Yes, it’s finally here, like a Christmas package in February. Filmusik and our cohorts are taking on a classic film-noir. It’s going to be great!! Nothing like classic black and white crime capers to take the edge off a long Portland winter (we also seem to be continuing our organizational crush on Lee Van Cleef with this one). it’s a great film if you haven’t seen it. And if you’re going to see it… why not see it with a live jazz orchestra? (that’s a rhetorical question, there is in fact no reason not to see it with a live jazz orchestra).

Filmusik: KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL
March 10th, 11th and 12th
7PM at the Hollywood Theatre
$10, students/seniors $8

Portland’s live soundtrack troupe is taking on something more American than apple pie and the super-bowl combined. Performing a new jazz soundtrack to accompany a classic film-noir, Filmusik’s jazz orchestra brings the work of local artists and composers to the movies for a show of bebop and gumshoes under the big screen at the the Hollywood Theatre.

Kansas City Confidential (1952): It may have been the perfect hold-up, but after an armored car robbery drops Rolfe (John Payne) in jail as a fall guy, he won’t give up until he’s cleared his name by tracking down the faceless thieves. Justice may not be as simple as it seems for Rolfe who is led to Mexico in the hunt for redemption and cold hard cash with only a pistol and a playing card! With the stone faced intensity of Lee Van Cleef and Preston Foster, it’s a movie not to miss, a pulpy snub-nosed entry into the American film canon.