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Valentine's Day inspires no shortage of sarcastic backlash celebrations, but this year there's no more perverse way to celebrate the hearts-and-candy holiday than with BMFI's screening of In a Lonely Place. Humphrey Bogart has never been as raw and vulnerably ugly as he is as Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter with a violent temper and a bottomless self-loathing. His implication in the murder of a young girl both instigates and threatens his relationship with aspiring actress Gloria Grahame, who is by turns attracted and repulsed by the fact that his guilt can never be entirely ruled out. Nicholas Ray's bleakly humorous noir is never particularly concerned with whodunit; instead, Ray turns his caustic camera and Bogie's withering wit toward one of cinema's most violently passionate (and passionately violent) love stories.

Tue., Feb. 14, 7 p.m., $10, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org.