No Way Out

Sidney Poitier was in his early 20s when he made his big-screen debut in this searing drama about a Black doctor who must provide treatment to a pair of racist brothers shot while committing a robbery. When one of the brothers dies in the care of Poitier, the other (Richard Widmark) accuses him of murder and writer-director Joseph Mankiewicz keeps ratcheting up the tension. An Academy Award-nominee for Writing (Story and Screenplay) where Mankiewicz improbably competed against himself for his other release that year (All About Eve, for which he won), No Way Out also marks the first time that Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee appeared together on-screen. An unflinching look into the resolute face of racism, No Way Out remains all too relevant.

Native Son

Richard Wright stars in this hypnotically bleak noir adaptation of his own best-selling, controversial novel of the same name about Chicago chauffeur Bigger Thomas whose violent impulses and moral confusion are the inevitable result of generations of institutionalized racism. A lavish Argentinian production directed by Pierre Chenal, an exiled Belgian Jew, Native Son was made entirely outside the American film industry and was heavily censored when it originally screened in the United States. A complete 16mm print of the original Argentinian release and an incomplete 35mm duplicate negative of the uncensored cut were combined for the current restoration, the most complete version of the film ever shown in this country.

Make It Dinner and a Movie

Fanny's Restaurant & Café

All guests who present a ticket for a film screening, Tuesday through Saturday (and the first Sunday of every month), receive 10% off all food and non-alcoholic beverages at Fanny's. Discount only applicable on the same day as the screening and cannot be redeemed for another screening or date. Dinner reservations can be made on OpenTable or Resy.