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NOIR CITY Boston will return to its home at The Brattle, June 13-15. This year’s program will turn a spotlight on the women of film noir. FNF board member and film historian Foster Hirsch will be your host. Hirsch is also the author of author of Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen and Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television.
We hope to see you there!
We will let you know when tickets, passes and the schedule are available on The Brattle website.
CONFIRMED 2025 NOIR CITY DATES
NOIR CITY: Boston: June 13-15
The Brattle, Cambridge, MA
NOIR CITY: Portland: July 11-13
Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
NOIR CITY: Chicago: September 5-11
Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL
NOIR CITY: Detroit: September 19-21
Redford Theatre, Detroit, MI
NOIR CITY: D.C.: October 10-23
AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
NOIR CITY: Philadelphia: November 14-16
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville, PA
The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns for its 26th year with twelve films plus one special event, May 8-11, at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. FNF board member and film historian Alan K. Rode produces and programs the annual festival and will be the festival’s host. This year’s guests include Rory Flynn, Wyatt McCrea, and Eddie Muller.
The festival will open on Thursday night with a 7:30 pm screening of Cry Wolf (1947) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn. Flynn’s daughter, Rory Flynn, will be in attendance and will sign her book The Baron of Mulholland: A Daughter Remembers Errol Flynn before the screening. On Friday afternoon, May 9, Eddie Muller will sign his newest release Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir before a 1:00 pm screening of 1947’s Johnny O’Clock.
Along with classic-era noirs, Peter Yates’ elegiac character piece The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), featuring a superb performance by Robert Mitchem as a low-level gangster trying to stay out of jail, will screen at 4 pm on Saturday, May 10.
The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival schedule, All-Access Festival Passes, and tickets are available here.
SPECIAL TICKET EVENT: Nightmare Alley (2021)
Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley will be screening Sunday, May 11. All-Access Passholders can purchase a ticket for this special event at 50% off the $30 ticket price. Scheduled special guests: director/screenwriter Guillermo Del Toro and screenwriter Kim Morgan.
Scheduled festival special guests are subject to availability.
Lucas Cullen (in green suit above), the recipient of 2024’s FNF-Nancy Mysel Legacy Grant, looks back on his past year at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. READ MORE
Preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and now beautifully restored through the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) is a significant example of the cross-cultural cinematic legacy shared by the United States and Argentina during the post-WWII era. Based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction Cornell Woolrich, the film is brilliantly directed by Argentine filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen with extraordinary cinematography by Pablo Tabernero. ORDER YOUR COPY
Says FNF founder Eddie Muller about this recent restoration, “It is a revelation to experience the work of an all-American author, in Spanish, and rendered as well – or perhaps better – than any Hollywood adaptation of his work.” + READ MORE
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
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
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
Did you know that The Film Noir Foundation regularly livestreams 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 latest ASK EDDIE broadcast on Facebook April 17 and on YouTube the following day.
The TCM Classic Film Festival returns to Hollywood, April 24-27. Despite this year’s theme, “Grand Illusions: Fantastic World on Film”, there is still plenty of dark programming. FNF prez and TCM host Eddie Muller will be plenty busy too, we’ll cover his noir related appearances here. Be sure to follow us on social media for daily festival updates including all his appearances at TCMFF.
Eddie is thrilled to be introducing TCMFF’s tribute screening of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) with the film’s star Kyle Kyle MacLachlan. Lynch’s breakthrough film establishes one of his trademarks: exposing the seedy underbelly of a seemingly idyllic small town. Digging into the mystery behind his discovery of a severed ear, college student Jefery (MacLachlan) falls into the twisted world of criminal Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini). The film established Lynch as one of the screen’s most visionary and controversial directors.
Eddie will also be introducing the world premiere 4K Ignite Films restoration of The Big Combo (1955) alongside actress/dancer/choreographer and film noir fan Rosie Perez. Cornel Wilde stars as a relentless police detective determined to take down a sadistic crime boss, in this film directed by Joseph H. Lewis.
Eddie will be signing copies of the revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames for passholders at the Roosevelt Hotel, Sunday, April 27, 4:15 pm.
There are several more noirs playing at the festival which will not be introduced by Eddie. Award-winning actor, producer, musician, and entrepreneur Cliff “Method Man” Smith will introduce the 75th anniversary screening of Billy Wilders’ Sunset Boulevard (1950). The tale of a failing screenwriter Joe Gillis (Holden) who lets himself be kept by the forgotten silent star Norma Desmond (Swanson) is one of the screen’s most trenchant views of Hollywood life.
Two Joan Crawford films will play in nitrate. First, Daisy Kenyon (1947), courtesy of the Library of Congress. Joan Crawford plays a commercial artist caught in a love triangle with an unhappily married man (Dana Andrews) and a widowed war veteran (Henry Fonda) in director Otto Preminger’s poignant romantic drama. The legendary film noir Mildred Pierce (1945) is the other, print courtesy of the British Film Institute.
On the social commentary side of noir, Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes star in director Martin Ritt’s Edge of the City (1957); two blue collar workers’ new friendship is tested by racial tensions and the threat of a violent gang. The film will be introduced by Don Bogle, author of Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers.
Don’t want to buy a pass? After passholders have been seated, open seats will be sold on a first come, first served, standby basis at the individual venue box offices, and be sold just prior to the individual program start time.
Passes are available for purchase here.
The TCM Classic Film Festival returns to Hollywood, April 24-27 with screenings and events taking place at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX, the TCL Theatre Multiplex, the Egyptian Theatre, the El Capitan Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
This year’s theme is “Grand Illusions: Fantastic World on Film and the programming announced so far includes the musical fantasy Brigadoon (1954), as well as the world premiere of a restoration of The Enchanted Cottage, a fantasy romance, as well as straight up sci-fi films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).
Director Michael Schultz is this year’s TCM Classic Festival honoree. His box office hit Car Wash (1976) and his notorious but successful The Last Dragon—made for Motown’s Barry Gordy—will screen. The festival will also pay tribute to the late David Lynch with screenings of Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990).
Legendary actress Michelle Pfeiffer will be celebrated with a hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, April 25th. She will also be in attendance for a screening of The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). More on the TCM Classic Film Festival here.
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In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—FNF founder and Turner Classic Movies host—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text, photos, and ten new star profiles.
In Dark City Dames, acclaimed film historian Eddie Muller takes readers into the world of six women who made a lasting impression in this cinematic terrain—from veteran “bad girls” Audrey Totter, Marie Windsor, and Jane Greer to unexpected genre fixtures Evelyn Keyes, Coleen Gray, and Ann Savage. The book provides in-depth profiles of these formidable women during the height of their careers, circa 1950, as they balanced love and career, struggled against typecasting, and sought fulfillment in a ruthless business. Their personal stories—teeming with larger-than-life characters like Howard Hughes, Louis B. Mayer, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger, and John Huston—offer a fascinating counterpoint to their movies. Then, Dark City Dames revisits each woman fifty years later to witness their hard-won—and triumphant—survival. On every page their own voices ring through, reflecting on their lives with as much passion, pain, intelligence, energy, and humor as any movie script. Muller conducted far-ranging interviews with the original six women profiled in Dark City Dames, in the process becoming a friend and confidante to each.
In this revised and expanded edition, he updates their stories and shares illuminating, never-before-told memories of his time with them. This edition also includes compelling new profiles of ten additional women who left an indelible mark on film noir, including Joan Bennett, Gail Russell, Rhonda Fleming, and Claire Trevor—all packaged in a stunning redesign that offers the ultimate look at performers who helped define a still-resonant and inspiring epoch of Hollywood history.
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