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  • NOIR CITY celebrates its 10th anniversary with a 10-day San Francisco program at the Castro Theatre starting January 29, 2012 celebrating Frisco noir, including a brand new 35mm print of The Great Gatsby (1949), starring Alan Ladd, which has been buried for decades. Noir maestro Eddie Muller has persuaded Universal Pictures to strike a preservation print for NOIR CITY.

    Noir City X: San Francisco Jan 20-29

    Posted on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
    NOIR CITY celebrates its 10th anniversary with a 10-day San Francisco program at the Castro Theatre starting January 29, 2012 celebrating Frisco noir, including a brand new 35mm print of The Great Gatsby (1949), starring Alan Ladd, which has been buried for decades. Noir maestro Eddie Muller has persuaded Universal Pictures to strike a preservation print for NOIR CITY.

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  • UK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm...

    Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art

    Posted on July 24, 2011 | 12 Comments
    UK film writer Philip French in the Observer in 2009 related that Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) “was the favourite film of Jean-Pierre Melville, who saw it 120 times before directing his noir masterwork Le deuxième soufflé [1966]”. I can share this enthusiasm...

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  • Thirty years ago in my late 20s on many lonely cold winter nights I walked the desolate streets of the city fringe... down narrow sparsely-lit alleys

    Cities Have Lost Their Poetry

    Posted on June 26, 2011 | 3 Comments
    Thirty years ago in my late 20s on many lonely cold winter nights I walked the desolate streets of the city fringe... down narrow sparsely-lit alleys

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