Noir City
February 16–22, 2024
Noir City returns to SIFF for its 16th year for a week of thematically linked pairings of international and English-language noir films. Produced by Eddie Muller—Film Noir Foundation founder, Turner Classic Movies host, and "Czar of Noir''— this celebration of the film noir genre is a beloved annual event.
Kicking off with the Film Noir Foundation’s most recent restoration of Never Open That Door (Argentina, 1952), the festival will feature seven days of thematically linked bills, pairing foreign-language films with movies made in the United States and United Kingdom. “This year's Noir City program is tailored to satisfy folks who love noir that's full of the colorful vernacular slang so essential to American and British noir—as well as adventurous viewers intrigued by a familiar story–a crime committed for passion or profit—playing out in cultures with different values, mores, and styles.”—Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller will host all shows February 16–18, then pass the hosting honors over to acclaimed mystery novel authors Vince and Rosemarie Keenan (“Renee Patrick”) February 19–22.
Passholders–Show your pass at Saint John’s Bar & Eatery for 15% off your tab. Enjoy Noir-themed cocktails from Eddie Muller’s “Noir Bar” book, and be sure to thank them for their support of SIFF! Valid Feb 16-22, 2024.
PASSES - Member: $125 | Non-Member: $150
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS - Member: $11 | Non-Member: $16
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SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for these screenings.
Noir City Opening Night - Feb 16, 5:00 PM
Opening Night Pre-reception with Eddie Muller starting at 5:00pm. Cocktails available for purchase at the Noir Bar and live music from Casey MacGill Trio.
Book Signing with Eddie Muller - Feb 17, 5:00 PM
Celebrate the release of Czar of Noir Eddie Muller’s new book, “Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar,” with this special book signing event in partnership with University Book Store. Copies of the book will be available on site for sale, along with other Film Noir Foundation merchandise.
Noir City: Never Open That Door
Argentina | 1952 | 85 min. | Carlos Hugo Christensen
February 16, 2024
Noir City is proud to present a new Film Noir Foundation restoration of this duo of suspense stories from the pen of Cornell Woolrich.
Noir City: Street of Chance
USA | 1942 | 74 min. | Jack Hively
February 16, 2024
The first case of amnesia in the classic noir era—Frank Thompson (Burgess Meredith) survives an accident only to have the shock RESTORE his memory! Presented on 35mm.
Noir City: Odd Man Out
United Kingdom | 1947 | 116 min. | Carol Reed
February 17, 2024
One of the most highly regarded movies ever made in the UK. James Mason plays a fugitive Irish Nationalist roped into a heist that goes fatally wrong.
Noir City: Victims of Sin
Mexico | 1951 | 90 min. | Emilio Fernández
February 17, 2024
New 4K Restoration! Ninón Sevilla dances up a storm while dodging a vicious pimp, defying her boss, and rescuing an abandoned baby from the trash.
Noir City: Union Station
USA | 1950 | 81 min. | Rudolph Maté
February 17, 2024
Cops William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald race to foil a kidnapping plot in Chicago’s Union Station. The film’s brutality is decades ahead of its time.
Noir City: Cairo Station
Egypt | 1958 | 77 min. | Youssef Chahine
February 17, 2024
A newspaper hawker (played by the director himself) at the eponymous train depot develops a frightening obsession with a sexy lemonade vendor.
Noir City: Across the Bridge
United Kingdom | 1957 | 103 min. | Ken Annakin
February 18, 2024
This Graham Greene adaptation has as an arrogant embezzler fleeing to Mexico; his impulsive escape plan goes sideways when he switches identities with a stranger.
Noir City: Zero Focus
Japan | 1960 | 95 min. | Yoshitaro Nomura
February 18, 2024
Newlywed Teiko sees her husband Kenichi off on a business trip but anticipates his return. When Kenichi vanishes, Teiko begins her own investigation.
Noir City: Elevator to the Gallows
France | 1958 | 91 min. | Louis Malle
February 18, 2024
An adulterous couple’s plot to murder the woman’s husband collides with a pair of bungling teens acting out their crime-movie fantasies. Miles Davis score.
Noir City: Strongroom
United Kingdom | 1962 | 80 min. | Vernon Sewell
February 18, 2024
Crooks knock over a bank at Saturday closing, locking two employees in the vault. When they realize Monday is a holiday, they must break back into the bank to free them.
Noir City: Plunder Road
USA | 1957 | 72 min. | Hubert Cornfield
February 19, 2024
Trying for the score of a lifetime, hooded robbers steal a load of gold bullion from a train during a driving rainstorm. The film never stops moving.
Noir City: Symphony for a Massacre
France | 1963 | 115 min. | Jacques Deray
February 19, 2024
Five Parisian businessmen go in on a drug deal, but one of them has a plan to hijack the loot and run off with a comrade’s wife.
Noir City: Black Tuesday
USA | 1954 | 80 min. | Hugo Fregonese
February 20, 2024
Edward G. Robinson’s most vicious performance as a gangster who makes a daring prison break on the day of his execution, holing up with a group of horrified hostages. Presented on 35mm.
Noir City: The Hole (Le trou)
France | 1960 | 131 min. | Jacques Becker
February 20, 2024
This masterpiece of suspense commits itself to raw truth, focusing on painstaking process and creating a hypnotic intensity as prisoners try to dig their way out. New 4K Restoration.
Noir City: The Asphalt Jungle
USA | 1950 | 112 min. | John Huston
February 21, 2024
A landmark in the history of crime movies and the progenitor of all heist films that followed. The film subverted the Production Code by making viewers empathize with the criminals.
Noir City: Four Ways Out
Italy | 1951 | 84 min. | Pietro Germi
February 21, 2024
Four amateur thieves execute a daring robbery at a soccer stadium. They separate to evade the police, but escaping their personal demons proves far more difficult. Presented on 35mm.
Noir City: The Human Beast (La bête humaine)
France | 1938 | 100 min. | Jean Renoir
February 22, 2024
Jean Gabin plays a train engineer whose “hereditary flaw” causes psychotic episodes. When he falls for the wife of a railway official, they are on track for inevitable tragedy.
Noir City: Human Desire
USA | 1954 | 91 min. | Fritz Lang
February 22, 2024
Gloria Grahame gives a bruised performance as a woman who wonders if killing her husband (Broderick Crawford) is the only way out of the eternal noir triangle.
