NOIR CITY SEATTLE: It's All About the Women

NOIR CITY returns to Seattle. 

Winsome to Wicked … It’s All About the Women 

NOIR CITY: Seattle, February 14-20, at a new venue — SIFF Cinema Downtown (2100 4th Street). This year’s program shines a spotlight on women whose cinematic legacy is entwined with the rise of film noir. Twelve of the eighteen films screening will be presented in glorious 35mm, including the Film Noir Foundation’s restoration of Cry Danger (1951). NOIR CITY: Seattle is also proud to screen the new 4K restoration by Universal Pictures of Robert Siodmak’s Phantom Lady (1944). Many of the festival films feature the actresses profiled in Eddie Muller’s 2002 book Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir, which is being reissued in April 2025 in a revised and expanded edition. 

Opening Night starts at 5:30 p.m. with a special performance by the Dmitri Matheny Quintet performing jazz from the silver screen. Lyrical flugelhornist Matheny will be joined by his all-star band prior to the screening of The Narrow Margin (1952). FNF founder and TCM host Eddie Muller will present all festival screenings opening weekend, February 14-16. Local noir experts and authors Vince and Rosemarie Keenan will take over hosting duties February 17-20.

NOIR CITY XMAS: Who Killed Santa Claus?

NOIR CITY Xmas is on its way! Join host Eddie Muller on Wednesday, December 18, 7:30 pm, at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre for NOIR CITY Xmas! To darken your Yuletide spirit, the Film Noir Foundation is presenting Who Killed Santa Claus? (L'Assassinat du père Noël), a 1941 French mystery. The evening will also feature the unveiling of the program (and poster!) for NOIR CITY 22, the 22nd year of the world's most popular film noir festival, coming to the Grand Lake Theatre January 24 - February 2, 2025. 

Tickets for NOIR CITY Xmas are available online from Eventbrite for $15 and can also be purchased at the theatre box office on the day of the show. Doors will open at 6:30 pm on the day of the event. What a Great Deal!!!

NOIR CITY SEATTLE: February 10-16

NOIR CITY returns to Seattle this Friday, February 10, to celebrate its 15th anniversary in the Emerald City with 18 films from the heart of Hollywood's noir movement, 1948. Playing at SIFF Cinema Egyptian February 10–16, each film in this year's lineup is celebrating its 75th anniversary. 

Join Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder and host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, on February 10–12 and local noir authors Vince and Rosemarie Keenan on February 13–16 for film introductions. 

NOIR CITY: Seattle's film selection is an eclectic mix of star-studded classics (The Big Clock, The Naked City, They Live by Night) and lesser-known gems rarely seen on the big screen (Larceny, So Evil My Love, Unfaithfully Yours). 2023's festival will also be presenting films never before screened at Seattle's NOIR CITY: Key Largo, Call Northside 777, and All My Sons. Plus, there will be three films lensed by noir's greatest cinematographer, John Alton: The Spiritualist, Raw Deal, and Hollow Triumph. 

NOIR CITY: Seattle film schedule, passes, and tickets for individual screenings are available here. 

NOTE: More NOIR CITY dates have been confirmed! 

NOIR CITY: Chicago plays August 25-31 at Chicago's Music Box Theatre

NOIR CITY: D.C. plays October 13-26 at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD.

NOIR CITY: FILM NOIR FESTIVAL

NOIR CITY, the most popular film noir festival in the world, celebrates its 20th anniversary in the Bay Area with a ten-day extravaganza featuring 24 films from the heart of Hollywood's noir movement, 1948. Every film on the schedule is celebrating its 75th anniversary, with several of the movies having never before been screened at NOIR CITY. 

Join Film Noir Foundation founder and Turner Classic Movies host Eddie Muller and a slew of special guests for a swanky, sexy, and sinister excursion back in time. With the ongoing turmoil over the future of San Francisco's Castro Theatre, the festival's home for most of its existence, Muller opted to move NOIR CITY across the bay to Oakland, a decision that proved successful last spring when the Grand Lake Theatre was filled with appreciative fans for an abbreviated 4-night version of NOIR CITY 19. “The Grand Lake may be smaller in capacity than the Castro," said Muller, "but it's a jewel of a movie palace, and it intends to remain a movie house—so it's a great fit for what we do—which is to offer a contemporary equivalent of the classic movie-going experience for a new generation of fans.” 

TICKET INFO 

Purchase advance tickets through Brown Paper Tickets with any of the ticket links in the program guide above. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. for evening shows; noon for matinées. 

NOIR CITY 20 PASSPORT 

Purchase a NOIR CITY PassportSecure your spot for the 10-day/24-film festival with an all-access pass for $200—a $40 savings over the regular ticket price! The Grand Lake Theatre will have a Passholders' queue for early admittance. 

All FNF proceeds from festival ticket sales aid the Foundation's mission of rescuing and restoring noir films. This is your chance to have a terrific time AND preserve a valuable art form. 

Noir City Program 

https://www.noircity.com/noircity20-p1.html

NOIR CITY HOLLYWOOD: April 15-17

NOIR CITY returns to Hollywood April 15-17 with a slate of eight films and a new venue, the Hollywood Legion Theater. Screenings will be introduced by Film Noir Foundation founder and president Eddie Muller and board member Alan K. Rode. This year's festival kicks off with two FNF-funded restorations of Cy Endfield directed noirs, Try and Get Me! (1951) and the Los Angeles premiere of The Argyle Secrets (1948). The former is inspired by the true story of a 1933 kidnapping and murder in San Jose, California, and stars Lloyd Bridges and Frank Lovejoy. The latter is our latest 35mm restoration and features William Gargan as a hardboiled reporter hunting down a book listing prominent WWII traitors who put profits above fighting fascism. 

Highlights include The Film Foundation's 35mm print of Michael Curtiz' The Breaking Point (1950) based on Ernest Hemmingway's To Have and Have Not and starring John Garfield, as well as The Library of Congress' 35mm print of The Accused (1949), starring Loretta Young. 

Also to be screened: the Film Noir Foundation's restoration of Joseph Losey's envelope-pushing The Prowler (1951), as well as the 35mm preservation print of Cy Endfield's The Underworld Story (1950) starring Dan Duryea in a rare protagonist role. FNF proceeds from the NOIR CITY festival benefit the foundation's efforts to rescue and restore noir films in danger of being permanently lost or damaged. 

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 All patrons aged 18 and up will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Tickets for NOIR CITY: Hollywood are $18 per show. Discounts are available for students, military, and Post 43 members. Tickets, full schedule, and program notes are available on the Hollywood Legion Theater's website.

NOIR CITY 19 FESTIVAL- Set for March 2022

Let's try this again!  The NOIR CITY film festival returns from its second COVID hiatus March 24 - 27 for an incisive and inspiring four-day festival at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre. Passports (all-access passes) and individual tickets are once again available for purchase at noircity.com. All passports and tickets already purchased for the original January shows will automatically be honored at this rescheduled March festival. If you cannot attend the new dates, please contact Brown Paper Tickets to request to have your purchase refunded.

Produced, programmed and hosted by Film Noir Foundation president Eddie Muller, 2022's NOIR CITY edition, subtitled "They Tried to Warn Us!", showcases 12 movies from mid-20th century Hollywood sure to resonate with contemporary viewers. Included are shockingly prescient films focusing on megalomaniacal politicians, corrupt businessmen, neo-Nazis, racism, anti-Semitism, sexual predators, serial killers, police brutality — even a viral epidemic! This NOIR CITY program could not be more timely or topical.

The eagerly anticipated NOIR CITY 19 will open Thursday night, March 24, with a double bill. First up, All the King's Men (1949), the noir-stained 1950 Best Picture Oscar® winner, starring Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark, an ambitious Southern politician who doesn't let ethics interfere with his meteoric political rise. Crawford won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance. The Robert Rossen film is paired with the world premiere of the FNF's latest 35mm restoration — The Argyle Secrets, a 1948 B-picture directed by Cy Endfield, returned to circulation this year through the partnership of the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive. The film's mystery centers around "The Argyle Album" containing the names of U.S. politicians and industrialists who abetted the Nazis in WW II.

Weeknight shows will be presented as double bills, with one $15 admission price for two movies. Saturday and Sunday shows will have separate admissions ($12.50) for each screening. NOIR CITY Passports (all-access passes) granting admission to all 12 films are available for $100, a $30 savings over the purchase price of individual tickets. FNF proceeds from the NOIR CITY festival benefit the foundation's efforts to rescue and restore noir films in danger of being permanently lost or damaged.

As is the tradition at NOIR CITY, fans can expect plenty of onscreen surprises, noir-inspired activities, and special guest appearances! 

The full schedule, Passports (all-access passes), individual tickets, and program notes are available at NoirCity.com.

NOIR CITY 2022: Moves to Grand Lake Theatre - Oakland!

The Film Noir Foundation Presents: NOIR CITY 19 • January 20-23, 2022 • Grand Lake Theatre

 

The NOIR CITY film festival, a Bay Area cultural institution since 2003, returns from COVID hiatus January 20-23, 2022 for an incisive and inspiring four-day festival at a new venue, Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre. Produced, programmed and hosted by Eddie Muller, this year's edition, subtitled "They Tried to Warn Us!", showcases 12 movies from mid-20th century Hollywood sure to resonate with contemporary viewers.

Included are shockingly prescient films focusing on megalomaniacal politicians, corrupt businessmen, neo-Nazis, racism, anti-Semitism, sexual predators, serial killers, police brutality—even a viral epidemic! This NOIR CITY program could not be more timely or topical. "That said, this isn't like taking your medicine," Muller notes. "It will be a restorative tonic for folks eager to see classic movies again on a big screen and enjoy, with the prescribed protocols*, a return to the party atmosphere NOIR CITY is famous for." 

Buy Passport: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5318461

NOIR CITY Xmas Coming Next Week: San Francisco

NOIR CITY Xmas Coming Next Week!

Wednesday, December 18, 7:30 p.m., a special evening of yule cruelty! The Film Noir Foundation presents a dark holiday classic from south of the border—and reveals the entire schedule for NOIR CITY INTERNATIONAL II, a program of noir from around the globe, coming January 24–February 2, 2020, to the majestic Castro Theatre. 

This year there will be a screening of Roberto Gavaldon's La Otra /The Other (1946). Dolores del Río, one of the most beautiful actresses of all-time, stars in this noir-laden thriller as identical twins: María, a manicurist who lives in near-poverty, and her sister Magdalena, who married the wealthy man María once loved. When the estranged sisters reunite at the funeral of Magdalena's husband, María can't help but imagine how different life would be if she could only trade places with her sister. Uh-oh. Take a guess where this is headed. Co-starring José Baviera, Agustín Irusta, and Victor Junco, with extraordinary cinematography by the great Alex Phillips. 

Tickets for NOIR CITY XMAS available now at Brown Paper Tickets. Tickets will also be available at the Castro Theatre box office the day of the show.

NOIR CITY XMAS: San Francisco

Ring in the holidays with a Cruel Yule courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation! Wednesday, December 19, 7:30 p.m., at San Francisco's Castro Theatre for Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955). The holiday season is the perfect time to share this timeless noir fairytale about the eternal human struggle—between avarice and atonement, sinners and saviors, good and evil. Robert Mitchum gives a legendary performance as a vile and conniving ex-con masquerading as a man of the cloth. He's not about to let two innocent children come between him and a long-hidden bounty. Shelley Winters may be a gullible mark for this faux preacher, but spinster Rachel Cooper (a memorable portrayal by Lillian Gish) knows the devil when she sees it. Actor Charles Laughton created a stunning work of magical realism, the only picture he'd ever direct. Why not quit while you're ahead? This is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece not to be missed.

In addition to bearing gifts of compelling cinematic artistry at NOIR CITY Xmas, host Eddie Muller will reveal the program for the upcoming NOIR CITY 17 festival January 25–February 3, 2019 at the Castro Theatre. Plus, for your holiday shopping pleasure, there will be NOIR CITY 17 Passports (all-access passes) for sale, along with select FNF merchandise, on the Castro mezzanine.

Holiday Giving at NOIR CITY Xmas

Here's your chance to prove it's not such a bitter little world after all! At this year's NOIR CITY Xmas, there will be collection bins available for both the San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program and the SF-Marin Food Bank. The San Francisco Firefighters are looking for toys and books for kids, infants through 12 years old. Items must be not be gift wrapped. The SF-Marin Food Bank needs the following: peanut butter, low-sugar cereal, whole-grain rice, pasta, oats, low-sodium soups and stews, tuna and other canned meats, and canned fruits and vegetables. Please no glass, opened items, perishables, or items past their "use before" date. 

NOIR CITY D.C.: October 12-25, 2018

Mr. Muller and Mr. Rode Go to Washington

NOIR CITY returns to the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD, October 12-25. Taking attendees back to the golden age of film noir, NOIR CITY will present this year's films as they were experienced upon original release––pairing a top-tier studio "A" with a shorter, low-budget second feature or "B" film. In addition, there will also be a teaming of both versions of The Killers: Robert Siodmak's 1946 classic with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, playing with Don Siegel's 1964 reimagining with John Cassavetes and Angie Dickinson, which puts more emphasis on the killers, played by Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager. The FNF's latest restoration, The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), shot on location in San Francisco, will screen along with Paramount's new digital restoration of Byron Haskin's I Walk Alone (1948), featuring a trio of powerhouse players: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Lizabeth Scott. 

Opening weekend screenings, Friday, October 12–Sunday, October 14, will be introduced by author and FNF board member Alan K. Rode. Eddie Muller will take over hosting duties Friday, October 19–Sunday, October 21. The full NOIR CITY: D.C. schedule and tickets––plus the all-access NOIR CITY Pass––are available on the AFI Silver's website.

NOIR CITY Returns to the Motor City!

NOIR CITY Detroit returns to its home at the historic Redford Theatre September 22-23 with all the violence, corruption, and melodrama that Detroiters have come to expect from this annual film noir festival. This year's 2-day event kicks off on Saturday night with a double bill of Act of Violence (1949) and The Killing (1956) and closes with a midnight screening of Taxi Driver (1976). Sunday afternoon brings a double bill of big-city corruption––Force of Evil (1948) and the independent crime feature Inside Detroit (1956) shot entirely on location in the Motor City! On Sunday evening, the festival wraps up with two noir melodramas––a new digital restoration of I Walk Alone (1948) and No Man of Her Own (1950).

FNF founder and president Eddie Muller will introduce all the films. The $30 NOIR CITY All Movie Pass grants access to all festival screenings plus entry to an exclusive reception with Eddie on Saturday, September 22, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., prior to the evening shows.

NOIR CITY: CHICAGO

NOIR CITY celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Music Box Theatre with a week-long extravaganza of nine double features, August 17-23, kicking off with an opening night tribute to writer-director Carl Franklin. FNF president Eddie Muller will join the director for an in-person discussion between screenings of Franklin's neo-noirs Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) and One False Move (1992). The festival's following six days will present a total of 16 classic noirs as they were experienced on their original release, pairing a top-tier studio "A" with a shorter, low-budget second feature or "B" film. The FNF's latest restoration, The Man Who Cheated Himself, an independently made noir thriller from 1950 shot on location in San Francisco, will screen along with Paramount's new digital restoration of Byron Haskin's I Walk Alone (1948) starring a trio of powerhouse noir players: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Lizabeth Scott. 

The FNF's Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode will be your guides through the dark alleyways of NOIR CITY. Opening weekend shows (Friday – Sunday) will be presented by Muller and weeknight shows by Rode. The full schedule, showtimes, and advance tickets are now available on the Music Box's website.

NOIR CITY: DENVER

The Film Noir Foundation will be partnering with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Littleton, Colorado, to present the first NOIR CITY: Denver, March 23 - 25, 2018, a three-day festival featuring ten films.

FNF founder and president Eddie Muller will have a special co-host at this festival—legendary crime fiction author (and FNF Advisory Council member) James Ellroy, who will co-program the festival with the Czar of Noir.

The schedule for NOIR CITY: Denver is being finalized now, and will be announced on the Alamo's website soon.

Upcoming Noir City Dates:

NOIR CITY Seattle: February 16-22, 2018
NOIR CITY Denver: March 23-25, 2018
NOIR CITY Hollywood: April 13-22, 2018
NOIR CITY Austin: May 18-20, 2018 
NOIR CITY Boston: June 8-10, 2018 
NOIR CITY Chicago: August 17-23, 2018
NOIR CITY Detroit: September 2018 dates TBD
NOIR CITY D.C: October 2018 dates TBD

Noir City Xmas!

'Tis the Season – NOIR CITY Xmas 2017

Wednesday, December 20, at San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre -- NOIR CITY XMAS. The Film Noir Foundation offers a double-feature of rare noir-stained 1940s' films to darken your yuletide spirit. At 7:30 p.m., it's Manhandled (1949) starring Dan Duryea, Dorothy Lamour, and Sterling Hayden, followed at 9:30 p.m. by Alias Boston Blackie (1942) with Chester Morris. More about the films here.

The evening will also feature the unveiling of the full program (and poster!) for NOIR CITY 16, the world's most popular film noir festival, coming to the Castro January 26 – February 4, 2018. And for your holiday shopping pleasure, NOIR CITY 16 Passports (10-day all-access festival passes for 24 movies, plus Opening Night reception) will be available for sale at our Xmas show for $120 (cash or credit card) at the FNF's merchandise table on the Castro mezzanine! As always, NOIR CITY programmer and FNF prez Eddie Muller will be your noir Noël host.

Tickets for NOIR CITY XMAS are now available online and can also be purchased at the Castro Theatre box office on the day of the show. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Noir City Hollywood

NOIR CITY: HOLLYWOOD returns to the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre this Friday, March 24 to take audiences on a 10-night trip back in time as the program replicates the movie-going experience of the classic noir era––ten double bills, each featuring a major studio "A" paired with a shorter "B" movie.

Opening night kicks off with the first cinematic pairing of Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, This Gun for Hire (1942). The "B" feature will be Quiet Please, Murder (1942) starring George Sanders and Gail Patrick. The FNF's Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode will be your hosts. There will also be a cocktail hour between the screenings, with live music, for all ticket buyers.

Some of the "A" films in the series include The Dark Corner (1946), The Accused (1948), Chicago Deadline (1949) Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and The Big Heat (1953). Among the B rarities unearthed for this festival: Address Unknown (1944), Behind Green Lights (1946), Backlash (1947), I Was a Shoplifter (1949) and the always crowd-pleasing Wicked Woman (1953), which will bring down the curtain on April 2.

The FNF's Eddie Muller will be on hand for the Friday-Sunday shows, with Alan K. Rode presenting the Monday-Thursday programs. The full schedule and program notes can be found on the American Cinematheque's website.

NOIR CITY XMAS RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO

NOIR CITY XMAS returns to San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre on Wednesday, December 14, as the Film Noir Foundation celebrates the holidays by tossing aside the Christmas treacle for a headlong dive into a double bill of danger and darkness: Quentin Lawrence's Cash on Demand (1961) at 7:30 and Harold Ramis' Ice Harvest (2005) at 9:30.

Lawrence's late-era noir Cash on Demand reimagines A Christmas Carol as a tense bank-heist thriller with Peter Cushing in the lead as a Scrooge-like bank manager in need of a Dickensian makeover. Can the machinations of a master thief (Andre Morell) wind up bringing him the Christmas spirit?

In Ramis' neo-noir Ice Harvest, mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his shifty accomplice Vic (Billy Bob Thornton) conspire to steal $2 million from Wichita's sleaziest gangster (Randy Quaid) on Christmas Eve. But as an ice storm descends on the region, Charlie's associates prove more treacherous than the forces of nature.

In addition to the yuletide noir double feature, host Eddie Muller will be revealing the complete schedule (and gorgeous new poster!) for the eagerly anticipated NOIR CITY 15 festival coming to the Castro Theatre January 20-29, 2017. Passports (full series passes) and tickets to all the festival's double features will go on sale at NoirCity.com the same evening. NC15 Passports will also be sold at NOIR CITY Xmas, along with new FNF promotional goodies, upstairs on the Castro Mezzanine. Visit the Film Noir Foundation's merchandise table during NOIR CITY Xmas for your noir-inspired gift shopping.

Tickets for NOIR CITY Xmas are only $12 for the double bill—less than the cost of a single holiday eggnog at any bar in town! Tickets are now on sale at Brown Paper Tickets. Tickets will also be available at the Castro box office the day of show.

Holiday Giving at NOIR CITY Xmas
NOIR CITY Xmas will have collection bins for both the San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program and the SF-Marin Food Bank at the event and we encourage everyone to give what they can.
 
The San Francisco Firefighters are looking for toys for kids — infants through 12-years old. Toys must be unwrapped. Their biggest need is toys for girls, ages 8 through 12. Donation suggestions: sports equipment- basketballs, footballs, soccer balls, baseballs and gloves; arts and crafts items; baby items — blankets, bottles, rattles; dolls of all nationalities and stuffed animals; iPods; books; and toy trucks. They do not accept toy guns. If you donate a game system, please include a game.
 
Here are the most needed foods for the SF-Marin Food Bank: peanut butter, low sugar cereal, whole grain rice, pasta and oats, low sodium soups and stews, tuna and canned meats, canned fruits and vegetables. Please, no glass, opened items, perishables, or items past their "use before" date.

Noir City: Austin

NOIR CITY: Austin returns to its home at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz this weekend, May 20-22, with a one-two punch of justly famous noirs and lesser-known gems awaiting discovery. Each of the seven screenings feature a double bill of 1940s films — for a total count of 14 films. FNF president Eddie Muller will be on hand throughout the entire festival to guide Austin's denizens down the blind alleys of NOIR CITY. View the festival trailer.

The festival kicks off with This Gun for Hire, notable for the first pairing of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, followed by Robert Siodmak's remarkable early B-feature Fly-By-Night. One of the highlights of the weekend-long festival is Saturday afternoon's screening of Julien Duvivier's anthology Flesh and Fantasy featuring an all-star cast, including noir favorites Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The rarely screened Destiny follows; originally shot as the first of the stories in the anthology, it was cut for running time and then developed into a stand-alone feature. Universal Studios is providing 35mm archival prints of both films, and neither is available on DVD or Blu-ray.

Visit the Alamo's website for the full schedule and to buy tickets.

 
Alamo Drafthouse & Austin Film Society present: NOIR CITY AUSTIN 2016 from Alamo Drafthouse on Vimeo.

Noir City Christmas: December 16

NOIR CITY once again offers the dark gift of film noir for the holidays.
Where? San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre
When? Wednesday, December 16
Why and What? For a fabulous double dose of Noir Noël: Max Ophüls' The Reckless Moment (1949) at 7:30 and Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death (1947) at 9:30.

Both films will screen in 35mm, and tickets for this exceptional event are only $12 for the double bill—less than the cost of a single holiday eggnog at any bar in town!

In addition to a seasonally themed double bill of vintage noir films, host Eddie Muller will be revealing the complete schedule (and scorching new poster!) for the eagerly anticipated NOIR CITY 14.

Noir City: Austin -- A Tribute to Cornell Woolrich

The second annual NOIR CITY: AUSTIN film festival will run May 8–10 at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. With the exception of the opening night feature—the newly restored Woman on the Run—the 11-film series pays tribute to noir writer Cornell Woolrich, with ten films adapted from his novels and short stories. Due to the theatre's limited seating capacity, full series passes will be available online via the Ritz only until April 21, after which only tickets to individual shows will be available for advance online purchase.

ON THE BILL: 
Street of Chance (1942), Phantom Lady (1944), Black Angel (1946), Deadline at Dawn (1946), Night Has 1000 Eyes (1948), The Guilty (1948), The Window (1949), No Man of Her Own (1950), and two newly preserved and subtitled Argentine Woolrich adaptations, Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta, 1952) and If I Die Before I Wake (Si muero antes de despertar, 1952). Film Noir Foundation president Eddie Muller will be on hand to introduce all the films in the intimate and convivial environment for which the Alamo Drafthouse is famous.

"The sun-drenched expanse of Texas may seem a far cry from the shadowy recesses and expressionistic cityscapes of classic noir," said Drafthouse programmer Tommy Swenson, "but all that open space just means more places to bury the bodies. The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz is thrilled to welcome the Film Noir Foundation back for our second annual NOIR CITY, and to pay tribute to Cornell Woolrich. The most atmospheric of all the great crime writers, Woolrich's world is one with no moral compass, a place where love and death are always inextricably linked."

NOIR CITY XMAS: San Francisco, 12/17

The Film Noir Foundation presents its 5th annual holiday show at San Francisco's majestic Castro Theatre this Wednesday, December 17, at 7p.m. In addition to a seasonally themed double bill of vintage noir-stained films, host Eddie Muller will be revealing the complete schedule (and hot new poster!) for the eagerly anticipated NOIR CITY 13 festival, coming to the Castro January 16-25, 2015! Enjoy the big-screen premiere of a new documentary showcasing the world-renowned NOIR CITY festival (you might be in it!) and catch up on gift shopping for the film noir lover in your life—including the local debut of Eddie Muller's new book, Gun Crazy: The Origin of American Outlaw Cinema. Buy tickets ahead of time for NOIR CITY Xmas at Brown Paper Tickets or at the door of the Castro the night of the show. Only $10 for both films.

Features:
O. Henry's Full House  (1952, 117 minutes)
This anthology of short stories by America's master of the ironic twist is as entertaining as it is star-studded—featuring juicy roles for Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Farley Granger, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Laughton, Jean Peters, and many more. 20th Century-Fox employed several of its most renowned directors—Henry Hathaway, Henry King, Howard Hawks, Henry Koster, and Jean Negulesco—to bring to life such famous O. Henry tales as "The Last Leaf," "The Clarion Call," and the Christmas classic, "The Gift of the Magi." Each segment introduced by John Steinbeck! (Disclaimer: Mr. Steinbeck will not be appearing in-person.)

Playing with—
The Curse of the Cat People  (1944, 70 minutes)
This sequel to 1942's The Cat People is a stunner on many levels—far from being a horror story, it's a poignant and deeply felt meditation of the pain and loneliness of childhood, and perhaps the most sublime and personal film in the career of legendary producer Val Lewton. Eight-year-old Ann Carter gives a mesmerizing performance as imaginative little Amy, with Simone Simon (the original Cat Woman) reappearing as her imaginary friend. A spellbinding classic, co-directed by Robert Wise.