Thanks again to Dark City Dame for this news. The 2009 Palm Springs Film Noir Festival will run from May 28-31.
The following movies are screening:
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)
THE BAD SEED (1956)
THE BREAKING POINT (1950)
BRUTE FORCE (1947)
CRISS CROSS (1949)
DESERT FURY (1947)
FEMALE ON THE BEACH(1955)
THE GARMENT JUNGLE (1957)
RIFFRAFF (1947)
THIEF (1981)
Thanks to Dark City Dame for this news. San Francisco’s Roxie Theatre is screening a whole swag of b-noirs in May under the banner: I WAKE UP DREAMING: The Haunted World of the B Film Noir.
Friday May 15:
THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE (1947)
THE GUILTY (1947)
Saturday May 16:
RAW DEAL (1948)
RAILROADED (1947)
Sunday May 17:
CANON CITY (1948)
FRAMED (1947)
Monday May 18:
THE SPECTER OF THE ROSE (1946)
THE MADONNA’S SECRET (1946)
Tuesday May 19:
THE STORY OF MOLLY X (1949)
PORT OF FORTY THIEVES (1944)
Wednesday May 20:
THE LAST CROOKED MILE (1946)
VIOLENCE (1947)
Thursday May 21:
PRIVATE HELL 36 (1954)
NO MAN’S WOMAN (1955)
Friday May 22:
NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL (1955)
THE HOODLUM (1951)
Saturday May 23:
THE BURGLAR (1957)
WITNESS TO MURDER (1954)
Sunday May 24:
REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1946)
HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948)
Monday May 25:
WOMEN IN THE NIGHT (1948)
UNDER AGE (1941)
Tuesday May 26:
SUSPENSE (1946)
THE PRETENDER (1947)
Wednesday, May 27:
ALLOTMENT WIVES (1945)
WIFE WANTED (1946)
Thursday May 28:
CITY OF FEAR (1959)
SHACK OUT ON 101 (1955)
Full details here.
The American Cinematheque Noir City Film Noir Festival 2009 will run from April 2-19, 2009 at LA’s famous Egyptian Theatre.
The Series will feature many rare noirs and a number of newly restored prints. Hosted by co-programmers Eddie Muller, Alan K. Rode and Chris D, who on the last day of the Series, Sunday, April 19, will present a special afternoon memorial tribute to actress Ann Savage with testimonial panels and screenings.
The festival will feature:
There are also new prints of rarities like John Farrow’s ALIAS NICK BEAL, Joseph Losey’s THE PROWLER, SIX BRIDGES TO CROSS, WOMAN ON PIER 13, and THE OCTOBER MAN.
Full details at the Egyptian Theatre.
Jules Dassin: 1911-2008
Rififi (1955)
The New York Film Forum from March 27 to April 12 will host a Jules Dassin retrospective over 12 days. March 31 mark the anniversary of Dassin’s passing. All of Dassin’s major features will be screened, including:
Masculine Impairment in Film Noir
Double Indemnity (1944)
An interesting article, Masculine Impairment in Double Indemnity and The Last Seduction, by Kerry E Bogert has been posted at Red Room, an on-line writer’s collective.
The British Film Institute will screen 19 classic noirs and neo-noirs from February 27 to March 25 at its Southbank London cinema during its The Femme Fatale series. The 1950 cult pulp noir from Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, will headline the series, screening daily, and will also also receive a limited national release.
Movies to be screened are:
Body Heat
Chinatown
Criss Cross
Detour
Devil in a Blue Dress
Double Indemnity
The File on Thelma Jordon
Gilda
Gun Crazy
The Killers
The Lady From Shanghai
The Last Seduction
The Long Goodbye
The Maltese Falcon
Niagara
Out of the Past
Scarlet Street
Vertigo
Where Danger Lives
Noir City 7: Best Essay
San Francisco Bay Guardian critic Max Goldberg has written what I think is the best essay to come out of Noir City 7 - Late Edition posted on his text of light blog:
“… The newsroom is as much a part of noir’s topography as the police station, boxing ring or nightclub. Deadline-U.S.A. (1952), Scandal Sheet (1952), The Big Clock (1948), While the City Sleeps (1956): the titles bow to the newspaper’s ubiquitous pulse by slinging shop-talk into nighthawk poetry. The press curries a surplus of centralized power in this cycle of films, exerting a primary influence over the whole urban mechanism…”
Noir City 7: Reports from Alexander Coleman
Noir fan and erudite film blogger Alexander Coleman has posted at Coleman’s Corner in Cinema some outstanding reports from and reviews of noirs screened at Frisco’s Castro Theatre at Noir City 7, including:
These posts and other noir reviews are also hosted at Dark City Dame’s Noirish City.
Noir City 7: Report by Hell on Frisco Bay
Brian from Hell on Frisco Bay in his report on Noir City has a lot of interesting news on upcoming noir-related events and impressions of some of the noirs screened this year. Particularly exciting news is his report that Eddie Muller is working on an international noir series, and that while Muller was in Buenos Aires to meet the archivists who made last summer’s announcement of rediscovered footage lost from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, he came across a trove of Argentine films from the 1930s made by the great noir cinematographer John Alton.
From The Vaults of Universal: Seven Classic Films Noir
Starting Monday February 16, the Heights Theatre in Minneapolis is screening a short series of classic films noir:
February 16 7:30pm This Gun For Hire (1942)
February 23 7:30pm Criss Cross (1949) | 9:15pm The Killers (1946)
March 2 7:30pm The Big Clock (1948)
March 9 7:30pm The Blue Dahlia (1946) | 9:15pm The Glass Key (1942)
March 16 7:30pm The Phantom Lady (1944)
Jean-Pierre Melville, Director: Notes on the French Auteur’s Career
This month’s edition of Bright Lights Film Journal features an article by Garry Morris on Melville, whose noirs include Bob le Flambeur, Le Doulos, Le Samourai, & The Red Circle .
Robert Ryan: A Moon for the Misbegotten
This month’s edition of Bright Lights also features an article by Dan Callahan on noir icon Robert Ryan.
Lost Anthony Manne B-Noir to be Restored
Eddie Muller announced at Noir City 7 that The Film Noir Foundation together with the UCLA Film and Television Archive will restore Anthony Mann’s lost 1944 b-noir Strangers in the Night. When I read this I was thunderstruck - I have this movie recorded from somewhere and have never watched it! You now know which movie I have lined up next for viewing…
Noir City 7: Wicked as They Come Trailer
NOIR CITY 7, the 2009 San Francisco Film Noir Festival, kicks-off this Friday, January 23, at the Castro Theatre. On Saturday night at 7pm, special guest Arlene Dahl will introduce the pulp noirs Wicked as They Come (1956), and Slightly Scarlet (1956), in which she stars.
The Noir City program blurbs on these movies:
Wicked as They Come: Columbia, 94 min. Dir. Ken Hughes.“What she wanted out of life… she got out of men!” Arlene Dahl is a sizzling sensation as Kathleen Allen, a woman who learns early that sex is how she’ll get ahead in the world.
Slightly Scarlet: 1956, RKO, 99 min. Novel-James M. Cain, Dir. Allan Dwan. Arlene Dahl steals the show as sexy kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons (opposite titian-tressed “sister” Rhonda Fleming) in this eye-popping adaptation of Love’s Lovely Counterfeit. Camera virtuoso John Alton translates noir into lurid, saturated color. It’s 50’s paperback covers come to life!in which she stars.
A great trailer for Wicked as They Come is posted on YouTube:
Seattle International Film Festival French Noir Series
This French Crime Wave 1937-1981 series at the SIFF traces the history of French noir from 1937 to 1981. Full details here.
Friday, January 16—Rififi, 7 p.m. Pepe le Moko, 9:20
Saturday, January 17—Mississippi Mermaid, 2 & 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 18—Le Cercle Rouge, 2:15 & 7 p.m.
Monday, January 19—Garde a vue, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 20—Classe tous risques, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 21—Elevator to the Gallows, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 22—The Sicilian Clan, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 23—Bob le Flambeur, 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 24—Diabolique, 1 & 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 25—Coup de Torchon, 2, 4:30 & 7 p.m.
Monday, January 26—Pickpocket, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 27—The Champagne Murders, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 28—Riptide, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 29—La Piscine, 7:30 p.m.
January 30-February 5—Shoot the Piano Player, daily 7:30 p.m., Sat. & Sun., 2:15, 4, & 7:30 p.m.
Cornell Woolrich: Dreaming, then dying
Zac O’yeah has written an an interesting feature article on the life and work of noir novelist, Cornell Woolrich, for the Wall Street Journal.
More Film Noir at NY’s Dryden Theatre
New Yorkers can plunge into the murky waters of essential film noir every Thursday in January and February at the Dryden Theatre:
January 8 Murder, My Sweet
January 15 Ride the Pink Horse
January 22 Raw Deal | T-Men
January 29 Road House | The Hitch-Hiker
February 5 In A Lonely Place
February 12 Pitfall | Nightfall
February 19 Double Indemnity
February 26 The Lady from Shanghai
Deep Discount on Film Noir Classics Collection – Vol. 1 DVD Set
DeepDiscount.com is offering this 5 DVD set for half-price at US$24.95 – that’s a low 5 bucks for each movie!
The pack contains these classic films noir:
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
GUN CRAZY
MURDER, MY SWEET
OUT OF THE PAST
THE SET-UP
The full program for NOIR CITY 7, the 2009 San Francisco Film Noir Festival, to be held January 23–February 1, 2009, at the Castro Theatre, which this year will have a newspaper theme, is now available for download here.
Find out more at www.noircity.com.
A summary of the noirs to be screened is set out below. Of the 22 movies to be screened, 14 are not available on DVD, and are marked with an asterisk.
On Sunday, February 1 at 1:00mp and 7:00pm, Noir City will premiere a brand new 35mm restoration (including a remastered soundtrack) of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946).
Friday, January 23
*DEADLINE-U.S.A. 7:30 | *SCANDAL SHEET 9:30
Saturday, January 24
*BLIND SPOT 1:30 | *CHICAGO DEADLINE 3:00
PASSPORT HOLDERS RECEPTION FOR
ARLENE DAHL 6:00 – 7:00
Evening show with ARLENE DAHL IN PERSON!
*WICKED AS THEY COME 7:00 | SLIGHTLY SCARLET 9:30
Sunday, January 25
*CRY OF THE HUNTED 1:00, 5:00, 9:20 | ACE IN THE HOLE 2:45, 7:00
Monday, January 26
*ALIAS NICK BEAL 7:30 | *NIGHT EDITOR 9:30
Tuesday, January 27
THE HARDER THEY FALL 7:30 | *JOHNNY STOOL PIGEON 9:30
Wednesday, January 28
*WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS 7:30 | *SHAKEDOWN 9:30
Thursday, January 29
THE BIG CLOCK 7:30 | *STRANGE TRIANGLE 9:30
Friday, January 30
*THE UNSUSPECTED 7:30 | *DESPERATE 9:30
Saturday, January 31
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT 2:00, 7:30 | TWO O’CLOCK COURAGE 3:45, 9:20
Sunday, February 1
THE KILLERS 1:00, 7:00 | SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 3:15, 9:30
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