NOIR CITY Boston returns to its home at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge MA, June 14-16. More details to come!
NOIR CITY: Boston: Jun 14-16
The Brattle, Cambridge, MA
NOIR CITY: Portland: Jul 19-21
Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
NOIR CITY: Chicago: Sep 6-12
Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL
NOIR CITY: Detroit: Sep 20-22
Redford Theatre, Detroit, MI
NOIR CITY: D.C.: Oct 11-24
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
NOIR CITY: Philadelphia: Nov 15-17
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville, PA
*Other U.S. cities will be added as festival dates are confirmed.
The Turner Classic Movie Film Festival returns to Hollywood, April 18-21. The newly restored Egyptian Theatre will once again serve as a location for screenings, including two nitrate presentations, along with the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX, and the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres Multiplex. As usual, the festival will be headquartered at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. This year’s programming centers around killers and crooks and those who bring them to justice--police, G-Men and amateur sleuths--and conversely the wrongfully accused and pursued. Several notable film noirs will screen, Raoul Walsh’s White Heat; a nitrate screening of A Night Has a Thousand Eyes, introduced by FNF board member Alan K. Rode; The Big Heat with Dana Delaney in attendance, Phil Karlson’s The Phenix City Story introduced by FNF advisory board member and author Foster Hirsch; Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity; Roman Polanski’s Chinatown with Carl Franklin in attendance; and John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle.
Crime aficionados will not want to miss Richard Brooks In Cold Blood, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991) with star Jodie Foster in attendance, Seven (1995) with director David Fincher in attendance, Queen of the Mob, and The Mad Miss Manton starring Barbara Stanwyck. There will also be screenings of the Alfred Hitchcock films Rear Window and North by Northwest as well as the 1970’s classics Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry and Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon.
If you like British humour in your crime films, don’t miss and the first Miss Marple film with Margaret Rutherford, Murder, She Said and Ealing Studios’ The Lavendar Hill Mob. For Silent film lovers who like crime movies, they’ll be presenting Paths to Paradise with special guests Leonard Maltin and accompanied by Ben Model; and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. accompanied by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
FNF prez and TCM host Eddie Muller will be introducing multiple films, we will share which ones once his schedule is confirmed.
In terms of film noir, this is the biggest year yet for TCMFF, so be sure to follow us on our social media accounts for our daily coverage of the festival.
Passes, schedule, and other festival information, including how to get tickets for individual screenings, are available on the TCMFF website.
At NOIR CITY 21 festival in Oakland, the Film Noir Foundation announced the recipient of 2024’s FNF-Nancy Mysel Legacy Grant — Lucas Cullen from the Selznick School in Rochester, New York. Lucas was gracious enough to supply us with an on-screen acceptance/thank-you video the audience could enjoy.
Lucas Cullen is an archivist, artist, film programmer, and writer who grew up living next to a limestone quarry in the Welsh Mountains of Pennsylvania with his twin brother, Derrick. He received a B.S. in Film, Video, & Theatre and a minor in English Language & Literature from Maryland’s Stevenson University and is currently a student in the Certificate Program at The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.
Lucas previously served as a year-round Assistant Manager at The SNF Parkway/Maryland Film Festival, a Programming Associate for the virtual editions of MdFF 2020 and 2021, and a clerk at Beyond Video — Baltimore’s non-profit, all-volunteer-run video library. He is a member of the Irish Arts Center.
You can read more about how the grant was originally established on the FNF Grant page. There is also an exciting essay from UCLA’s Gabrielle Norte describing her 2023 activities and what she was able to accomplish as last year’s grant recipient.
We are proud to announce the release of two FNF restorations as Blu‑ray/DVD combos from Flicker Alley: The Bitter Stems and The Beast Must Die, two classics of Argentine noir.. → READ MORE
The FNF's restoration of Repeat Performance (1947) has been released in a beautiful Blu‑ray/DVD combo set that includes extensive special features. Order your copy now from Flicker Alley. + READ MORE
The FNF funded restorations of two 1947 film noirs, The Guilty and High Tide are now available for pre-order in a beautiful Blu‑ray/DVD combo set that includes extensive special features from Flicker Alley. + READ MORE
Did you know that The Film Noir Foundation livestreams every two weeks on our Facebook page in which Eddie Muller answers questions submitted by our e‑mail subscribers? All previous broadcasts are available on our YouTube broadcast archives page.
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The latest ASK EDDIE broadcast was released on Facebook April 11 and on YouTube the following day.
The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns to the Palm Springs Cultural Center, May 9-12, hosted and programmed by FNF board member Alan K. Rode. The festival will open Thursday, May 9, with Robert Rossen’s Body and Soul, starring John Garfield and photographed by legendary cinematographer by James Wong Howe. Alan will be joined by special guest actor/writer Jim Beaver. An opening night reception will follow for all access pass holders and special guests.
Friday’s four film line-up includes a screening of Anthony Mann’s surprisingly brutal Border Incident starring Ricardo Montalban. The screening’s special guest will be author Luis Reyes, Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film. Roy William Neill’s The Scarlet Claw will also play along with the Cornell Woolrich adaptation, No Man of her Own, starring Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Mitchell Leisen, and NOIR CITY Oakland favorite Across the Bridge featuring a tour-de-force performance by Rod Steiger.
Saturday’s quadruple line-up includes a screening of Andre de Toth’s Western noir Day of the Outlaw with special guest actor/producer/director Mike McGreevey. Also playing that day are De Toth’s Crime Wave; Dead Reckoning with Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott; and Woman in Hiding with Ida Lupino, Howard Duff and Stephen McNally. Sunday finishes with three films comprising a screening of Escape in the Fog with special guest, Emmy Award winning screenwriter/produc er Kirk Ellis as well as The Enforcer with Bogart as a crusading D.A. and Alfred Hitchcock’s personal favorite of his own films Shadow of a Doubt featuring a career best performance by Joseph Cotton.
Schedule, all access passes and tickets are available here.
Preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and now beautifully restored through the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) is a significant example of the cross-cultural cinematic legacy shared by the United States and Argentina during the post-WWII era. Based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction Cornell Woolrich, the film is brilliantly directed by Argentine filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen with extraordinary cinematography by Pablo Tabernero. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY
Says FNF founder Eddie Muller about this recent restoration, “It is a revelation to experience the work of an all-American author, in Spanish, and rendered as well – or perhaps better – than any Hollywood adaptation of his work.”
Originally a three-part anthology of Woolrich tales, Never Open That Door was released separately from the 73-minute film If I Should Die Before I Wake (Si muero antes de despertar) adapted by screenwriter Alejandro Casona and Christensen. An exceedingly rare archival conservation scan of If I Should Die Before I Wake is featured in this publication.
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDE:
✽ Introduction by author, film historian, and "noirchaeologist" Eddie Muller
✽ Audio commentary by author and film historian Guido Segal
✽ New documentary on Cornell Woolrich
✽ Newly recorded conversation - with Argentina's leading film archivist and cinema historian Fernando Martín Peña
FNF prez Eddie Muller's newest book, NOIR BAR: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir combines two of his greatest passions, film noir and cocktails.
In the words of the author, "Noir Bar offers a booze-based excursion through America's most popular film genre, pairing easy-to-master recipes with the kind of behind-the-scenes anecdotes that I like to include in my film intros and books." Some of the drinks are the ones being imbibed on screen and some are named after the films, the characters or the actors themselves. The recipes came from a variety of sources including Ernest Hemmingway and Sam Fuller. Some were even created by Eddie himself. Eddie also draws on his past as a bartender to coach you on the supplies and the techniques you will need to create these libations in your own home. The book is stylishly laid out and filled with movie stills, poster art, behind-the-scenes images, and cocktail photography. The book is available from Running Press.
The revised and expanded edition of FNF prez and Noir Alley host Eddie Muller's Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir is now available for purchase from the TCM Shop or your favorite bookseller. + READ MORE
Argentine director Román Viñoly Barreto's El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is available from Flicker Alley in a deluxe Blu‑ray/DVD edition. A virtually unknown remake of Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriller M, this 1953 Argentine noir is a female-centered take on the tale. + READ MORE
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