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NOIR CITY 11: TRY AND GET ME! (aka, THE SOUND OF FURY, 1951)—Eddie Muller...
Eddie Muller introduced Try and Get Me! (aka The Sound of Fury, 1951) as an extraordinary production based on a true story with a local angle, namely an infamous incident that took place in 1934 in San...
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NOIR CITY 11: HELL DRIVERS (1957)—Filmprogramme
Underscoring the international reach of film noir, here's a lovely set of German images for Hell Drivers (Duell am Steuer), courtesy of one of my favorite film blogs Filmprogramme.
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NOIR CITY 11: REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947)—Alan K. Rode Introduction
In his introduction to a double bill of "showbiz noir", Alan K. Rode stated that those in the audience who were habituers of Noir City would recall that Repeat Performance (1947) screened at the...
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NOIR CITY 11: SUNSET BLVD. (1950)—Eddie Muller Introduction
"The theme of today's screenings is 'showbiz noir'," announced Bill Arney, the Voice of Noir City. "And as someone with their own television show Cheese Theatre every Saturday night at 10:00pm on...
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NOIR CITY 11: A HOUSE DIVIDED (1931) / THE KISS BEFORE THE MIRROR (1933) /...
"Time travel is our specialty here at Noir City," Bill Arney—the "Voice of Noir City"—announced to his murmuring Monday night audience. "We usually set the dial on the Way Back Machine to take us 50-60...
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SF INDIEFEST 2013—Michael Hawley Previews the Line-up
The San Francisco Independent Film Festival, a.k.a. SF Indiefest, celebrates its 15th birthday this year and has appropriately dubbed the occasion, ¡Fiesta Quinceañera! Running from February 7 to 21...
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SKETCHFEST 2013: WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (1995)—The Evening Class Interview...
There's no question in my mind that Joshua Grannell and his onstage persona Peaches Christ—and the village that has helped create him—have had much to do with popularizing drag art entertainment and...
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NOIR CITY 11: NATIVE SON (1951)—Eddie Muller Introduction
Nicknaming Noir's City's first program of African American Noir as "Noir Noir", Bill Arney—The "Voice of Noir City"—then introduced Eddie Muller who, in turn, offered a short film clip to help...
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NOIR CITY 11: INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949)—Claude Jarman, Jr. Introduction
In Noir City's glossy souvenir program, Eddie Muller synopsizes: "Nobel prize winner William Faulkner's 1948 novel is a high-minded piece of crime fiction, written as an atonement for the mistreatment...
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NOIR CITY 11: THE SNIPER (1952)—Eddie Muller Introduction
Introducing the first of two "San Francisco Noir" films, Eddie Muller recalled that Noir City screened The Sniper (1952) at their first festival back in 2003, but was delighted to bring this...
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NOIR CITY 11: EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (1962)—Eddie Muller Introduction
To introduce the world premiere of the brand-new 4K digital restoration of Experiment in Terror (1962), Eddie Muller expressed his gratitude to Sony Pictures. "You've heard my rap all along about the...
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