Join host Eddie Muller on Wednesday, December 20, 7:30 pm, at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre for NOIR CITY XMAS! To darken your yuletide spirit, the Film Noir Foundation is presenting – in 35mm – Cover Up, a 1949 noir film recently restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive, starring William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, and Barbara Britton.
The evening will also feature the unveiling of the program (and poster!) for NOIR CITY 21, the 21st year of the world's most popular film noir festival, coming to the Grand Lake Theatre January 19-28, 2024.
Additionally, between 6:30–7:15 there will be a book signing by Eddie Muller of his three latest – Kid Noir: Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey, Eddie Muller's NOIR BAR: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir, and Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. These titles will be available for sale at NOIR CITY Xmas through Walden Pond Books – which will be located next to the FNF merchandise table on the Grand Lake Theatre mezzanine.
NOTE: Eddie will also be available for 30 minutes after the show to sign books for those who missed him during the 6:30 signing.
Tickets are now available online for $15 from Eventbrite, and can also be purchased at the theatre box office on the day of the show. Doors will open at 6:30 pm on the day of the event.
The world's most popular film noir festival, NOIR CITY, returns to Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre January 19-28, 2024, for its 21st year. Festival devotees will enjoy 10 dark days of noir-themed double features as they were meant to be seen -- on the big screen in a historic movie palace. Hosted by FNF founder and TCM host Eddie Muller, this year's program of double features pairs one English-language noir with one similarly themed international noir. The complete schedule of 24 films will be announced the night of NOIR CITY Xmas, December 20, 2023, at the Grand Lake Theatre event and at NoirCity.com.
Secure your spot for all the darkness with a NOIR CITY 21 PASSPORT for $200. This all-access festival pass grants the bearer the following:
✽ Entry to all 24 films (12 double features) during the 10-day NOIR CITY 21 festival
✽ Separate passport holders' queue for early admittance to the theater for all shows
✽ $40 savings over individually purchased double feature tickets
Proceeds from the NOIR CITY 21 festival will help fund the FNF's restoration and preservation efforts year-round. Remember — the NOIR CITY Passport makes a perfect holiday gift for the film lover in your life, too!
Argentine director Román Viñoly Barreto's El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is available from Flicker Alley in a deluxe Blu‑ray/DVD edition. A virtually unknown remake of Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriller M, this 1953 Argentine noir is a female-centered take on the tale. + READ MORE
The FNF funded restorations of two 1947 film noirs, The Guilty and High Tide are now available for pre-order in a beautiful Blu‑ray/DVD combo set that includes extensive special features from Flicker Alley. + READ MORE
The FNF's restoration of Repeat Performance (1947) has been released in a beautiful Blu‑ray/DVD combo set that includes extensive special features. Order your copy now from Flicker Alley. + READ MORE
We are proud to announce the release of two FNF restorations as Blu‑ray/DVD combos from Flicker Alley: The Bitter Stems and The Beast Must Die, two classics of Argentine noir.. → READ MORE
Did you know that The Film Noir Foundation livestreams every two weeks on our Facebook page in which Eddie Muller answers questions submitted by our e‑mail subscribers? All previous broadcasts are available on our YouTube broadcast archives page.
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The next ASK EDDIE broadcast will release on Facebook November 31 and YouTube the following day.
Midcentury Production's THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT returns to San Francisco's Roxie Theatre, Sunday, November 26-Monday, November 27 and Sunday, December 3- Monday, December 4.
The six November screenings include three films starring the inimitable Simone Signoret. On Sunday night, Raymond Rouleau's Les sorcières de salem, a 1957 adaptation of Arthur Miller's Salem witch trial play The Crucible screens. First up on Monday night, Signoret plays a streetwalker who falls in love, enraging her pimp in Dédée d'Anvers (1948). In Maurice Tourneur's Impasse des deux anges two former lovers (Signoret and Paul Meurisse) meet under embarrassing circumstances, he's there to steal the expensive necklace gifted to her by her fiancé.
The seven December screenings include more icons of the French cinema. Jean Gabin flees France after killing in a man in Julien Duvivier's La bandera. He joins the Spanish Foreign Legion, and a dogged detective on his trail enlists as well. In Retour de Manivelle (1956) Michèle Morgan plays a scheming wife stages her husband's suicide to look like a murder to collect on his insurance policy and pin the "crime" on her lover.
On Monday, December 4, Lino Ventura chases the witness to his revenge murder through the streets of nighttime Paris in Un témoin dans la ville—followed by Le septieme jure (1962) with Bernard Blier. Prior to the Témoin screening, Don Malcolm will be signing copies of his "artbook autobiography" Instagrammology.
Tickets are available on the Roxie's website.
FNF prez Eddie Muller's newest book, NOIR BAR: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir combines two of his greatest passions, film noir and cocktails. In the words of the author, "Noir Bar offers a booze-based excursion through America's most popular film genre, pairing easy-to-master recipes with the kind of behind-the-scenes anecdotes that I like to include in my film intros and books." Some of the drinks are the ones being imbibed on screen and some are named after the films, the characters or the actors themselves. The recipes came from a variety of sources including Ernest Hemmingway and Sam Fuller. Some were even created by Eddie himself. Eddie also draws on his past as a bartender to coach you on the supplies and the techniques you will need to create these libations in your own home. The book is stylishly laid out and filled with movie stills, poster art, behind-the-scenes images, and cocktail photography. The book is available from Running Press.
FNF prez Eddie Muller's newest book, NOIR BAR: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir combines two of his greatest passions, film noir and cocktails. In the words of the author, "Noir Bar offers a booze-based excursion through America's most popular film genre, pairing easy-to-master recipes with the kind of behind-the-scenes anecdotes that I like to include in my film intros and books." Some of the drinks are the ones being imbibed on screen and some are named after the films, the characters or the actors themselves. The recipes came from a variety of sources including Ernest Hemmingway and Sam Fuller. Some were even created by Eddie himself. Eddie also draws on his past as a bartender to coach you on the supplies and the techniques you will need to create these libations in your own home. The book is stylishly laid out and filled with movie stills, poster art, behind-the-scenes images, and cocktail photography. The book is available from Running Press.
The revised and expanded edition of FNF prez and Noir Alley host Eddie Muller's Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir is now available for purchase from the TCM Shop or your favorite bookseller. + READ MORE
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