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NOIR CITY 6: CHARLES McGRAW: BIOGRAPHY OF A FILM NOIR TOUGH GUYThe Evening Class Interview With Alan K. Rode

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2008-01-23 21:31:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Noir City is on its way this week and I'm starting out my coverage with an interview with author Alan K. Rode I met Alan at last year's Noir City Film Festival where I discovered thatalong with "Czar of Noir" Eddie Mullerhe was one of the key forces behind the Film Noir Foundation and the festival proper. During the course of our...
 
 
 
 
 
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NOIR CITY 6Eddie Muller Intro to 20th Century Fox Doublebill: Hangover Square and Dangerous Crossing

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2008-01-31 11:41:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Noir City for the San Francisco Bay Guardian is some of his most elegant writing to date and a seminal read to grasp one of the main undercurrents in this year's program lineup. Astutely entitled "Noir or Not?", Matt's overview discerns: "Perhaps more than past incarnations, Noir City 6 makes a case for film noir as a set of stylistic...
 
 
 
 
 
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NOIR CITY 6Lineup

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2007-12-11 16:59:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Noir festival on earth returns to darken the Bay City and delight the most dedicated moviegoers in the world on January 25 through February 3, 2008 at San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre. Presented by the Film Noir Foundation , whose mission is to "rescue and restore America's noir heritage," this year's festival continues its tradition...
 
 
 
 
 
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STREETS OF NO RETURN: THE DARK CINEMA OF DAVID GOODIS: THE UNFAITHFULIntroductory Remarks By Steve Seid and Noir Historian Dan Hodges

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2008-08-04 12:00:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...noir, whose work will be included in the forthcoming 4th Edition of Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style . Hodges is also a key figure in the San Franciscan film noir salon The Danger & Despair Knitting Circle Hodges remarked on Vincent Sherman's The Unfaithful (1947) by reading prepared notes: " The wind steps through...
 
 
 
 
 
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NOIR CITY 6Eddie Muller Intro to the "Dames Tough As Nails" Double Bill: A Woman In Hiding and Jeopardy

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2008-01-30 12:46:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...noir exotica" poster for Noir City 6, Eddie Muller announced that the dress worn by the poster's "dragon lady" will be raffled off Friday night to raise further funds for the Film Noir Foundation and future noir restorations. "This is how we restore films at Noir City," Muller quipped, "We raffle off a woman's dress. Who needs all this...
 
 
 
 
 
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NOIR CITY 6Eddie Muller Introductory Remarks

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2008-01-26 12:27:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
Noir City always launches off with the deepthroated disembodied voice of Master of Ceremonies William Arney setting the mood over the sound system, putting a little muscle into the usual admonitions regarding cellulars and blackberries: "You have been warned ." You get the feeling that if you violate these basic rules of movie watching...
 
 
 
 
 
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New DVDs: Fox Film Noir takes a hike

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2008-03-14 03:50:50 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...noir in Cinemascope? Yes and no, but what an oxymoron The mostly reliable Fox Film Noir series seems to be running low on shadows-and-light, based on the latest trio of releases. None fits the classic profile of films noir, but all three exhibit some of the genre's spirit and atmospherics Black Widow, " the best of the lot, is a murder...
 
 
 
 
 
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New DVDs: Fox Film Noir takes a hike

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2008-03-14 03:50:50 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...noir in Cinemascope? Yes and no, but what an oxymoron The mostly reliable Fox Film Noir series seems to be running low on shadows-and-light, based on the latest trio of releases. None fits the classic profile of films noir, but all three exhibit some of the genre's spirit and atmospherics Black Widow, " the best of the lot, is a murder...
 
 
 
 
 
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NOIR CITY 6The Evening Class Interview With Editor Megan Abbot and a Handful of Writers from A Hell Of A Woman

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2008-01-27 12:51:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Noir City's book signing for A Hell Of A Woman (Busted Flush Press, 2007) to speak to "Queenpin" Megan Abbotthe anthology's editorand to several of the contributors to the volume In her introduction to the anthology, Megan Abbot explains: "The women in these pages are climbers, dreamers, hustlers, holders of secret truths tucked close to...