Fatal Instinct

"...their cinematic predecessors -- naughty noirs Body Heat and Double Indemnity -- and subject them all to the Airplane!/Naked..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

ColdTowne Theater's Deja Noir

Double Indemnity provides the structure for an improvised and hilarious riff on those dark crime films out of the past

"...comedy is structured around the 1944 film noir classic Double Indemnity, though knowledge of that film isn't necessary to..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, Strangers on a Train

"...for their help in providing videos, laser discs, and DVDs.)DOUBLE INDEMNITY D: Billy Wilder (1944); with Fred MacMurray, Barbara..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Being Bad Never Looked So Good

Austin Public Library tackles Tough Guys and Feisty Femmes in a new film series. And it's free!

"...avuncular and less keen for killing in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity. That's the same Billy Wilder who co-scripted Ball..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 2

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 8-14

"...Noir Canon: Double Indemnity Billy Wilder cranks up the heat in his..."

July 7, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Femme Fatale

A triumph of style over logic, this is still one of the best films from this period of De Palma's career.

"...against himself. Femme Fatale, with its thematic motifs of doubles, voyeurism, and paranoia, brings to mind such earlier De..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Paramount Lights Up Tonight With the Classic Film Series

An Austin tradition returns with Casablanca

"...to catch episide one of the show in a double bill with Dorothy Arzner 1932 drama Merrily We Go..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Forget it, Jake; it's Sin City.

"...moment you’re reminded of Fred MacMurray’s poor sap in Double Indemnity; then you start thinking about the similarities between..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lady Be Good

Austin Film Society presents pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck

"...most enduring roles were defined by shrewdness and unsentimentality: Double Indemnity's cold-blooded femme fatale, the nightclub chanteuse dropping street..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

All Shades of Black

How do you define film noir?

"...universally acknowledged as noir classics include Murder My Sweet, Double Indemnity, Laura, Phantom Lady (1944); Detour, Scarlet Street, Mildred..."

July 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Shaggy Dog

There are precious few surprises here, but this breezy remake starring Tim Allen is a painless affair.

"...own father (this quite apart from the genius of Double Indemnity). Adding the dreamy Annette Funicello to the mix..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tin Drum

"...Double Indemnity (Monarch): If you die on accident, you and..."

July 16, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

The Cinema of Dual Citizens

In the upcoming series Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950, the Austin Film Society will be screening (at the Alamo Drafthouse) six classic films reflecting the ethical sensibilities and aesthetic innovations of these exiled masters.

"...émigrés as Lang and solidified in 1944 with Wilder's Double Indemnity and Preminger's Laura. Lang's Fury, the first film..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Billy Wilder, In Memoriam

Last week saw the passing of Billy Wilder: a caustic wit, a clear-eyed romantic, a biting social observer, a legend of Hollywood's Golden Age.

"...Itch, or The Fortune Cookie; or dark dramas like Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Stalag 17, Sunset Blvd., or..."

April 5, 2002 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Movie Events

"...The Big Clock: 7:15 The Blue Dahlia: 9:10 9/3 Double Indemnity: 7:15 The Killers (1946): 9:20 9/4 The Killers..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Summer Film Events

"...The Big Clock: 7:15 The Blue Dahlia: 9:10 9/3 Double Indemnity: 7:15 The Killers (1946): 9:20 9/4 The Killers..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Final Analysis

"...by painting by the numbers. He's mixed parts of Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, and Vertigo, but the result..."

Feb. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Clip and Save

The 2005 Paramount Summer Film Classics series

"...ticket is good for an individual screening or a double feature (consecutive screenings thematically linked; e.g., by actor, genre,..."

May 20, 2005 Screens Feature

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a stunning achievement that will live forever.

"...betrayal, and murder that, along with Mildred Pierce and Double Indemnity (all by James Cain -- are we sensing..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Summer Continues at the Paramount

Part two the the annual Summer Classic Film Series

"...Paramount Nightmare Alley, Wed., July 13, 7:30pm , Stateside Double Indemnity, Thu., July 14, 7:30pm, Paramount Studio Ghibli Day..."

June 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Cinema Announces Reopening Date, First Lineup of Films

The arthouse mecca brings new titles, immortal classics

"...crime dramas with The Big Sleep (Aug. 6, 8), Double Indemnity (Aug. 13, 15), and Touch of Evil (Aug...."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Life Reconstructed in Noir Classic The Killers

A death in New Jersey

"...Unlike Walter Neff, the dying lead of Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (set for the Canon in July) who recalls..."

June 21, 2019 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

Noir City Film Festival Redefines the All-American Genre

Black, white, and red all over

"...who want a definitive explanation of what 1940s classic Double Indemnity-style film noir is." Consider Gerd Oswald's A Kiss..."

May 17, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Review: The Annotated Big Sleep

Everything you need to know about Raymond Chandler's classic

"...followed, as well as his screenplays for the films Double Indemnity and The Blue Dahlia. Arguably, The Big Sleep..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Chronicle Recommends: Crime and No Punishment

For Crime Month, our favorite films about getting away with it

"...Forties and Fifties film noir, and its similarities to Double Indemnity have been duly noted. In Kathleen Turner's square-shouldered,..."

July 9, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...and MacMurray torched the screen in Billy Wilder's here's-how-you-do-noir Double Indemnity, the two did a slow-burn comic waltz in..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Send a Card for Girlfriend's Day

Director talks Bob Odenkirk's Netflix crime comedy

"...obvious nods to this, and you have the classic Double Indemnity."..."

Feb. 21, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

July Is Crime Month: Fade to Black

Screen noir this week at AFS, the Paramount, and BookPeople

"...is showing Mildred Pierce, the 1945 adaptation of James "Double Indemnity" Cain's domestic noir that snagged an Oscar for..."

July 21, 2014 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Redacted, Then Redressed

AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films

"...this: Part 1 came out the same year as Double Indemnity and Meet Me in St. Louis.) A startling,..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner

So I'm trying this new thing …

"...biding his time in the "death chamber" that marked Double Indemnity's original ending. Rita Hayworth, impossibly girlish, leaping over..."

June 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

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