American Cinematheque Film Noir Festival 2009
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:
- A Jane Greer double bill: the classic OUT OF THE PAST co-starring Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas, and the rare THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS
- Robert Siodmak’s rarely screened FLY-BY-NIGHT, Fritz Lang’s WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS
- An Anthony Mann double feature, the rare TWO O’CLOCK COURAGE and DESPERATE
- A Newspaper Noir double bill of DEADLINE U.S.A. and the ultra-rare CHICAGO DEADLINE, plus THE RACKET, THE ENFORCER, AND WALK SOFTLY STRANGER
- Joseph Losey’s rare CHANCE MEETING, NOCTURNE
- Rare and forgotten B Noirs SMOOTH AS SILK and ROSES ARE RED
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.
Hi! Tony,
Thanks, for all the “updated” information about…
The American Cinematheque Noir City Film Noir Festival 2009 which will run from April 2-19, 2009 at LA’s famous Egyptian Theatre.
I wasn’t aware of the “tribute” to actress Ann Savage. Let me go over there and “upgrade” the information in my newspaper before I go…
Once again!…Thanks, as usual…
Dcd
Comment by Dcd — March 18, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
The new print of ALIAS NICK BEAL, (which was recently sent to me by Dee Dee) the rarely-seen Siodmak, and the Greer double are surely highlights in yet another stellar California noir event!
And Eddie Muller again! What energy.
Comment by Sam Juliano — March 18, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
Hi! Sam Juliano,
I’am going to send you an email about the film Alias Nick Beal,… before I go…
Take Care!
DeeDee
Comment by DeeDee — March 18, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
Sam said,”And Eddie Muller again! What energy.”
Sam, that is why he is the “Czar of Film noir,” but of course!…Surely, I “jest” he’s more than just the “Czar of Film noir.” He is an author of many books first and foremost.”methinks” (A guest commentator,(on Dvds) a film maker in the making, world traveler, founder of the FNF…in other words, a real Renaissance man!) here I go again…
Take care!
DeeDee
Comment by DeeDee — March 18, 2009 @ 6:05 pm
Indeed Dee Dee. He (Muller) is one of a kind for sure!
Comment by Sam Juliano — March 18, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
Hey Tony,
Good to see The October Man included in the line-up at this festival, there are a great many noirs and noirish films from Britain and Europe that deserve our attention. For as much as I like classic American noir you can only watch them so many times before you have to move on. I’ve always wanted to see Alias Nick Beal, the whole notion of The Devil in a film noir has always been an enticement. Part of the reason why I think that Angel Heart, while not a masterpiece, is still a worthwhile and highly watchable hybrid of horror and noir. Alan Parker directed this fresh off Birdy, with Matt Modine and Nicholas Cage. Parker’s films are never less than interesting.
Comment by Guy Budziak — March 19, 2009 @ 1:44 am
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jul/03/news.culture3
The cinematic world was today celebrating the rediscovery of missing scenes from German director Fritz Lang’s legendary silent film Metropolis – thought lost for 80 years, until they were found in the archive of a museum in Argentina.
Key scenes cut from the science fiction picture – either because they were considered to be too brutal or too long – will now be available for the first time since May 1927, when the original version was last shown in Berlin, where it flopped badly.
The head of the Berlin film museum Deutsche Kinematik, Dr Rainer Rother, called the find a “sensational discovery”, adding that one of the most famous films of all time “can now be seen through new eyes”.
Noirs are often rediscovered like this one of Fritz Lang in such inadvertent ways of discovery such as the missing scenes in the Argentinian archives. By accident? We then see them through new eyes. Lang was an American by avocation escaping Nazi propaganda and Goebbels. He also veered out of Noir and made a film on the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, I believe, if I am not mistaken. In any event, I am a great admirer of him and his craft and am glad the Cinematheque includes While the City Sleeps.
Comment by Edward Yablonsky — March 19, 2009 @ 7:32 am
Thanks Guy and Edward for adding some great value to this thread.
Guy, I would like to review more British noirs, but over here they are very few available.
Edward, Eddie Muller was in Buenos Aires late 2008 to meet the archivists who made last summer’s announcement of the rediscovered footage from Lang’s Metropolis, and he came across a trove of Argentine films from the 1930s made by the great noir cinematographer John Alton!
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — March 19, 2009 @ 10:20 am
Indeed. I really enjoyed both contributions here by Guy and Edward.
Comment by Sam Juliano — March 20, 2009 @ 12:09 am