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:

• The Burglar
• Shoot the Piano Player
• The Unfaithful
• Dark Passage
• Interview With Series Director

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)

Full Program

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.

Pépé Le Moko (1937)

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

This year’s 56th Annual San Sebastián International Film Festival is titled Japan in Black: Japanese Film Noir.

From 18-27 September, the series will screen 40 noir and crime films including, Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog and High and Low, Seijun Suzuki’s Youth of the Beast and Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard of Honour, and rarities such as  Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower, Rokuro Mochizuki’s Onibi: The Fire Within and Yoshitaro Nomura’s Zero Focus.

Visit the San Sebastián Film Festival site For the full program.

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 39 (!) French films noir and thrillers.

The full program has not yet been released, but the French Embassy’s French culture site has released early details:

“This festival of 39 prime examples opens with the late ex-pat Jules Dassin’s classic heist picture Rififi, which kick-started a whole new cycle of French Noir, and includes both classics and rarities by such masters of the genre as Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le flambeur, Le Cercle rouge, Un flic), Jacques Becker (Touchez pas au grisbi), Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique, Wages of Fear), Georges Franju (Eyes Without a Face), René Clément (Purple Noon), Louis Malle (Elevator to the Gallows), Claude Chabrol (La Cérémonie), and François Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid, The Bride Wore Black). Among the many stars showcased are the five great hommes durs (tough guys) of the genre — Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Yves Montand, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Alain Delon — and such femmes fatales as Simone Signoret, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, and Brigitte Bardot. The festival concludes with a one-week run of Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player.“

The Webster University Film Series will present a Samuel Fuller film each Thursday through July, starting tonight with his directorial debut, I Shot Jesse James (1949).

Coming up:

Pickup on South Street (1949) - July 10
Underworld, U.S.A (1961) - July 17
Shock Corridor (1963)  - July 24
The Big Red One (1980) - July 31

The Flint Institute of Art will screen a program of four films noir over the weekend of 18-20 July 2008 during its Rough Guys and Tough Dames Film Noir Festival:

Friday July 18 7:30 pm
Scarlet Street (U.S., 1945) directed by Fritz Lang, 103 min

Saturday July 19 7:30 pm
The Hitch-Hiker (U.S., 1953) directed by Ida Lupino, 71 min

Sunday July 20 2:00 pm Double Feature
Contraband (aka Blackout) (U.K., 1940) directed by Michael Powell, 80 min
Detour (U.S., 1945) directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, 67 min.

Full details here.