Essential Cinema

Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress
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This June, the Roxy pays tribute to a host of extraordinary films--from every genre imaginable--turning 30 this year with Summer Rewind: 1995! 

June 4 & 8: Casino June 5: The Celluloid Closet (Queer West Film Fest)
June 6 - 8: Safe
June 7: Babe
June 11 & 15: Heat
June 13 - 15: Welcome to the Dollhouse 
June 14: Batman Forever 
June 17: La Haine (Cinema Abroad)
June 18 & 22: Seven 
June 19: Devil in a Blue Dress (Essential Cinema)
June 21: Jumanji 
June 24: Ghost in the Shell (Persistence of Vision: Animated Masterworks)
June 25 & 29: 12 Monkeys June 26: GoldenEye (Knockout Cinema) 
June 27 - 29: Dead Man 
June 28: Tommy Boy 

Devil in a Blue Dress: The bone-deep disillusionment of postwar film noir becomes a powerful vehicle to explore America’s racial injustices in Carl Franklin’s richly atmospheric Devil in a Blue Dress, an adaptation of the hard-boiled novel by Walter Mosley. Denzel Washington has charisma to burn as the jobless ex-GI Easy Rawlins, who sees a chance to make some quick cash when he’s recruited to find the missing lover (Jennifer Beals) of a wealthy mayoral candidate in late-1940s Los Angeles—only to find himself embroiled in murder, political intrigue, and a scandal that crosses the treacherous color lines of a segregated society. Featuring breakout work by Don Cheadle as Rawlins’s cheerfully trigger-happy sidekick, this stylish mystery both channels and subverts classic noir tropes as it exposes the bitter racial realities underlying the American dream.
Cast: Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle,
Director: Carl Franklin
Written by: Carl Franklin
Rated: R
Duration: 101 min
Released: 1995
Genre: Mystery

Essential Cinema

Devil in a Blue Dress