Join Czar of Noir Eddie Muller as he returns with the fourth annual Noir City Film Festival at SIFF Cinema for a week of the quintessential American genre. The theme for this year’s program is part and parcel of classic noir: “Lust and Larceny.”
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Intimate Fireside Chat with the Czar of Noir Eddie Muller!
Sunday, February 21, 3:30pm
Join us at the Sorrento Hotel's Fireside Room for an intimate chat with Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir, as we celebrate the 4th annual Noir City Festival, screening at SIFF Cinema February 19-25. Eddie is President and Founder of the Film Noir Foundation and a writer, filmmaker, and noted noir historian. His books include "Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir," "Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir," and "The Art of Noir: Posters and Graphics from the Classic Film Noir Era." He has recorded numerous audio commentaries for DVD reissues of classic noir films. Muller’s crime fiction debut, "The Distance" was named “Best First Novel” of 2002 by the Private Eye Writers of America. He is co-author of the bestseller "Tab Hunter Confidential."This special conversation will be moderated by Sean Axmaker, a DVD columnist for MSN Entertainment, a contributing writer for Turner Classic Movies Online, Parallax View (www.parallax-view.org) and The Stranger and was a film critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for nine years. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
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 | Dir. Robert Parrish, 1951, 79 min.
One of the most wicked and witty revenge yarns of the original film noir era. We’re thrilled to present this terrific film in a brand new 35mm restoration. Double feature with The Mob. more |
 | Dir. Robert Siodmak, 1950, 89 min.
This thinly-veiled tale of mobster Lucky Luciano’s enforced return to his roots is an ultra-rarity–the hardest-to-find of Siodmak’s American films. Double feature with Fly-by-Night. more |
 | Dir. Robert Siodmak, 1942, 74 min.
Shifting between risqué romantic comedy and shadowy suspense, this engaging B film is more screwball than noir, but a complete delight from start to finish! Double feature with Deported. more |
 | Dir. John Berry, 1951, 77 min.
Facing nothing but a dead end life, a small time hood pulls a simple stick-up… but when he shoots a cop his life spins out of control. Double feature with The Postman Always Rings Twice. more |
 | Dir. Fritz Lang, 1951, 91 min.
Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame rekindle their flame from Lang’s 1953 smash The Big Heat, and Broderick Crawford plays the loutish cuckold they want to be rid of. Double feature with Inside Job. more |
 | Dir. Jean Yarbrough, 1946, 65 min.
Newlywed ex-cons are forced into a mobster’s plan to rob a downtown department store. Double feature with Human Desire. more |
 | Dir. George Sherman, 1948, 89 min.
John Payne and Dan Duryea play dandy grifters bent on bilking a wealthy war widow (Joan Caulfield). Both are tangled up with saucy Shelley Winters, who’s more dangerous than a loaded .38. Double feature with Pitfall. more |
 | Dir. Robert Parrish, 1951, 89 min.
Broderick Crawford stars as a hard-nosed cop that infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. Double feature with Cry Danger. more |
 | Dir. Samuel Fuller, 1953, 80 min.
A New York pickpocket is caught between the Commies and the Feds, playing both ends against the middle for his own gain. Double feature with Slattery's Hurricane. more |
 | Dir. André de Toth, 1948, 86 min.
Bored suburbanite Dick Powell drifts into a dalliance with hard luck model Lizabeth Scott, only to find his life and family threatened by an obsessive private eye and a jealous ex-con. Double feature with Larceny. more |
 | Dir. Tay Garnett, 1946, 113 min.
Ill-fated lovers plot murder in one of the most revered films in the genre, and the progenitor of a thousand “erotic thrillers”. Double feature with He Ran All the Way. more |
 | Dir. Roy Del Ruth, 1949, 83 min.
San Francisco truck company owner Johnny Toro seeks revenge on the killers of his priest brother, who left a clue to the culprit’s identity in a missing Bible. Double feature with Walk A Crooked Mile. more |
 | Dir. André de Toth, 1949, 89 min.
The rarest film of Richard Widmark’s early rise to stardom is an uncommonly adult story of infidelity and drug-smuggling. Double feature with Pickup on South Street. more |
 | Dir. Gordon Douglas, 1948, 91 min.
When a security leak at an atomic energy plant threatens the security of the free world, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector track the spy ring to—where else?—Commie-infested San Francisco. Double feature with Red Light. more |