If you prefer to get your noir fix from the big screen, there are a few film noir events coming up this month and in July to mark on your calendar:
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a festival starting today. Titled Rialto's Best of British Noir, four films from Rialto Pictures are offered up: John Boulting's Brighton Rock, starring Richard Attenborough; Michael Powell's Peeping Tom; and two collaborations between director Carol Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene, The Fallen Idol,
starring Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan, and The Third Man, with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.
The Carolina Theater in Durham presents the Crime Noir Film Series June 11-17, featuring a rotation of four movies: The Third Man again; Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique; Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows; and the most recent of the bunch, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva from 1981.
The annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival is winding down, but there's still time to catch the last event on Sunday, June 16th, with a lineup including Ocean Drive, Cry of the City and Drive a Crooked Road.
Coming up in July, the Siff Theater in Seattle is the home for Noir City, which will feature 14 noir films (7 consecutive nights of double features) hosted by Eddie Muller, founder of the Film Noir Foundation and the man James Ellroy dubbed "The Czar of Noir."
Comments