Source: The Albuquerque Tribune, Friday, June 15, 2007
This year’s Fourth Annual Noir Film Festival commencing today at the Guild Cinema in Nob Hill, Albuquerque, features some obscure B titles. The full program is set out at the end of this post.
Nine of the 20 movies are from private collections, including:
Breakdown (1952) A morality tale with a mostly no-name cast – “a flawed but really good melodrama” says Festival organizer and co-owner of the Guild, Peter Conheim.
Screaming Mimi (1958) starring a naughty Anita Ekberg and the exotic Gypsy Rose Lee.
“Is it noir? Is it horror? Is it a slasher movie?” Conheim asks. “Is it a campy stripper movie? Who knows? It’s really in outer space. It’s perverse.” Other movies like Caught and Hoodlum are even racier, especially for their time, with irredeemable characters and taboo topics – the very definition of noir.”Some of them really step out of the ring and take on the censors”, Conheim said.
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Made a year after Army of Shadows, which will run at the Guild a week after the noir run, and has just been released on DVD – see this filmsnoir.net post.
House of Strangers (1949 )from Joseph Mankiewicz.
The Brothers Rico (1957)
The 4th Annual Festival of Film Noir Program – June 17 through July 5 2007
June 17-18: Thieves’ Highway (2:30, 6:20) / House Of Strangers (4:25, 8:15)
June 19-20: B-Movie Triple Feature: Canon City (3:35, 7:45) / The Hoodlum (5:15, 9:20) / Under Age (6:30)
June 21-23: Murder, My Sweet (2:30, 6:30) / Out Of The Past (4:30, 8:30)
June 24-25: My Name Is Julia Ross (4:10, 7:00) / Cause For Alarm! (5:30, 8:20)
June 26-27: The Killing (4:45, 8:00) / Breakdown (6:30)
June 28-29: Pickup On South Street (5:00, 8:20) / T-Men (6:35)
June 29 -30: Special Late-Night Screening: Screaming Mimi (10:00 – Separate Admission)
June 30-July 1: Le Cercle Rouge (3:20, 7:30) / Plunder Road (6:00)
July 2-3: Caught (4:45, 8:00) / The Reckless Moment (6:30)
July 4-5: The Brothers Rico (3:10, 6:45) / The Garment Jungle (5:00, 8:35)
June 17-18: Thieves’ Highway (2:30, 6:20) / House Of Strangers (4:25, 8:15)
June 19-20: B-Movie Triple Feature: Canon City (3:35, 7:45) / The Hoodlum (5:15, 9:20) / Under Age (6:30)
June 21-23: Murder, My Sweet (2:30, 6:30) / Out Of The Past (4:30, 8:30)
June 24-25: My Name Is Julia Ross (4:10, 7:00) / Cause For Alarm! (5:30, 8:20)
June 26-27: The Killing (4:45, 8:00) / Breakdown (6:30)
June 28-29: Pickup On South Street (5:00, 8:20) / T-Men (6:35)
June 29 -30: Special Late-Night Screening: Screaming Mimi (10:00 – Separate Admission)
June 30-July 1: Le Cercle Rouge (3:20, 7:30) / Plunder Road (6:00)
July 2-3: Caught (4:45, 8:00) / The Reckless Moment (6:30)
July 4-5: The Brothers Rico (3:10, 6:45) / The Garment Jungle (5:00, 8:35)
