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filmnoirfoundation · 4 months

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NOIR CITY 21

Celebrating its 21st year, NOIR CITY, the largest annual film noir festival in the world, returns to Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre, January 19-28, 2024. FNF president Eddie Muller will present a dozen double bills pairing an English language noir with a similarly themed foreign language film—24 films over 10 days. Whatever the country of origin, there are heists, prison breaks, missing persons, cultural alienation, love triangles, and lots of plain old-fashioned murder.

Muller says this edition "has been tailored to satisfy those folks who love noir filled with the colorful vernacular slang so essential to American and British noir—as well as adventurous viewers intrigued by seeing a familiar story—typically a crime committed for passion or profit—play out in cultures with different values, mores, and styles." Through his programming of NOIR CITY festivals around the nation and his hosting of the popular Noir Alley franchise on Turner Classic Movies, Muller aims to move audiences past the idea that film noir is a strictly American genre.

Joining him this year, as co-programmer and co-host, is acclaimed film scholar Imogen Sara Smith, a familiar commentator on The Criterion Channel streaming service. "Attending NOIR CITY in the Bay Area has been a highlight of my year for over a decade," says Smith, "and I'm thrilled to be joining Eddie as co-host this year. I'm especially excited that the program we've put together will introduce audiences to some rare international titles, alongside Hollywood classics. It's going to be a stellar festival."

Kicking off the collection of rarities is the FNF's most recent restoration — 1952's Argentine film Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) — based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction, Cornell Woolrich. The picture was preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and has now been completely restored by the FNF through UCLA Film & Television Archive, thanks in part to a grant from the Golden Globe Foundation (formerly HFPA). Fernando Martín Peña, Argentina's pre-eminent cinephile, will be on hand to introduce the film with Eddie Muller.

Included on the 2024 schedule are English-language rarities such as Black Tuesday (1954), Plunder Road (1957), Across the Bridge (1957), and Strongroom (1962). Little-seen international titles include The Human Beast (France, 1938), Aimless Bullet (South Korea, 1960), Bitter Rice (Italy, 1949), Four Against the World (Mexico, 1950), Zero Focus (Japan, 1961), and Smog (1962), a forgotten surrealist masterpiece by Italian director Franco Rossi freshly restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Explore the full line up, buy tickets for individual double features and Passports (All-Access Passes) at the festival website.

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madcat-world · 2 years

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Noir City - Eddie Mendoza

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bluestockingbaby · 8 months

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I got to meet Eddie Muller! The lines were very long and it was packed so we didn’t talk much, but he was very nice and an amazing host! He really made this event special! I was also one of the newbies blessed by Eddie for not having seen Road House yet— which I saw for the first time (on film!) and I’m so glad I did.

#my posts #noir city #eddie muller #I hate how I look when I don’t take the pic but it’s ok #and yes my arms are sore from lugging this massive hardback around but so worth it #now all I need is a coffee table

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kamrinortiznumberonefan · 2 months

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Kamrin Ortiz in Nick Rossi's Swing Four, at Noir City Film Festival

#kamrin ortiz #film noir #noir city #san francisco #music #jazz #jazz music #saxophone #photography

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neon-wonderlands · 19 days

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Tokyo 1980s

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doctorslippery · 8 months

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#cthulhu #the king in yellow #yog sothoth #lovecraft #cosmic horror #elder gods #great old ones #many tentacled wonder #tentacles #dead astronaut #horror #dead #zombie #kaiju #giant monsters eating the city #noir

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tokyostreetphoto · 9 months

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Pink Lamp, Shinjuku 新宿

#日本 #東京 #新宿 #japan #tokyo #shinjuku #photography #photo #city #night #neo-tokyo #neo-noir #urban organics #urban #metropolis #Nikon Z9

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semioticapocalypse · 2 months

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André Kertész. Meudon. 1928

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allura-raine · 1 year

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saturdayboy · 2 years

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Never stops being a thrill having something picked for the Noir City annual (available August 2022), and it’s an even bigger thrill when that something happens to be my interview with Mike Hodges, in which we discuss not only The Big Four, but also his exemplary early TV work and later novels.

#noir city #film noir foundation #mike hodges #get carter #pulp #croupier #I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

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sandboxworld · 2 years

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William Holden out of the shadows in Noir City

I am a big fan of NOIR CITY Magazine. The magazine is dedicated to film noir. The latest issue focuses on matinee idol William Holden. You can buy your issue directly from Amazon. The latest issue of NOIR CITY is a beauty! However you look at it, the magazine is spectacular, featuring the electrifying combination of insightful writing and inspired graphic design we proudly consider our standard.…

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#Eddie Muller #film noir #Film Noir Foundation #Noir City #William Holden

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filmnoirfoundation · 25 days

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NOIR CITY Hollywood photos, courtesy of our friend Doug Grieve. Don't miss our closing night presentation of the 4K restoration of LE SAMOURAÏ, 7:30 PM tonight at the American Cinematheque. Introduction by Eddie Muller.

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#noir city #noir city hollywood #film noir #film noir festival #le samouraï #eddie muller #alan k rode

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hellostarrynightblr · 1 year

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