Community Calendar

🕛 What if you could live the past year over again? Would you make different choices—or discover that fate has other plans?

On Sunday, September 27, the Ojai Art Center Film Branch presents Repeat Performance (1947), a fascinating film noir with an irresistible supernatural twist.

After a disastrous New Year’s Eve, Broadway actress Sheila Page makes a desperate wish to relive the previous year—and suddenly finds herself transported back to January 1. Armed with the knowledge of what lies ahead, she sets out to prevent the mistakes, betrayals, and tragedy that led to that fateful night.

Starring Joan Leslie and Louis Hayward, Repeat Performance blends noir suspense, psychological drama, and fantasy into one of the genre’s most unusual hidden gems.

🖤 Film noir with a time-travel twist
🎭 Love, jealousy, fate & second chances
🎥 A wonderfully unusual classic worth rediscovering
✨ Even better with fellow film lovers on the big screen

🎬 Repeat Performance (1947)
📍 Ojai Art Center
🗓 Sunday, September 27
🕖 7 PM
🎟 $10 at the door

If you had the chance to do it all over again…would you really be able to change the ending?

🌙 A chance encounter. A mysterious woman. A dangerous journey where nothing is quite what it seems.

On Sunday, October 4, the Ojai Art Center Film Branch presents The Chase (1946), a haunting film noir that blurs the line between reality and nightmare.

Robert Cummings stars as a down-on-his-luck veteran who finds a wallet and returns it to its wealthy owner—only to land a job working for a ruthless Miami gangster, played with chilling menace by Steve Cochran. When he becomes drawn to the gangster’s beautiful, trapped wife (Michèle Morgan), escape seems possible…but in the world of noir, nothing is ever that simple.

Based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, The Chase combines crime, romance, suspense, and surreal twists to create one of the more unusual—and wonderfully unpredictable—films of the noir era.

🖤 Dreamlike noir with plenty of twists
🎥 Crime, obsession & forbidden romance
🌴 Miami glamour with a sinister edge
✨ A hidden gem made for rediscovery on the big screen

🎬 The Chase (1946)
📍 Ojai Art Center
🗓 Sunday, October 4
🕖 7 PM
🎟 $10 at the door

When you enter the shadows of The Chase, don’t be too sure you know what’s real.

🔎 He knows exactly how to solve the crime…because he helped cover it up.

On Sunday, October 11, the Ojai Art Center Film Branch presents The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), a taut film noir about murder, loyalty, and the dangerous consequences of crossing the line.

Lee J. Cobb stars as a veteran San Francisco police detective who makes a fateful decision to protect the woman he loves after she kills her husband. But there’s one complication: he’s assigned to investigate the very crime he’s trying to conceal.

Even worse? His younger brother—also a detective—is working the case alongside him.

Set against the streets and landmarks of San Francisco, The Man Who Cheated Himself turns the traditional murder mystery on its head. We know who did it. The suspense comes from watching the truth close in.

🖤 Murder, deception & divided loyalties
🌉 Atmospheric San Francisco locations
🎥 Lee J. Cobb at the center of an irresistible noir dilemma
✨ A hidden gem worth discovering on the big screen

🎬 The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
📍 Ojai Art Center
🗓 Sunday, October 11
🕖 7 PM
🎟 $10 at the door

Sometimes the hardest criminal to outsmart is yourself.

🌃 When night falls, Chicago comes alive—and so do its secrets.

On Sunday, October 18, the Ojai Art Center Film Branch presents City That Never Sleeps (1953), a stylish film noir that takes us through one unforgettable night on the shadowy streets of Chicago.

Gig Young stars as a disillusioned police officer ready to walk away from his badge, his marriage, and the life he knows. But before the night is over, he’ll cross paths with criminals, nightclub performers, corrupt schemes—and a mysterious fellow cop played by Chill Wills.

And watching over it all is Chicago itself, given a voice of its own as the city narrates this atmospheric tale of temptation, regret, and redemption.

With Mala Powers, William Talman, and a memorable performance by Wally Cassell as a nightclub performer known as the Mechanical Man, City That Never Sleeps is an offbeat noir gem filled with neon lights, dark streets, and people searching for a way out.

🌃 Chicago after dark
🖤 Crime, temptation & second chances
🎥 A wonderfully atmospheric noir worth rediscovering
✨ See it where classic movies belong—on the big screen

🎬 City That Never Sleeps (1953)
📍 Ojai Art Center
🗓 Sunday, October 18
🕖 7 PM
🎟 $10 at the door

The city never sleeps…and tonight, neither will you.

🔥 One desperate decision. One terrible crime. And a city hungry for someone to blame.

On Sunday, October 25, the Ojai Art Center Film Branch presents The Sound of Fury (1950), a powerful film noir that turns economic desperation into a chilling story of crime, guilt, and mob justice.

Frank Lovejoy stars as Howard Tyler, an unemployed family man struggling to make ends meet. When he falls under the influence of a charismatic small-time criminal played by Lloyd Bridges, the promise of easy money leads him down a path from which there may be no return.

Also known as Try and Get Me!, the film goes beyond the usual noir shadows and suspense to ask unsettling questions about responsibility, sensationalism, and what happens when public outrage becomes a force of its own.

🖤 Dark, tense & emotionally gripping
📰 Crime, sensationalism & mob mentality
🎥 A hard-hitting noir that still packs a punch
✨ A hidden gem worth experiencing on the big screen

🎬 The Sound of Fury (1950)
📍 Ojai Art Center
🗓 Sunday, October 25
🕖 7 PM
🎟 $10 at the door

Sometimes the most frightening thing isn’t one person’s crime—it’s what happens when an entire crowd wants revenge.