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Noir City
SIFF Cinema Egyptian
The Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller, took a break from hosting TCM's Noir Alley to guide Seattle audiences on a journey through Film Noir. The 2018 Noir City festival featured 18 classic films that took audiences to the darkest and most dangerous places a film lover can go. Many of these films were newly restored, and all were introduced by our guest Eddie Muller, the incomparable impresario of Noir City.
PROGRAMMED FILMS
Quiet Please, Murder
USA | 1942 | 70 minutes | John Larkin
February 16, 2018
A book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library.
The Maltese Falcon
USA | 1941 | 101 minutes | John Huston
February 16 - 19, 2018
Opening Night Film! Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical, tough-talking private eye, becomes ensnared in a web of deceit when a simple missing persons case becomes a deadly hunt for a missing statuette.
Address Unknown
USA | 1944 | 75 minutes | William Cameron Menzies
February 17, 2018
The film tells the story of two families caught up in the rise of Nazism in Germany prior to the start of World War II.
Destiny
USA | 1944 | 65 minutes | Reginald Le Borg, Julien Duvivier (uncredited)
February 17, 2018
Originally conceived as a fourth "episode" in Flesh and Fantasy, this expanded story is about a cynical ex-con and the blind girl that may be the key to his redemption.
Flesh and Fantasy
USA | 1943 | 94 minutes | Julien Duvivier
February 17, 2018
Two members of a gentlemen's club tell three tales of the supernatural in this atmospheric pre-cursor to "The Twilight Zone."
Shadow of a Doubt
USA | 1943 | 108 minutes | Alfred Hitchcock
February 17, 2018
In Alfred Hitchcock's glimpse into the dark side of suburbia, a young woman discovers her visiting uncle may not be the man he seems to be.
Jealousy
USA | 1945 | 71 minutes | Gustav Machatý
February 18, 2018
A successful alcoholic writer is murdered and his wife is accused.
Mildred Pierce
USA | 1945 | 111 minutes | Michael Curtiz
February 18 - 19, 2018
Joan Crawford delivers a ferocious, Oscar®-winning performance as a hard-working housewife who struggles to provide the best life for her little girl Veda, only to find herself trapped in a dark world of thwarted desires.
The Big Sleep
USA | 1946 | 116 | Howard Hawks
February 18, 2018
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
The Blue Dahlia
USA | 1946 | 96 minutes | George Marshall
February 18, 2018
Writer Raymond Chandler's only original screenplay is a classic about a returning vet being framed for his unfaithful wife's murder.
Blind Spot
USA | 1947 | 73 minutes | Robert Gordon
February 19, 2018
Veteran Columbia star Chester Morris delivers a terrific performance as a hard-drinking, hard-luck writer who pitches his skeptical publisher an ingenious "locked room" mystery . . . only to have the crime come true.
Kiss of Death
USA | 1947 | 99 minutes | Henry Hathaway
February 19, 2018
With his law-breaking lifestyle in the past, an ex-con, along with his family, attempt to start a new life, knowing a betrayed someone from the past is bound to see otherwise.
Bodyguard
USA | 1948 | 62 minutes | Richard Fleischer
February 20, 2018
An ousted Los Angeles homicide detective goes to work for a widow and is framed for murder.
I Walk Alone
USA | 1948 | 97 minutes | Byron Haskin
February 20, 2018
An ex-convict leaves prison expecting his equal share from his ex-partner. But his partner has no intention of sharing.
The Accused
USA | 1949 | 101 minutes | William Dieterle
February 21, 2018
When a college student grows inappropriately fond of his psychology professor and tries to rape her, she fights back. But as she defends herself, she accidentally kills her attacker.
The Threat
USA | 1949 | 66 minutes | Felix E. Feist
February 21, 2018
Murderer Arnold "Red" Kluger has a score to settle: when he was convicted, he promised revenge on the people who put him in prison.
Roadblock
USA | 1951 | 73 minutes | Harold Daniels
February 22, 2018
An honest LA insurance detective becomes corrupt and turns to crime after falling in love with a gold-digger model.
The Man Who Cheated Himself
USA | 1950 | 81 minutes | Felix E. Feist
February 22, 2018
A woman in the process of divorce shoots her husband and gets her police lieutenant boyfriend to help hide the body.