Dark Passage (1947)
In his The Evening Class blog, Michael Guillen, has posted a series of reports and interviews from The Dark Cinema of David Goodis series, including introductory remarks to each screening from Eddie Muller and Pacific Fim Archives director Steve Seid:
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Highway 301 (1950)
On October 2 the Seattle Art Museum will start a film noir series Night Wind: The Film Noir Cycle.
Ten mostly rarely screened movies from the early 50’s will screen each Friday until December 2:
October 2: Storm Warning (1951)
October 9: Highway 301 (1950)
October 16: Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
October 23: Johnny O’Clock (1947)
October 30: Pickup on South Street (1953)
November 6: The Man Between (1953)
November 13: Wicked Woman (1953)
November 20: Black Widow (1954)
December 4: The Night Holds Terror (1955)
December 11: A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
Laura (1944)
August is Film Noir Month at MovieZeal.com. A crew of film reviewers and bloggers has been assembled to write reviews of and articles on 31 selected noirs.
On September 2 Fox Home Entertainment will release DVDs of three restored and remastered “film noir” titles: Boomerang! (1947), Moontide (1942), and Road House (1948).
Bomerang! directed by Elia Kazan, and Moontide starring Jean Gabin in his first US film, are peripheral noir titles, while Road House has strong noir credentials.
More details from So Hood Magazine.
Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis will run from August 1 - 23 at the Pacific Film Archive. Kelly Vance in a feature in today’s East Bay Express, previews the program and gives a short biography of Goodis.
The films to be shown:
And Hope to Die
The Burglar
The Burglars
Dark Passage
Descent into Hell
Nightfall
The Professional Man x Two
Shoot the Piano Player
The Unfaithful
There is a full program at the Archive’s web site.
A special 50th Anniversay 2-DVD set of Orson Welles’ film noir, Touch of Evil (1958), to be released by Universal on October 7, will include in three versions of the movie, which most noir pundits agree marks the end of the classic film noir cycle: theatrical, preview and restored based on Welles’ original vision, and a copy of the 58-page memo Welles wrote to the studio before the film’s release asking for his original-cut re to be restored, after it had been butchered by studio hacks. The request fell on deaf ears.
More info from Welles.Net.
Further to my post of July 11, the full program for the The French Crime Wave: Film Noir & Thrillers 1937-2000 series is now available on the New York Film Forum Web Site. The Series has been dedicated to the memory of Jules Dassin, who died this year.
Over four weeks from August 8 to September 4 the NY Film Forum Movie House, 209 West Houston Street, New York NY 10014, will screen 38 French films noir and thrillers:
Band Of Outsiders
Bob Le Flambeur
Borsalino
Breathless
Casque D’or
Le Cercle Rouge
La Cérémonie
Classe Tous Risques
The Clockmaker
Coup De Torchon
Diabolique
Le Doulos
Elevator To The Gallows
Eyes Without A Face
Un Flic
Garde À Vue
Goupi Mains Rouges
A Man Escaped
Mississippi Mermaid
Murderous Maids
Pépé Le Moko
Pickpocket
Pierrot Le Fou
La Piscine
Police Python 357
Purple Noon
Quai Des Orfèvres
Rififi
Riptide
Série Noire
Shoot The Piano Player
The Sicilian Clan
The Thief Of Paris
Les Tontons Flingueurs
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
La Vérité
The Wages Of Fear
We Are All Murderers
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