IFI commemorates Raymond Chandler

admin | September 3, 2009

The IFI will be presenting a special season celebrating the work of Raymond Chandler – one of the most influential and widely read crime writers in the history of the genre – to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.

Chandler’s Los Angeles-based detective Philip Marlowe became the blueprint for what we think of as the hardboiled detective. The author’s dazzling prose, his mythologising of Los Angeles, his acerbic, witty tough-guy dialogue and his adoption by Hollywood all combined to make him part of crime fiction’s very DNA.

The special season starts on 5th August and the IFI will present many of Chandler’s biggest screen successes including Murder, My Sweet, The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall), The Blue Dahlia (Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake) and the Billy Wilder-directed Double Indemnity.

The season will also include an illustrated talk by Adrian Wootton (director of Crime Scene Festival and CEO of Film London) featuring film/audio clips and chronicling the author’s extraordinary life and career.

Tickets can be purchased at the IFI, online at www.ifi.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.