They Live by Night (1948) Directed by Nicholas Ray Sunday - January 27 - 3:00 p.m. Dreamlike, haunting, and deliriously stylish, Ray’s debut feature stars Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell as a young outlaw couple on the road, desperately attempting to flee from the police and from their own criminal pasts. The film introduced the type of existential anti-heroes that would preoccupy Ray throughout his career, rebel characters on the fringes of society and social norms set adrift from a permanent home. Later Hollywood crime films would replicate the amour fou scenario, but the visual poetry of this film remains completely unique to Ray. (16mm. 95 min. Not Rated.) In a Lonely Place (1950) Directed by Nicholas Ray Sunday - February 3 - 3:00 p.m. A semi-autobiographical critique of Hollywood itself, filtered through the cynical lens of film noir, this brooding Humphrey Bogart vehicle explores one of the most important themes in Ray’s work: the redemptive potential of romantic love caught in tension with the personally destructive nature of masculine violence, neurotic obsession, and self-expression. The film is a study in the paranoia and alienation endemic to the modernity of postwar America, with Bogart as a burned-out screenwriter under investigation for murder and Gloria Grahame as the woman he loves who begins to question his innocence. (35mm. 94 min. Not Rated.) A Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Directed by Nicholas Ray Sunday - February 10 - 3:00 p.m. Critics often cite this domestic melodrama as one of Ray’s greatest achievements, and it stands as his most popular and well-known film to date. Famous in large part for James Dean’s iconic starring role, it demonstrates Ray’s masterful techniques with his actors (and his investment in “The Method”), as well as his almost hallucinatory use of color and CinemaScope. Dean plays Jim Stark, a suburban teenage delinquent searching to find his place within his family at home and among his troubled peers in high school. (35mm. 111 min. Rated PG-13.) We Can’t Go Home Again (2011) Directed by Nicholas Ray Sunday - February 17 - 3:00 p.m. Ray’s final film was an experimental, pseudodocumentary collaboration with his students at SUNY – Binghamton in the 1970s. While it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973, he continued editing the film until his death in 1979. Seeking a new language of cinema, he projected multiple Super 8, 16 millimeter, and video images on a pro-filmic screen and then re-filmed them with a 35 millimeter camera. This new version is the most complete cut of the film, digitally restored under the supervision of Ray’s widow Susan to commemorate his centenary. 35mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Restoration produced by The Nicholas Ray Foundation with EYE Film Institute Netherlands and The Academy Film Archive, with additional support from RAI, Gucci, The Film Foundation, The Gulbenkian Foundation, La Cinematheque Francaise, and Museo Internazionale del Cinema. Picture restored by Cineric, Inc.; Sound by Audio Mechanics. (35mm. 90 min. Not Rated.) 31cinema.indiana.edu Tickets: Nicholas Ray (812) 855-110331