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"Of all the great filmmakers who fled Europe amid the ascent of the Nazis in Germany and turned up in Hollywood, few did more to shape our sense of film genre than Robert Siodmak. Born to German Jewish parents at the dawn of the 20th century, Siodmak spent decades honing his chameleonic sensibility and influential style across a variety of studios and national cinemas. Perhaps his most vital contributions came within the domain of film noir—such richly atmospheric and sophisticatedly hard-edged works as The Killers (1946), Criss Cross (1949), Phantom Lady (1944), and The Suspect (1942)—but each film that Siodmak directed, no matter the genre and no matter whether in Germany, France nor Hollywood, powerfully bears his imprint. Join Film at Lincoln Center for a retrospective dedicated to one of Hollywood’s most enduringly influential yet too-little-celebrated helmers, featuring an assortment of new 4K digital restorations of his signature films. "-FLC