Upcoming Noir screenings / festivals
Los Angeles has http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...0,248569.story a Brit Noir series starting today:
It includes such classics as 'The Third Man' and 'The Fallen Idol' and lesser-known ones such as 'Brighton Rock' and 'It Always Rains on Sunday.'
That five-film Rialto Brit Noir series is coming to DC as well in March. I'm excited to get to see IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY.
Is Dark City coming to Chicago again this year? Found out about it too late last year to attend, but I remember at the time Eddie saying something about Chicago being an annual festival.
For Those In LA This Weekend
http://lostatsea.net/feature.phtml?f...24b6041112e4d7
ooops sorry, missed Steve's earlier festival thread.
Brighton Rock is a little treasure.
Last edited by Martin; 02-06-2010 at 05:09 PM.
NOIR CITY will most likely return to the Music Box in Chicago later this year. I'm going to be in Seattle February 19-25 hosting a slightly shorter version of the recent NOIR CITY festival in S.F., and our colleagues at the SIFF Cinema have plans to run me ragged (which is great), including several radio appearances, talks at area high schools and universities, a special "Dinner with the Czar," a "fireside chat" at the Sorrento Hotel -- and of course, the movies themselves.
The 11th (or is it the 12th) edition of NOIR CITY at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will run from April 2-18 -- with plenty of films NOT shown in San Francisco ... including the 35mm resurrection of one of the hardest to find titles in the entire noir canon. For some fans, this will be like the discovery of the Holy Grail. Very exciting.
Hope to see some of you at one of he other festival.
EM
Eddie,
Now that you've throw out the bait, any idea on when we'll know what the line up of films in LA will be? Also any thing you can pass along regarding the the Palm Springs Fest?
Thanks,
(your voluteer in waiting)
This is great news. I will definitely make plans to attend in Chicago once it becomes finalized.
As long as I'm stuck here in the Chicago area, it's great to hear that there will most likely be another NOIR CITY at the Music Box.
Although, as a provincial , it "saddens" me to hear that the dreaded Angelenos will get the first view of a 35mm resurrection when it rightly belongs at the Castro. At least SF has a pro football team :-)
The Seattle SIFF website is pretty slick.Originally Posted by Fast Eddie
Back east in Rochester NY they're having a nice Essential noir series at the Eastman House: http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/progr...-2010-edition/
Will do everything I can to make it to the LA noircity; can't wait to see what's gonna play.
The restorations debut at the Castro... this is a "resurrection." Meaning the print has been unearthed and returned to circulation, not created anew. Can't gloat about the football team ... The once mighty Niners were 8-8 and the Ain't are World Champs!
No matter what film it is, resurrection is the first step towards a restoration, or at least, one hopes. Wish I could be there to see it.
a pretty good festival going on in Nashville: http://www.belcourt.org/events?id=68254
Noir City Seattle begins tonight! In about an hour. I gotta go!
For a second straight year in May at the Roxie Theater in Frisco, a b-noir festival: I STILL WAKE UP DREAMING: NOIR IS DEAD! / LONG LIVE NOIR!
http://www.roxie.com/events/details....F56484EE76310B
Hart:
thanks for the update... San Fran does it again!
Fri, May 14 - Thur, May 27
TWO thrilling WEEKS of impossibly RARE B-Noirs from the notorious shadow factories of Hollywood’s Poverty Row!
It’s Springtime at the Roxie - where TWENTY-EIGHT half-forgotten film noir classics and curios will bloom boldly before your disbelieving eyes at San Francisco’s first and foremost House of Noir—The Roxie Theater! This Spring’s amazing cavalcade features six titles from Columbia’s legendary and darkly sinister 1940s WHISTLER mystery series starring Richard Dix: MARK OF THE WHISTLER (from a story by Cornell Woolrich!), MYSTERIOUS INTRUDER (a major noir rediscovery from director William Castle!!), POWER OF THE WHISTLER (with the incredible Janis Carter!!!) as well as VOICE OF THE WHISTLER, THE THIRTEENTH HOUR and SECRET OF THE WHISTLER. All six WHISTLER films presented in
BRAND NEW RESTORED 35mm STUDIO PRINTS!
Marvel too at six RARE United Artists noir gems from the 1950s: Jacques Tourneur’s cold-war thriller THE FEARMAKERS starring Dana Andrews; Phil Karlson’s gritty gem 99 RIVER STREET with John Payne and Evelyn Keyes; the freakishly strange NIGHTMARE with Kevin McCarthy and Edward G. Robinson (from a story by Woolrich); Ed McBain’s low-down, rough and sleazy COP HATER with Robert Loggia; SHIELD FOR MURDER directed by and starring noir icon Edmond O’Brien; and Henry Silva in the ultra-violent late-model ‘63 Rat Pack noir JOHNNY COOL. ALL PRESENTED IN 35mm STUDIO ARCHIVE PRINTS!
Peppered liberally with ultra-rare 16mm B noirs from the hidden vaults and libraries of private collectors!! NONE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON DVD!!
Programmed exclusively for The Roxie Theater by Professor Elliot Lavine
The TCM Film Festival has a few unique ones that will be of interest to film noir fans:
NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH
This one is coming out on DVD soon, but it'd be nice to see this on the big screen. Now if someone could dig up a nice high-res poster for this...
and the proto-noir
THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE
described as
Temple Drake is a great movie if you haven't seen it...a work in progress restoration by MOMA, funded in part by Turner Classic Movies.
I saw on Amazon that the DVD is now on sale but heard they weren't going to release it until sometime in June to get a better print.The TCM Film Festival has a few unique ones that will be of interest to film noir fans:
NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH
This one is coming out on DVD soon, but it'd be nice to see this on the big screen.
I think it actually has to do with a deal they have with some cross promotion with TCM... either way I'm looking forward to No Orchards sometime soon.
The Robert Osborne film festival in Athens GA starts today -- not to be confused with the LA-based TCM festival. I really like his lineup! I wonder if he'll introduce the movies with his trademark pregnant pause before each film?
"and now --from 1944 -- Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Billy Wilder's... Double Indemnity."
Thursday, Mar. 25
8:00 p.m. To Catch a Thief
Friday, Mar. 26
1:00 p.m. Double Indemnity
4:00 p.m. Stand by Me
8:00 p.m. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
midnight The Shining
Saturday, Mar. 27
10:00 a.m. Panel Discussion (FREE!)
1:00 p.m. All About Eve
4:00 p.m. Steamboat Bill, Jr. with live accompaniment by Kenosha Kid
8:00 p.m. The Godfather II
Sunday, Mar. 28
2:00 p.m. The Wizard of Oz
http://flagpole.com/Weekly/Features/...stival-23Mar10
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