January 17, 2009

WEEKEND BRIEF: "Deadline: Noir City"

Slightly Scarlet A quick tip for you Bay City rollers: Beginning next Friday, The Castro Theatre will be hosting the 7th Annual edition of the San Francisco Film Noir Festival (Jan. 23 – Feb. 1), and programmers Eddie Muller and Anita Monga have cooked up a nifty way to tie the twenty-something titles together:

"The theme of this year's festival is Newspaper Noir, with many of the films set in the world of newspapers, or, in some cases, publishing or radio. Come see how mid-20th-century media stack up against today's fourth estate."

Former MGM contract star Arlene Dahl (the Rheingold Beer Girl of 1946!) will grace the fest with a special appearance between screenings of two back-to-back films she made in 1956, Slightly Scarlet and Wicked as They Come. Of the films scheduled, 16 aren't even available on DVD, so you officially have no excuse not to go. Unless you don't live in SF, which I don't. Argh.

For tickets and schedule, visit www.noircity.com.



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Posted by ahillis at January 17, 2009 1:19 PM

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I'm excited. It's worth noting that most of the double-features programmed are, in the style of old, a pairing of a moderately-budgeted "A-picture" (like Ace in the Hole, for example) and a low-budget "B-movie" (Night Editor being one I can already recommend, as I saw it played the festival back when it was at the Balboa in 2006).

Posted by: Brian at January 18, 2009 1:39 AM

Very sad that I'm not going to be this year. Doing the opening of Noir City was a real treat with Blogger extraordinaire Michael Guillen. Good times.

Posted by: Kurt at January 18, 2009 6:02 PM

Every year I read these notices...and every year I curse by beloved East Coast for not fathering a Eddie Muller of it's own.

Posted by: Ju-osh at January 18, 2009 7:34 PM
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