NOIR CITY: Hollywood

Special guests include Annette Bening and Jennifer Tilly

NOIR CITY: Hollywood returns to the Egyptian Theatre with 23 films for eight days this month -- March 20-23 and March 27-30. The lineup of classic film noir shines a spotlight on women whose cinematic legacy is entwined with the rise of film noir. FNF president Eddie Muller and board member Alan K. Rode will share hosting duties.

Many of this year’s films star the six actresses profiled in Muller’s 2002 book Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir, which is being reissued in April 2025 in a newly revised and expanded edition. Jane Greer, Audrey Totter, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Savage, Coleen Gray, and Marie Windsor are the core cadre of women featured in this year’s program, which includes some of their signature films, including, respectively, Out of the Past (1947), Tension (1949), The Prowler (1951), Detour (1945), The Killing (1956), and Hell's Half Acre (1954).

The festival opens with a nitrate screening of Road House starring legendary actress (not to mention, director, writer, producer) Ida Lupino. In addition to the classic noir films screening this year, the festival will present four neo-noirs: The Last Seduction (1994), The Grifters (1990) featuring a Q&A with co-star Annette Bening, Destroyer (2018) featuring a Q&A with director Karyn Kusama and screenwriter Phil Hay, and Bound (1996) featuring a Q&A with co-star Jennifer Tilly.

NOIR CITY Hollywood starts tonight at the American Cinematheque! Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode in person. Opening Night Cocktail Reception - 6 pm | NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR (1952) / THE WINDOW (1949) 🎞️ - 7:30pm Tickets and schedule are available on the American Cinematheque’s website: https://bit.ly/3Ij9Mc2

NOIR CITY: Hollywood returns to the newly restored Egyptian Theatre, March 22- 31. The festival will be celebrating its 25th anniversary at the American Cinematheque with a killer lineup of twenty-three films. We will be presenting a series of double features, pairing international films with more familiar English-language ones containing similar themes. This global adventure of noir cinema comprises twelve 35mm prints (including a glorious Nitrate print of Nightmare Alley) and special guests.

Highlights include an opening night reception prior to the screening of No abras nunca esa puerta / Never Open That Door (1952, Argentina), a digital restoration performed by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding by the Film Noir Foundation. A FNF funded 35mm print of The Window (1949) follows. Both films are based on stories by the pulp fiction master Cornell Woolrich. Closing night features the West Coast premiere of the new 4K digital restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samouraï (1967).

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Highlights include opening night reception prior to the screening of our latest restoration "Never Open That Door", a nitrate screening of "Nightmare Alley" and the West Coast premiere of the new 4K digital restoration of "Le Samouraï". Introductions by Alan K. Rode and Eddie Muller. "Never Open That Door" restoration performed by UCLA Film & Television Archive.