The latest edition of the Film Noir Foundation's Noir City e-magazine is out and, along with major features on Dan Duryea and Peter Lorre, it brings news of Noir City XII, the FNFs annual film noir festival in San Francisco.
Olga Zubarry
The festival will again take place at San Francisco's movie palace, the Castro Theatre, and run from January 24 - February 2. The festival theme for 2014 is "It's a Bitter Little World" and it will spotlight classic film noir from around the world: France, Mexico, Japan, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Norway and Great Britain as well, of course, as the good old U.S.A. 27 films will screen and two from Argentina will be making their theatrical debut in the U.S.: No abras nunca esa puerta/Never Open That Door (1952), an anthology adapted from stories by Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window, Deadline at Dawn, The Window, Mississippi Mermaid) and El vampiro negro/The Black Vampire (1953), a remake of Fritz Lang's M starring "The Argentine Marilyn Monroe," Olga Zubarry. Both are newly restored and subtitled 35mm prints.The full schedule for Noir City XII will be released as part of the FNF's 4th annual Noir City Xmas, a double feature event set for next Wednesday night, December 18 at the Castro Theatre. Blast of Silence (1961) and Christmas Eve (1947) will be shown at Noir City Xmas.
The San Francisco festival kicks off the Noir City season, with "satellite" festivals to follow later in the year in Seattle, Austin, L.A., Chicago, Portland (OR) and Washington, D.C.
For information on Noir City and Nor City Xmas, click here.
