FNF Donation Drive giveaway!

For a chance to win five NOIR CITY Magazine digital back issues — #2, #16, #19, #24, #25 — sent via WeTransfer file transfer service to your email address, donate $20 or more to the FNF between now and May 1. Your name will be entered in a random drawing. Three winners will receive the issues.

And, for a donation of $50 or more, a winner in a random drawing will receive Flicker Alley’s Blu-ray/DVD releases of two FNF restorations — Too Late for Tears (1949) with Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea and Trapped with Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton. Special features produced by the FNF included on each Blu-ray/DVD.

All winners will be announced Monday, May 6, on the FNF's news page.

Everyone who donates $20 or more and signs up on our e-mail list, will automatically receive the digital version of NOIR CITY e-magazine for a year! The current issue, our 40th, is concerned exclusively with Los Angeles. We explore the city in the classic noir era and in neo-noir films from the 1960s right up to today. It's a deep dive into cold, dark waters.

Your donations help the FNF locate, restore, and exhibit films that, without our intervention, would be lost forever.

Already a NOIR CITY subscriber? We have drawings for you too!

For $20 donations: three winners in random drawings will receive five NOIR CITY Magazine digital back issues— #2, #16, #19, #24, #25— sent via WeTransfer file transfer service to their email addresses. Two separate $20 donors will receive either the Criterion release DVD of Mulholland Drive (2001) or the FNF restoration Blu-ray/DVD of Too Late for Tears (1949).

For $65 donations: one winner in a random drawing will the Criterion release Blu-ray of Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) starring Denzel Washington, Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) with Peter Lorre, a copy of Eddie Muller’s Gun Crazy: The Origin of American Outlaw Cinema, and illustrator Graham Chaffee’s To Have and To Hold from Fantagraphics.

For $120 donations, continuing the Los Angeles theme, one winner in a random drawing will receive a Blu-ray of Harper (1966) starring Paul Newman; a DVD of The Grifters (1990) with Angelica Huston, John Cusack, and Annette Bening; and the Criterion Blu-ray release of Double Indemnity (1944).  We’ll also include an FNF copy (opened) of Cutter’s Way (1981) on a double bill with the non-LA/non-noir Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) with Gloria Grahame.

For a shot at any of these goods, make your donation to the FNF between now and May 1. Your name will be entered into the random drawings for your donation amount. All winners will be announced on Monday, May 6, on the FNF’s news page.

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We hope that you will tune in tonight!

ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, April 25, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss memorable chase scenes in noir, the Lemmy Caution films, film noir pickpockets, and more. We wind up the episode giving our rideshare app ratings to some of the most memorable taxicab drivers in noir. Sorry, no cats this week.

Want your question answered in a future episode? We solicit questions from our email subscribers in our monthly newsletters. Sign up for free at https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/signup.html

Everyone who signs up on our email list and contributes $20 or more to the Film Noir Foundation receives the digital version of NOIR CITY Magazine for a year. Donate here: https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/contribute.html

Can’t join us on Thursday? No problem! A recording will be up on our YouTube channel, @NoirCity, on Friday, April 26: https://www.youtube.com/user/NoirCitySF

Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, April 25, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss memorable chase scenes in noir, the Lemmy Caution films, film noir pickpockets, and more. We wind up the episode giving our rideshare app ratings to some of the most memorable taxicab drivers in noir. Sorry, no cats this week.

Want your question answered in a future episode? We solicit questions from our email subscribers in our monthly newsletters. Sign up for free at https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/signup.html

Everyone who signs up on our email list and contributes $20 or more to the Film Noir Foundation receives the digital version of NOIR CITY Magazine for a year. Donate here: https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/contribute.html

Can’t join us on Thursday? No problem! A recording will be up on our YouTube channel, @NoirCity, on Friday, April 26: https://www.youtube.com/user/NoirCitySF

Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

TCMFF Day 4 afternoon and evening. Eddie Muller will be introducing CHINATOWN with Carl Franklin, 3:30 at TCL Chinese Theatres IMAX and THE ASPHALT JUNGLE with John Huston's son Jack Huston, TCL Multiplex, House 6, 7:45.

CHINATOWN (1974): In this critically lauded neo-noir, a private eye (Jack Nicholson) unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder and then joins his widow (Faye Dunaway) in unearthing the corruption behind the crime in this physically beautiful but emotionally bleak neo-noir set in a morally bankrupt 1930s Los Angeles. Dir. Roman Polanski

THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950): A hoodlum and ex-con (Sterling Hayden) hopes for one last big score that will enable him to go home to his farm in Kentucky. He falls in with a gang of small-time crooks plotting an elaborate jewel heist. Of course, you can never go home again. A young Marilyn Monroe plays a small but juicy part. The film was nominated for four Oscars including a Best Supporting Actor nod for Sam Jaffe as the mastermind undone by his passion for beautiful girls. Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. Dir. John Huston

#TCMFF Day 4 morning screenings. Eddie Muller will introduce DOUBLE INDEMNITY with Fred MacMurray's daughter Kath MacMurrary, TCL Chinese Theatres IMAX, 9:00. Also for the criminally minded, MURDER, SHE SAID, the first of the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford, TCL Multiplex, House 4, 9:15 Plus a repeat of THE BIG HEAT, Multiplex, House 6, 11:45.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944): Barbara Stanwyck—in a platinum blonde wig—plays Phyllis Dietrichson—the consummate femme fatale who lures insurance salesman and all-around chump Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) into a plot involving murder and insurance fraud. His friend, and insurance adjuster, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) smells a rat. Nominated for seven Oscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Best Director; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Picture; Best Sound, Recording; and Best Writing, Screenplay. Dir. Billy Wilder

MURDER SHE SAID (1961): When nobody believes she witnessed a murder, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) investigates herself along with her friend Jim Stringer, played by Rutherford’s husband Stinger Davis. Based on Agatha Christie’s "4:50 from Paddington". Trivia: Joan Dixon has a small part in the film and would go on to become the definitive Miss Marple in the BBC series that aired from 1984-1992. Dir. George Pollock

THE BIG HEAT (1953): In this seminal noir, a police detective (Glenn Ford) whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a gangster's moll (Gloria Grahame) to bring down a powerful racketeer (Alexander Scourby). Lee Marvin steals the film as Grahame’s abusive boyfriend and eventual object of her revenge. Dir. Fritz Lang

THE BIG HEAT will screen a second time tomorrow at #TCMFF. 11:45 AM at the TCL Chinese Theatres Multiplex, House 6.

TCMFF Day 3 Dana Delaney and Eddie Muller will be introducing THE BIG HEAT, 12:15 pm at TCL Multiplex House 6. Ms. Delaney wrote an article about Gloria Grahame for Noir City Magazine. You can buy a print copy: https://bit.ly/4b3r21c or a digital copy: https://bit.ly/3xI6Mnz

THE BIG HEAT (1953): In this seminal noir, a police detective (Glenn Ford) whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a gangster's moll (Gloria Grahame) to bring down a powerful racketeer (Alexander Scourby). Lee Marvin steals the film as Grahame’s abusive boyfriend and eventual object of her revenge. Dir. Fritz Lang

TCMFF Day 3 Dana Delaney and Eddie Muller will be introducing THE BIG HEAT, 12:15 pm at TCL Multiplex House 6. Ms. Delaney wrote an article about Gloria Grahame for Noir City Magazine. You can buy a print copy: https://bit.ly/4b3r21c or a digital copy: https://bit.ly/3xI6Mnz

THE BIG HEAT (1953): In this seminal noir, a police detective (Glenn Ford) whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a gangster's moll (Gloria Grahame) to bring down a powerful racketeer (Alexander Scourby). Lee Marvin steals the film as Grahame’s abusive boyfriend and eventual object of her revenge. Dir. Fritz Lang

#TCMFF Day 3 First Morning Screenings Decisions, decisions. Eddie Muller interviewing Andy Robinson prior to DIRTY HARRY, 9:30 at TCL Chinese Theatres Multiplex House 6 OR a nitrate screening of NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES, introduced by Alan K. Rode 9:00 at American Cinematheque Egyptian? NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES (1948): Edward G. Robinson stars as John Triton, a phony vaudeville mentalist who is one day cursed with the actual ability to predict the future. Gail Russell is the heiress who seems doomed by Triton’s vision of her death. Or is it a scheme to steal her impending inheritance? John Farrow, a director at his most stylish in noir terrain, adapts from the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich. In typical Woolrich fashion, the film careens from one revelation to another, dishing out info that forces the viewer to reconsider everything that’s come before it. Though many have tried, few films have been as effective at capturing the author’s sense of doomed predestination. Dir. John Farrow

TCMFF Day 2

Two neo-noirs today at Grauman’s Chinese, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS with special guest Jodie Foster, 2:15 PM and SE7EN with Eddie Muller and David Fincher in conversation, 9:45 PM. Eddie will also introduce REAR WINDOW, 6:15 PM at @am_cinematheque Egyptian as well as THE BELLBOY with star Jerry Lewis’ son Chris Lewis at the @chinesetheatres Multiplex, House 6, 8:45 PM.

REAR WINDOW

(1954):  A wheelchair-bound photographer passes the time of his disability by spying on his neighbors. One day he witnesses a murder. Or does he? This iconic mystery was adapted from a story by Cornell Woolrich and earned a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar nomination for screenwriter John Michael Hayes. The film earned three more Oscar nods for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Color and Best Sound, Recording. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

PLUS

The criminally minded may also enjoy the three prison films playing today, all at TCL Multiplex, House 4, Raoul Walsh’s THE BIG HOUSE, 3 PM; John Ford’s THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND, intro by Keith Carradine, 6 PM;  JAILHOUSE ROCK starring Elvis, 9 PM, intro by Allison Anders.

TCMFF Day One

Opening night of TCMFF includes a healthy dose of crime. The gala event will be PULP FICTION (1994), 6:30 PM at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, with John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Harvey Keitel in conversation. FNF prez Eddie Muller will introduce Raoul Walsh’s WHITE HEAT (1949) at American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre, 7:00 PM. On the lighter side, CLUE will play poolside at The Hollywood Roosevelt , 7:30 PM with Lesley Ann Warren in attendance.

The second round of screenings include Richard Brooks IN COLD BLOOD (1967), introduced by producer Michael Uslan, 9:30 at the TCL Chinese Theatres Multiplex, House 1 and the world premiere restoration of GAMBIT (1966), introduced by writer and film historian Sloan DeForrest.

WHITE HEAT

(1949): “Top of the world, Ma!” A G-man (Edmond O'Brien) infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic, James Cagney in a standout performance. This film marks the cinematic movement away from the traditional Warner Brothers’ portrayal of the gangster to the more cynical and psychological film noir interpretation. Virginia Kellogg garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story for the film. Pointless trivia: Naked Gun 33 1/3 borrowed the plot. Dir. Raoul Walsh

IN COLD BLOOD

(1967) Bleak adaptation of Truman Capote’s groundbreaking true crime book. Two men (Robert Blake and Scott Wilson) brutally murder a small-town Kansas family, thinking that ten thousand dollars is hidden in the house. They flee with the forty-three dollars that they actually found, and the FBI hunts them. Dir. Richard Brooks

New ASK EDDIE!

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”, classic era TV noir, color noir, the multi-talented Ida Lupino, and more. Plus, we discuss the first film noir we saw and end the show with a round on “Neo-noir or Not?”. On the cat front, Charlotte takes center stage.

Want your question answered in a future episode? We solicit questions from our email subscribers in our monthly newsletters. Sign up for free at https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/signup.html

Everyone who signs up on our email list and contributes $20 or more to the Film Noir Foundation receives the digital version of NOIR CITY Magazine for a year. Donate here: https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/contribute.html

ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, April 11, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”, classic era TV noir, color noir, the multitalented Ida Lupino, and more. Plus, we discuss the first film noir we saw and end the show with a round on “Neo-noir or Not?”. On the cat front, Charlotte takes center stage.

Want your question answered in a future episode? We solicit questions from our email subscribers in our monthly newsletters. Sign up for free at https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/signup.html

Everyone who signs up on our email list and contributes $20 or more to the Film Noir Foundation receives the digital version of NOIR CITY Magazine for a year. Donate here: https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/contribute.html

Can’t join us on Thursday? No problem! A recording will be up on our YouTube channel, @NoirCity, on Friday, April 12: https://www.youtube.com/user/NoirCitySF

Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

Picturehouse 441 is hosting a live virtual Q&A on A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE with Viggo Mortensen tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4 at 3PM ET/12PM PT. Use the FNF promo code AHOV441 at checkout! Tickets available at https://bit.ly/3J3rbWz

NOIR CITY Hollywood photos, courtesy of our friend Doug Grieve. Don't miss our closing night presentation of the 4K restoration of LE SAMOURAÏ, 7:30 PM tonight at the American Cinematheque. Introduction by Eddie Muller.

Tix: https://bit.ly/4cxdBsd

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Picturehouse 441 is hosting a live virtual Q&A on A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE with Viggo Mortensen on Wednesday, April 4 at 3PM ET/12PM PT. Use the FNF promo code AHOV441 at checkout! Ticket Link: https://www.picturehouse441.com/event/ahistoryofviolence