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Countdown To Noir City San Francisco
Just a little over 2 weeks left until the Castro Theatre in San Francisco is graced with a plethora of film noir fans for 10 days.
From January 20th to the 29th, expect to be treated to a sublime selection of noirs at this, my favorite of film festivals.
New this year will be a 1940's style nightclub held at the Swedish American Hall on Saturday night, January 28th.
Check out the film noir program now...
Pedro Almodovar Picks Noirs
In the recent AFI Festival in Hollywood (that's American Film Institute's annual film festival), Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar was the Guest Artistic Director. His own films include themes of darkness, desire and psychological teetering.
Two of the five films he selected to play at the festival are film noir classics: "Nightmare Alley" and "The Killers" (the earlier, Robert Siodmak version).
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Of "The Killers", in the festival program, Almodovar says, "The characters are usually unaware of fatality, that's why the behavior of Burt Lancaster's character is so moving and also so intriguing. He could escape, run away to Mexico, but he's tired, he knows that one day some killers he doesn't know will come and kill him."
Almodovar says of "Nightmare Alley": "After a run of bad luck, the unscrupulous mentalist (Tyrone Power) meets his downfall...The ending is sordid and moving, humble in form, without adornments, but terrifying."
Born to Kill
Love love love Born to Kill! So many contemporary movies have characters merely hold back feelings, thoughts and information from each other in order to
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Sins - On TCM
What was her first movie? I am looking for a movie that the theme was the sins of the father started out as a rapist wagon master, now this was a black
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Film Noir
Especially for classic film noir fans. Entertaining blog, plus where to find film noir DVDs, festivals, music, posters and more.
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Film Noir In Chicago
The Chicago version of Noir City is currently underway with an exciting lineup of choice films presented by the Film Noir Foundation and the Music Box Theatre.
For one week, from August 12 to 18, sixteen films will screen at this 3rd annual Chicago film noir festival. Many showed earlier this year at Noir City in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Whatever you do, don't miss "Brute Force" with Burt Lancaster.
Click here to find out what features are showing...
Sizzling Film Noir In Palm Springs
There's still time to catch some film noir in Palm Springs this weekend. The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival at the Camelot Theatre is running Thursday May 12th through Sunday May 15th. On Saturday, four films are showing: 99 River Street with Evelyn Keyes and John Payne, Plunder Road (with an ensemble cast including Jeanne Cooper, who will make a guest appearance), Loophole with Charles McGraw and Barry Sullivan and Mirage with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker (she will also make a guest appearance).
Sunday you can see Crashout with William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy and Luther Adler, Saboteur by Hitchcock (actor and producer Norman Lloyd will appear in person) and The Damned Don't Cry, starring Joan Crawford.
Get the nitty gritty details here!
How's This For A Film Noir Sub Genre?
The Jewish Film Club Vienna and Austria Film Archive are presenting a Jewish Film Noir Festival from April 3rd to April 7th. So if you're in the area, kommen sie bitte!
Among the films shown will be "Crossfire", "Act of Violence", "Der Verlorene", "Decoy", "Address Unknown", "Schwarzer Kies", and "Sunset Boulevard". See details at www.juedischer-filmclub.at.
Noir City Comes To Hollywood
From April 1st to April 20th, (not Monday or Tuesday) the annual festivalof film noir in Los Angeles will be held once again at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Here's your chance to view up to fourteen double features, most of which you can't see on DVD.
This event is copresented by the Film Noir Foundation and the American Cinematheque. To view the juicy offerings, go to the American Cinematheque calendar.
Amazon Offers Instant Video Streaming
If you want to rent film noir to see a soon as possible, the selection at Amazon is slim so far, but the price is right and the service is accommodating. Find out how to rent DVD movies at Amazon.
