New York City’s Film Forum is ringing out the old year with a 75th anniversary re-release of Sir Carol Reed’s noir classic “The Third Man.”
The 1949 feature stars Joseph Cotton as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Western novels who arrives in post-World War II Vienna at the invitation of his pal Harry Lime. But once in the city, he discovers that Lime was killed – except that the story of Lime’s death doesn’t quite seem right.
With its Oscar-winning expressionistic cinematography, distinctive zither music score by Anton Karas and tour-de-force performance by Orson Welles as Harry Lime, “The Third Man” was named the greatest British film of all time by the by the British Film Institute.
Film Forum will present “The Third Man” in 35mm from Dec. 29 through Jan. 4. More information is available on the Film Forum website. www.filmforum.org
