by Gary Meyer
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On Friday night, January 29, Noir City and EatDrinkFilms present two film noir classics, set behind the seamy back doors of the Hollywood studios, at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. Continue reading
Category Archives: Films: Noir
Through a lens darkly…
by Michael Fox
Good news, noir aficionados: It’s raining. During our hot streak of parched winters, it took a certain panache to attend Noir City—let alone strut around town—in a trench coat. Bogie could pull it off, Continue reading
EAT MY SHORTS: The Noir World of Serena Bramble
We recently stumbled upon a brilliant video essay.
San Francisco: Scene of the Perfect Crime
A tribute to the delicious, sinful crime films set in San Francisco. Continue reading
L’amour Fou: Betrayal and Suspicion in French Film Noir
Last year the Roxie scored a big hit with “The French Had a Name For It,” a first-ever all-French spinoff of longtime programmer Elliot Lavine’s popular U.S. noir retrospectives. Now Lavine and former editor of Noir City Magazine Don Malcolm are back with a second edition that is primarily the brainchild of the latter. Continue reading
Noir Nightmares: ‘I Wake Up Dreaming’ comes to the Castro
by Pam Grady
Make no mistake. Lucky Gagin (Robert Montgomery) is a chump to end all chumps in Ride the Pink Horse (1947), Continue reading
Night Rangers: A Look at “Dark Horse—Film Noir Westerns” at YBCA
by Dennis Harvey
Human psychology is the ball and chain we drag with us everywhere we go, even into the Great Outdoors. Americans have long had a sentimental fondness for the assumed “rugged simplicity” of life in areas farthest flung from the clutter and neurosis of urban life. Continue reading
So Dark, So Elusive: “A Rare Noir is Good to Find” Spans 25 Years and the Globe at the Roxie
by Pam Grady
For noir fans walking into the Roxie Theater on Thursday, March 19, it will be as if they have merely been on an absurdly long intermission. Continue reading
Noir City 13: ‘Til Death Do Us Part
by Kelly Vance
Even as film noir has gained popularity with audiences recently, an old complaint about it surfaces from time to time: That it’s more or less a “boys’ club,” Continue reading