#NoirCity21 opens this Friday, Jan 19, 7:30 PM at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre with our newest restoration project NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR. Eddie Muller will be signing his books up in the mezzanine, 6pm-7pm. Tix: http://NoirCity.com
Restoration performed by UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19:
7:30
World Premiere FNF Restoration!
NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR | NO ABRAS NUNCA ESA PUERTA
Argentina, 1952. Estudios San Miguel. 85 minutes
Screenplay by Alejandro Casona, from two short stories by Cornell Woolrich (William Irish)
Produced and directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen
More noir films have been based on the stories of Cornell Woolrich than any other writer, and NOIR CITY is proud to present this brand-new restoration of one of the best of those adaptations. In “Someone’s on the Phone,” Ángel Magaña plays a man bent on avenging the death of his sister, driven to suicide by gambling debts. In “The Hummingbird Comes Home,” Roberto Escalada portrays a racketeer who brings the gang to his boyhood home to lay low after a robbery. His blind madre doesn’t approve. Originally a three-part anthology of Woolrich tales, Never Open That Door was released separately from the 73-minute If I Should Die Before I Wake, also adapted by Casona and Christensen. Benefitting from the incredible cinematography of Pablo Tabernero, this is one of the most evocative realizations of Woolrich ever produced, featuring masterful sequences of sustained suspense. Said Buenos Aires film critic Horacio Bernades, “Rarely has an Argentine film been more purely cinematic than this.”
CAST: Someone on the Phone: Ángel Magaña (Raúl), Renée Dumas (Luisa), Diana de Córdoba (Nelly), Nicolás Fregues (money lender), Pedro Fiorito, Orestes Soriani, Percival Murray, Rosa Martín , Arnoldo Chamot. The Hummingbird Comes Home: Roberto Escalada (Daniel), Ilde Pirovano (the mother), Norma Giménez (María), Luis Otero (Juan)
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STREET OF CHANCE
United States, 1942. Paramount [Universal]. 74 minutes
Screenplay by Garrett Fort, based on the novel The Black Curtain by Cornell Woolrich
Produced by Burt Kelly. Directed by Jack Hively
The first case of amnesia in the film noir era comes with a typically intriguing Woolrichian twist. Frank Thompson survives a near fatal accident only to have the shock partially restore his memory! He realizes he’s lived the past several years as someone other than his true self. With the help of his incredulous girlfriend Ruth, Frank embarks on a nocturnal quest to determine his true identity. This modest offering from the B-unit at Paramount benefits from some A-list contributors, principally stars Burgess Meredith and Claire Trevor, and director of photography Theodor Sparkuhl, whose contributions to the look of early ’40s noir have gone largely unheralded. A wonderful gallery of supporting characters skitter and sneak through Frank’s waking nightmare, well rendered by journeyman director Jack Hively who had previously helmed many entries in RKO’s mystery series The Saint.
CAST: Burgess Meredith (Frank Thompson), Claire Trevor (Ruth Dillon), Louise Platt (Virginia Thompson), Sheldon Leonard (Joe Marucci), Frieda Inescort (Alma Diedrich), Jerome Cowan (Bill Diedrich), Adeline deWalt Reynolds (Grandma Diedrich), Arthur Loft (Sheriff Stebbins), Clancy Cooper (Burke), Ann Doran (Miss Peabody), Paul Phillips
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Napoleonic birthday calendar
A quick first attempt at a combined calender; I hope I have not accidentally dropped somebody on the way [searches floor]. Whom or what else should we add? I’ve already taken the liberty to add Junot and Duroc.
And just for the record: All the work was done by @northernmariette, I’m just posting on her behalf due to technical problems.
January
3 Jan 1777: Elisa Bonaparte-Baciocchi
7 Jan 1768: Joseph Bonaparte
🎖 10 Jan 1769: Marshal Ney
🎖 26 Jan 1763: Marshal Bernadotte
February
🎖 13 Feb 1768: Marshal Mortier
March
🎖 2 Mar 1770: Marshal Suchet
🎖 13 Mar 1763: Marshal Brune
20 Mar 1822: Napoléon II,
25 Mar 1782: Caroline Bonaparte-Murat
🎖 25 Mar 1767: Marshal Murat
27 Mar 1746: Charles (Carlo) Bonaparte
🎖 29 Mar 1769: Marshal Soult
April
10 Apr 1783: Hortense de Beauharnais-Bonaparte
🎖 10 Apr 1769: Marshal Lannes
🎖 13 Apr 1764: Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr
🎖 25 Apr 1767: Marshal Oudinot
🎖 29 Apr 1762: Marshal Jourdan
May
🎖 6 May 1758: Marshal Masséna
🎖 7 May 1763: Marshal Poniatowsky
🎖 10 May 1770: Marshal Davout
21 May 1775: Lucien Bonaparte
🎖 28 May 1735: Marshal Kellerman
🎖 31 May 1754: Marshal Pérignon
June
23 June 1763: Joséphine Bonaparte
July
🎖 20 Jul 1774: Marshal Marmont
🎖 31 Jul 1754: Marshal Moncey
August
🎖 6 Aug 1768: Marshal Bessières
15 Aug 1769: Napoléon Bonaparte
24 Aug 1750: Laetitia Ramolino-Bonaparte
September
2 Sept 1778: Louis Bonaparte
3 Sept 1781: Eugène de Beauharnais
24 Sept 1771: Junot
October
20 Oct 1780: Pauline Bonaparte
🎖 21 Oct 1759: Marshal Augereau
🎖 23 Oct 1766: Marshal Grouchy
🎖 25 Oct 1755: Marshal Lefebvre
25 Oct 1772: Duroc
November
15 Nov 1784: Jérôme Bonaparte
🎖 17 Nov 1765: Marshal Macdonald
🎖 20 Nov 1753: Marshal Berthier
December
🎖 7 Dec 1764: Marshal Victor
🎖 8 Dec 1742: Marshal Serurier
12 Dec 1791: Marie-Louise Bonaparte
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