​He wondered if anyone ever read them. Maybe old men did, and wetbacks staying off the street at night. And was this where he was going to grow old? Would it all end in a room like this? He sat down on the bed and before him on the wall was the picture of a wolf standing with vaporized breath on a snow-covered hill above a lighted farm. Then the abeyant melancholy of the evening came over him. He sat with his shoulders slumped under the oppression of the room, under the impasse that was himself, the utter hopeless thwarting that was his blood and bones and flesh. Afraid of a crisis beyond his capacity, he held himself in, his body absolutely still in the passing and fading whine and rumble of a truck.

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[drmicrochp]

The first storms of winter bring life to the grass and turn the harvested fields to mud. Rainbows promise hope. Snug in our homes, listening to the patter of rainfall in Victoria.

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Fat City (1972)

🎬 John Huston

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Top - Director John Huston, Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell and crew behind-the-scenes of Fat City, 1972.

Bottom - Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell in Fat City, 1972.

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