ABOUT THE EVENT:

6:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Trio

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Laura Ellis

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi

7:15pm | A MAN CALLED ADAM

8:54pm | Intermission

9:04pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi

9:14pm | ALL NIGHT LONG

Start times are approximate.

ABOUT THE FILMS:

A MAN CALLED ADAM, 1966, Dir. Leo Penn, 99 Mins, Rialto Pictures, USA

Originally released August 3, 1966

Sammy Davis, Jr. like you’ve never seen him before! Sammy plays Adam, the cornetist whose prodigious talent is dwarfed only by his penchant for self-destruction. He maps out a comeback with the help of a saxophonist turned Civil Rights activist and his granddaughter, but it doesn’t take long for the demons to come calling. One of the most unrelentingly bleak noir films of the 1960s, economically directed by Leo Penn (father of Oscar-winner Sean) and tailored to showcase musical luminaries George Rhodes and Louis Armstrong as they tear up real New York City nightclubs. Featuring memorably intense supporting turns by Davis’ Rat Pack cohort, Peter Lawford, and Rat Pack offspring, Frank Sinatra Jr.

ALL NIGHT LONG, 1962, Dir. Basil Dearden, 91 Mins, AGFA, UK

Originally released February 6, 1962

ALL NIGHT LONG redresses William Shakespeare’s Othello for pulp audiences. Patrick McGoohan is an ambitious drummer who tries to coax a famous singer out of retirement to front his band. The singer declines and the drummer becomes so obsessed with destroying her marriage that he risks his own relationship and career in the process. There’s a perverse delight in watching party gossip spread like wildfire, especially when you know the source will get burned, but ALL NIGHT LONG isn’t just a slick meditation on celebrity. The film captures musical icons Dave Brubeck, John Scott and Charles Mingus in their prime, making it an invaluable time capsule of the London jazz scene in the early 1960s. Featuring a heartbreaking turn by Betsy Blair.