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.

Phantom Lady (1944)

Thanks to Dark City Dame and Jim Sinclair of Pacific Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street, Suite 200 Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2L7) for the updated 2008 program.

The 2008 series will feature 14 movies over three weeks:

Friday, August 8
7:30 pm  Double Indemnity
9:30 pm Pushover

Saturday, August 9
7:30 pm Murder My Sweet
9:20 pm Double Indemnity

Sunday, August 10
7:30 pm This Gun for Hire
9:05 pm Murder My Sweet

Monday, August 11
7:30 pm Pushover
9:15 pm Phantom Lady

Wednesday, August 13
7:30 pm The Glass Key
9:10 pm This Gun for Hire

Thursday, August 14
7:30 pm Phantom Lady
9:15 pm The Glass Key

Thursday, August 21
7:30 pm Laura
9:15 pm The Woman in the Window

Friday, August 22
7:15 pm The Postman Always Rings Twice
9:25 pm Night and the City

Saturday, August 23
7:30 pm The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
9:10 pm The Postman Always Rings Twice

Sunday, August 24
7:30 pm Night and the City
9:20 pm Laura

Monday, August 25
7:30 pm The Woman in the Window
9:25 pm The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Wednesday, August 27
7:30 pm Dead Reckoning
9:25 pm Dark Passage

Thursday, August 28
7:30 pm Dark Passage
9:30 pm Dead Reckoning

This year’s 5th Annual Noir Film Festival, which started Friday today at the Guild Cinema in Nob Hill, Albuquerque (3405 Central Ave NE  255-1848), features some rarely screened titles that should have local film noir fans very excited:

JUNE 20 & 21 (FRIDAY & SATURDAY):

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (3:00, 7:00)
Dir. Billy Wilder - 1944 - 107m

THE HIDDEN ROOM (a.k.a. OBSESSION) (5:10, 9:10)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk - 1949 - 96m - UK

JUNE 22 & 23 (SUNDAY & MONDAY):

REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT
The Original “Playhouse 90″ Live Television Version (3:30, 7:00)
Dir. Ralph Nelson - 1956 - 90m

99 RIVER STREET (5:15, 8:45)
Dir. Phil Karlson - 1953 - 86m

JUNE 24 & 25 (TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY):

REPEAT PERFORMANCE (5:15, 8:30)
Dir. Alfred L. Werker - 1947 - 91m

THE PRETENDER (7:00 ONLY)
Dir. W. Lee Wilder - 1947 - 69m

JUNE 26 & 27 (THURSDAY & FRIDAY):

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY (3:10, 7:00)
Dir. Felix E. Feist - 1951 - 90m

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (5:00, 8:45)
Dir. Phil Karlson - 1952 - 99m

JUNE 27 & 29 (SATURDAY & SUNDAY):

WIDMARK AND DASSIN
NIGHT AND THE CITY (2:30, 6:30)

ROAD HOUSE (4:30, 8:30)
Dir. Jean Negulesco - 1949 - 95m

JUNE 30 & JULY 1 (MONDAY & TUESDAY):

RARELY-SCREENED JOSEPH LOSEY
THE BIG NIGHT (5:30, 8:35)
Dir. Joseph Losey - 1951 - 75m

QUICKSAND (7:05 ONLY)
Dir. Irving Pichel - 1949 - 79m

JULY 2 & 3 (WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY):

CINEMATOGRAPHER JOHN ALTON IN TECHNICOLOR
SLIGHTLY SCARLET (5:00, 9:00)

JOSEPH LOSEY IN THE U.K.
THE CRIMINAL (7:00 ONLY)
Dir. Joseph Losey - 1960 - 97m - UK - Shown on digital video

JULY 4 & 5 (FRIDAY & SATURDAY):

CRY OF THE CITY (3:30, 7:05)
Dir. Robert Siodmak - 1948 - 95m

RARE SCREENING
CELL 2455, DEATH ROW (5:30, 9:05)
Dir. Fred F. Sears - 1955 - 77m

JULY 6 & 7 (SUNDAY & MONDAY):

RESTORED 35MM PRINT
THE BLACK BOOK (a.k.a. REIGN OF TERROR) (3:30, 7:00)
Dir. Anthony Mann - 1949 - 89m

STRANGE ON THE RANGE!
TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (5:20, 8:45)
Dir. Joseph H. Lewis - 1958 - 81m

JULY 8 & 9 (TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY):

THE CRIMSON KIMONO (5:20, 9:05)
Dir. Sam Fuller - 1959 - 81m

RICHARD WIDMARK
NO WAY OUT (7:00 ONLY)
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1950 - 106m

Full details here.

From Friday June 6 to July 2, the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago will present
Dark Corners: Film Noir from the Fox Archive. The movies are archival prints from the vaults of 20th Century Fox.

A strong program of ten great noirs:

THE DARK CORNER (1946)
Dir. Henry Hathaway 99 min.
Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens

Friday, June 13, 6:00 pm
Monday, June 16, 8:00 pm

FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
Dir. Otto Preminger 98 min.
Dana Andrews, Alice Faye

Saturday, June 28, 4:45 pm
Wednesday, July 2, 6:00 pm

KISS OF DEATH (1947)
Dir. Henry Hathaway 98 min.
Victor Mature, Richard Widmark

Saturday, June 21, 3:00 pm
Monday, June 23, 7:45 pm

LAURA (1944)
Dir. Otto Preminger 88 min.
Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney

Friday, June 27, 6:00 pm
Saturday, June 28, 3:00 pm

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
Dir Edmund Goulding 111 min.
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell

Friday, June 6, 6:00 pm
Monday, June 9, 8:00 pm

NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)
Dir. Jules Dassin 101 min.
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney

Saturday, June 14, 3:00 pm
Wednesday, June 18, 8:00 pm

PANIC IN THE STREETS (1950)
Dir. Elia Kazan 93 min.
Richard Widmark, Jack Palance

Saturday, June 7, 4:45 pm
Thursday, June 12, 6:00 pm

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)
Dir. Samuel Fuller 80 min.
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters

Saturday, June 7, 3:00 pm
Wednesday, June 11, 8:00 pm

ROAD HOUSE (1948)
Dir. Jean Negulesco 95 min.
Ida Lupino, Richard Widmark

Friday, June 20, 6:00 pm
Saturday, June 21, 5:00 pm

THIEVES’ HIGHWAY (1949)
Dir. Jules Dassin 94 min.
Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese

Saturday, June 14, 5:30 pm
Thursday, June 19, 6:00 pm

Full details