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San Francisco: Scene of the Perfect Crime
A tribute to the delicious, sinful crime films set in San Francisco. Continue reading
Tag Archives: film noir
Eat My Shorts – The Stolen Moment- Film Noir‘s Neon Nights and Making Cocktails
“Neon enhances a cityscape, keeps a city’s spirits up in the wee small hours and in all kind of weather, casts color on drab pavements, bounces crazy reflections off dark windows, and draws the eye upward to where you might not otherwise be looking.”
—Tom Downs, from the Foreword of San Francisco Neon 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
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
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