San Francisco’s NOIR CITY festival returns to the majestic Castro Theatre for ten days, January 22–31, 2010. The theme for this eighth incarnation of the world’s most popular noir film series is part and parcel of classic noir: “Lust and Larceny.”
Within that theme, NOIR CITY 8 will include double features showcasing the work of screenwriter Bill Bowers, directors Robert Siodmak and Robert Parrish, actors John Garfield, Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, and skating star Belita.
More guest stars are expected when NOIR CITY 8 presents the first public screening of the Film Noir Foundation’s latest preservation project, a completely restored version of the fabulous 1951 noir Cry Danger, starring Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, and Dick Erdman.
Other Highlights include Sony Home Entertainment’s co-presentation of “Bad Girls Night” to celebrate its upcoming DVD box set Bad Girls of Film Noir. Grover Crisp, Sony’s Vice President of Asset Management and Film Restoration, will attend—along with a bevy of bad girls. So many fans turn out for the bad girl movies that we’ve decided to make it a regular part of the annual program.
The festival’s always popular "San Francisco Night" returns with two fresh entries: Red Light (1949) and Walk a Crooked Mile (1948), both set in the city by the Bay—as is Escape in the Fog, a rare Budd Boetticher-directed B film playing on the festival’s final day.
The Film Noir Foundation can now be found on both Facebook and Myspace.
If you haven't signed up, maybe you should. Maybe you'll meet someone who will betray you and leave you for dead on the internet. At the least, you'll have access to a vast repository of noir posters and photos.
Due to an unexpected development beyond everyone’s control, Harry Belafonte cannot appear at this year’s NOIR CITY festival. Mr. Belafonte sends his deepest regrets and fondest regards to the film fans of San Francisco, with whom he was so eager to have shared this special 50th anniversary screening of Odds Against Tomorrow. We hope to have the legendary Mr. B in NOIR CITY soon!
Keep up with all the latest on film noir restoration, DVD releases, film festival programs, and insider info on classic and contemporary noir in the Noir City Sentinel, available only to those who:
The FNF’s Eddie Muller announced that the Foundation will join forces with Back Alley Noir to bring film noir devotees the very latest news. When FNF webpage readers have a question for the Foundation or want to post their own noir news, they can do so via BAN’s discussion board which will also serve as the official discussion board for the FNF.
