Description: KCCS hosts the first of a series highlighting groundbreaking narrative works shot and set in the Big Apple, at Vox Pop in Ditmas Park. The Naked City (1948, 96min) is first, naturally: a gritty, semi-documentary portrait of post-war NYC from director Jules Dassin (before he was blacklisted and exiled to France). A procedural that set the standard for the endless parade of cop dramas and TV shows that followed, THE NAKED CITY follows tough detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran all over Manhattan as they track the killer of a beautiful model, culminating in a classic chase and shootout atop the Williamsburg Bridge. The film that spawned the popular TV series. “There are eight million stories in the naked city. This is one of them.
Details: Vox Pop Cafe, 8pm, 1022 Cortelyou Rd. Q to Cortelyou. voxpopcafe.com Live music to follow at 10pm.