As a special follow-up series BAM invites critic J. Hoberman back after 2008's 30 years of J. Hoberman for the publication of his new book "An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War" and a special film series featuring 13 Cold War-era films.
(1953) Pickup on South Street, directed by Samuel Fuller with Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/
Film description by J. Hoberman:
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McCarthyism pushed to the far side of moon: Commie spies battle for US nuclear secrets against a conspicuously unpatriotic pickpocket, a professional stool pigeon, and a sullen floozy. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was offended; writer-directer Sam Fuller didn't care.
Showings at 2:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm.
