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FNF co-host Alan K. Rode and producer Mark Fleischer introduce The Narrow Margin (1952) at the 2024 NOIR CITY: Hollywood festival at the restored Egyptian Theatre. Fleischer, son of the picture's director Richard Fleischer, reminisced about his accomplished father and grandfather (famed animator Max Fleischer) while discussing the initial film programmed at the Egyptian's First Annual Festival of Film Noir in 1999 as NOIR CITY: Hollywood celebrated its 25th anniversary. (24 mins)
FNF co-host and co-programmer Alan K. Rode introduces a screening of Black Tuesday (1954) with Francesca Robinson, granddaughter of legendary actor and star of Black Tuesday Edward G. Robinson. The conversation took place at the newly refurbished Egyptian Theatre on March 27 as part of the 2024 NOIR CITY: Hollywood festival. (16 mins)
Co-host and co-programmer Alan K. Rode introduces a screening of Brute Force (1947) with Ron Goldman, the nephew of director Jules Dassin, at the 2024 NOIR CITY: Hollywood festival at the Egyptian Theatre. Mr. Goldman, a distinguished trial attorney, spoke with thoughtful insight highlighted by revealing anecdotes about his uncle’s character and how Dassin’s blacklisting devastated their entire family. (16 mins)
Film Noir Foundation director Alan K. Rode moderated a lively introduction to Cry of the City (1948) at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica with special guests Victoria Mature (daughter of Victor Mature) and 92 year old actor Tommy Cook who appeared in the film. The screening was part of the ten day NOIR CITY HOLLYWOOD film festival that celebrated its 24th year in 2023. (20 mins)
Producer-host Alan K. Rode converses with actor-producer David Ladd following the screening of This Gun for Hire (1942) at the 2023 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. The son of legendary movie star Alan Ladd, David discusses the film's meteoric effect on his father's career and the transition as a contact movie star with Paramount to producing his own films at Warner Bros. along with the Ladd's family's long tenure in Palm Springs. (20 mins)
A rare screening of The Shanghai Gesture (1941) at the 2023 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival at the Palm Springs Cultural Center was followed by a discussion moderated by festival host Alan K. Rode with Nicholas von Sternberg, son of director Josef von Sternberg and Victoria Mature, daughter of the films star Victor Mature. (25 mins)
NOIR CITY: Hollywood, Opening Night, April 15, 2022. The Film Noir Foundation's tribute to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Yoram Kahana (1939 - 2021), the foundation's greatest champion of film preservation.
Read Yoram Kahana - Remembering Our Champion by Eddie Muller
America's greatest living playwright, David Mamet, is interviewed by Eddie Muller at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica upon being named a Modern Noir Master by the Film Noir Foundation. He discusses the noir influence in his work and his career as a writer and director of noir-stained movies. Recorded March 9, 2020.(31 mins)
For the screening of Touch of Evil (1958) at the 2022 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, host-producer Alan K. Rode tapped long time Hollywood assistant director and friend Lou Race to share his recollections about working with Orson Welles on The Other Side of the Wind. Race shared his first hand observations of Welles's working methods and interactions with several luminaries including John Huston and Edmond O'Brien. (20 mins)
Operatic vocalist Victoria Mature, daughter of actor Victor Mature, delivers a scintillating introduction to I Wake Up Screaming (1941) starring her father and Betty Grable at the 2022 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. Ms. Mature also performed her one woman cabaret show "Victoria and Victor-An Evening of Memories and Music" at the Palm Springs Cultural Center to open the festival at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. (13 mins)
Producer and host Alan K. Rode opened the 22nd annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival by introducing They Live by Night (1948) with special guest Leonard Maltin. The legendary critic and film historian discusses his latest book Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood along with remembrances of his youthful obsession with movies, an amusing encounter with Robert Mitchum, and other priceless recollections. (23 mins)
Host and producer Alan K. Rode and vocalist Victoria Mature, daughter of lengendary actor Victor Mature, introduce The Long Haul (1957) at the 2021 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, CA. The Long Haul stars Victoria's father and Diana Dors. (12.5 min)
After a screening of Violent Saturday (1955) at the 2021 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, Producer Mark Fleischer praised an enthused Palm Springs audience and spoke with host Alan K. Rode about the legacies of his father, director Richard Fleischer and grandfather, pioneer animator Max Fleischer. (1 part)
After a screening of The Big Sleep (1946) at the 2020 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, noted author and producer Steven C. Smith discussed his best selling biography Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer with festival host-producer Alan K. Rode. (1 part)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and special guest Susan Andrews opened the 21st annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival on October 21, 2021. After the film, Andrews conversed with festival host and producer Alan K. Rode concerning her impressions of the film, growing up in Hollywood as the daughter of star actor Dana Andrews and her father's legacy as one of Hollywood's seminal leading actors. (1 part)
The twentieth anniversary of The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival on May 9, 2019 began with a screening of The Night of the Hunter (1955). Following the film, festival host and producer Alan K. Rode conducted an on-stage discussion with actress Kathy Garver who appeared in the film. Garver also shared her recollections about her work, The Ten Commandments, and the long-running Family Affair television series. (1 part)
Alan K. Rode discusses the life and legacy of Dashiell Hammett with his granddaughter, the noted Hammett scholar Julie Rivett, following a screening of The Glass Key (1942) at the 2019 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. (2 parts)
After a screening of All My Sons (1948) at the 2019 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, host Alan K. Rode conversed on stage with Joanna Lancaster, daughter of the legendary Burt Lancaster. Joanna discussed her father's life and personal side along with her own career as a film producer and teacher. (2 parts)
Film director Stephen Frears was named "Modern Noir Master" by the Film Noir Foundation on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, following an invitation-only screening of his latest film, Victoria and Abdul, at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. (1 part)
Tippi Hedren's November 2016 book signing at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica included a discussion with writer Alan K. Rode before a screening of The Birds (1963). The still-stunning actress and animal activist discussed her screen career, her relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock and her longtime stewardship of the Roar Foundation in support of the Shambala Preserve, a Los Angeles County sanctuary for wild felines. (2 parts)
At the 2019 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, producer Alan K. Rode sat down with actress Jan Shepard to discuss her role as Elvis Presley's sister after a screening of the digitally restored King Creole (1958). After some adjustments were made to the stage lighting, Shepard unspooled several charming Elvis stories and discussed her early years in Hollywood with pals Marilyn Monroe and Amanda Blake. (2 parts)
78-years young Gigi Perreau, once one of Hollywood's most accomplished child actors, made a special appearance at the NOIR CITY festival in Hollywood on March 30, 2019. She engaged with host Eddie Muller in conversation about the evening's film, 1950's Shadow on the Wall, a noir thriller in which she co-starred witih Zacharay Scott, An Sothern, and future First Lady Nancy Davis. The effervescent Gigi was a delight as the interview shows! (2 parts)
Veteran actress Kathy Garver (remember her as "Cissy" on the TV series Family Affair?) joined Eddie Muller at the April 2019 edition of NOIR CITY: HOLLYWOOD to introduce Andre de Toth's boxing noir Monkey on My Back, based on the true story of boxer Barney Ross. (1 part)
Alan K. Rode introduced a screening of Witness for the Prosecution (1957) with the indefatigable Ruta Lee at the 2018 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. The effervescent actress took charge with a variety of amusing anecdotes along with a summary of her 60 plus years in show business. (2 parts)
Alan K. Rode chatted with author/speaker Victoria Price after screening The Web (1947) at the 2018 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California. Price discussed growing up in Hollywood with her famous father who became the subject of her book, Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. She also spoke of her eclectic career as captured in her latest book, About the Way of Being Lost. (2 parts)
Director/Writer/Actor Carl Franklin was the Opening Night guest at the NOIR CITY: Chicago festival on August 17, 2018. Between screenings of Franklin's two classic neo-noirs, Devil in a Blue Dress and One False Move, FNF president Eddie Muller engaged with the director in a wide-ranging conversation about his films, noir in general, and his take on how African-Americans perceive classic Hollywood films in which they're notoriously unrepresented. (3 parts)
After a screening of Kiss of Death (1947), author and festival producer Alan K. Rode reminisced with signer-actress Victoria Mature at the 2018 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California. The stunning Ms. Mature related several childhood stories about her iconic father while treating the audience to a memorable vocal styling of a film noir standard. (2 parts)
After a screening of Farewell My Lovely (1975), actor Jack O'Halloran discussed his life and career with producer/host Alan K. Rode at the 2018 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. The former heavyweight boxing contender regaled the opening night audience with stories about co-star Robert Mitchum, his adventures in Hollywood and his colorful family lineage. (2 parts)
After a screening of Hollow Triumph at the 2017 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, actress Monika Henreid discussed her forthcoming documentary film about her father, actor-director Paul Henreid with host Alan K. Rode. (3 parts)
The audience af the 2017 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival was thrilled by Don Siegel's classic 1973 heist film, Charley Varrick. Actor Andy Robinson shared his recollections of working with legendary director Siegel and co-star Walter Matthau during a post-screening discussion at the Camelot Theater in Palm Springs, CA with host-producer, Alan K. Rode.(2 parts)
Sara Karloff, the daughter of famed horror star Boris Karloff, was the special guest at a Mother's Day screening of her father's classic film The Body Snatcher (1945) at the 2017 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. Before the screening, Miss Karloff presented some childhood home movies and her father's final filmed interview. Afterwards, she chatted with festival host-producer Alan K. Rode about Boris Karloff's career and enduring legacy. (3 parts)
Noted cinema historian James Curtis is the definitive biographer of legendary production designer and director William Cameron Menzies. Curtis joined producer and FNF director Alan K. Rode at the 2017 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival for a discussion of Menzies' career after a screening of Reign of Terror (1949). (2 parts)
In 2016, The Film Noir Foundation partnered with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to present a series of film noir movies at historic Union Station. FNF director Alan K. Rode presented the Foundation's restored Blu-ray of Too Late for Tears (1949) on December 2, 2016. Here is Alan's introduction with special guest Richard Duryea in Union Station's Grand Ticket Hall. (2 parts)
Claude Jarman Jr. was a special guest at the 2016 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival for a screening of Intruder in the Dust (1949). The Oscar winning star of The Yearling (1946) reminisced with festival host-producer Alan K. Rode about his acting career and his more recent exploits as a film producer and head of the San Francisco Film Society. (3 parts)
Host-producer Alan K.Rode welcomed actress Ann Robinson back to the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in May 2016 after a rare screening of Dragnet (1954). Robinson reminisced about landing the role in the film and working with star-director Jack Webb, among other career highlights. (2 parts)
Bernard Herrmann was spotlighted at the 2015 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California with a screening of HANGOVER SQUARE (1945) that featured the legendary composer's "Concerto Macabre." After the film, festival producer and host Alan K. Rode interviewed Steven C. Smith, author of A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann on the main stage at the Camelot Theaters. (3 parts)
In 2015, the one and only Norman Lloyd returned to the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs for a screening of Joseph Losey's M (1951). After the film, host Alan K. Rode elicited a memorable anecdote from the irrepressible centenarian about the great Charles Laughton that brought the house down. (3 parts)
Gordon Gebert who appeared in Holiday Affair (1949), The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), and The Narrow Margin (1952) reminisced about working opposite Dan Duryea after a screening of Chicago Calling (1951) at the 2015 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California. The former child actor who is now a distinguished architect and professor also discussed his career as a Hollywood child actor with producer & host Alan K. Rode. (3 parts)
Author J.R. Jones spoke with host-producer Alan K. Rode about his new biography, THE LIVES OF ROBERT RYAN, after a screening of On Dangerous Ground (1951) at the 2015 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs. (3 parts)
Stephen Bogart, son of legendary icons Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, made a special appearance during the opening weekend of NOIR CITY Hollywood on Saturday night, April 4, presenting his parents' 1947 noir Dark Passage, as well as the new neo-noir This Last Lonely Place, which he executive produced. Watch Eddie Muller's Interviewwith the droll raconteur! (2 parts)
The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival opened its 16th edition on this past May with a screening of the Coen brothers' classic Miller's Crossing (1990). Renowned character actor Jon Polito (a Coen Bros. fixture) joined festival producer and host Alan K. Rode onstage to discuss his role in the acclaimed gangster saga, as well as his expansive career on stage, screen and television. (3 parts)
Patricia Morison, who starred in the original Broadway production of Kiss Me Kate as well as a plethora of movies and plays, recently celebrated her 100th birthday. Ms. Morison was a special guest at the 2015 edition of NOIR CITY: Hollywood where she introduced a screening of The Fallen Sparrow with host Alan K. Rode. (2 parts)
Legendary actor-director Norman Lloyd celebrated his 100th birthday with a centennial appearance at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, hosted by Alan K. Rode on November 21, 2014. Hollywood's greatest raconteur regaled the audience with an anecdote-laden conversation between screenings of Saboteur and A Walk in the Sun. (3 parts)
Barbara Hale made a rare appearance on stage with host Alan K. Rode after a screening of The Window (1949) at the 2014 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs. The still-vivacious star reminisced about her early years at RKO that resulted in a notable movie career followed by her iconic portrayal of Della Street in the long-running Perry Mason TV show and movie series. (4 parts)
Barbara Stanwyck, arguably the first lady of noir, is an enduring Hollywood icon. After a screening of Sorry, Wrong Number at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, Foster Hirsch interviews Victoria Wilson, senior editor at Alfred Knopf, about her monumental biography, A Life of Stanwyck, Steel-True 1907-1940. (3 parts)
Burt Lancaster remains one of the icons of cinema whose indelible presence endures on the big screen. After a screening of The Killers (1946) Alan K. Rode discusses Lancaster's life and career with author Kate Buford, Burt Lancaster: An American Life and Susie Lancaster, Burt's widow at the 2014 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. (3 parts)
Terry Moore, ageless star of Shack Out on 101, engages Film Noir Foundation prez Eddie Muller in a fun—and at times inexplicable—Interviewfollowing the film's screening at the 2014 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. Terry discusses her patriotic feelings for the film, her recent role in HBO's True Detective, and a lifetime in-between. (2 parts)
Laura (1944) is one of the classic American films and remains cinematic ground zero for film noir fans. At the 2014 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, host Alan K. Rode chatted with Susan Andrews, daughter of the film's star Dana Andrews. Susan conversed with superb insight about her father's life and career including recalling what it was like to grow up in Hollywood as the daughter of a major movie star. (3 parts)
Actress Nancy Olson was 20 years old when she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for portraying 22 year old Betty Schaefer in the Sunset Boulevard in 1950. Both the film, shown at the 2014 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, and Nancy Olson-Livingston appear to be ageless. During a post-screening discussion with host Alan K. Rode, Olson reflected about one of the greatest films ever made and reminisced about her life and career. (3 parts)
