2025 Noir City Hollywood Festival Schedule Announced
The Noir City Hollywood Festival, presented by the Film Noir Foundation and the American Cinematheque, returns to the Egyptian Theatre in March 2025.The festival will open on Thursday, March 20th, with a nitrate screening of ROAD HOUSE (1948).
As usual, Noir City Hollywood will be hosted by the Film Noir Foundation's Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode.
Movies will be screened Thursday through Sunday on two long weekends, the 20th through the 23rd and the 27th through 30th.
With the exception of opening night, there will be double bills screened each of the festival's eight evenings, along with single-film matinees at 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
The festival will also include single-film screenings of relatively recent "neo-noir" films on the weekends at 4:00 p.m.
I plan to attend on the first seven evenings, only missing the final Sunday night.
I've listed the complete schedule below, including the screening format of each film. Click on any hyperlinked title to read my full-length review.
Please check the American Cinematheque website for each day's exact screening times and additional information.
March 20th: ROAD HOUSE (1948) (35mm nitrate) (I was fortunate to see this print previously at UCLA in 2017...but I'm going again!)
March 22nd: FLAMINGO ROAD (1949) (35mm) (A second review of the film, as seen on Blu-ray, is here.)
THE LAST SEDUCTION (1994) (35mm)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947) (35mm) and THE KILLING (1956) (DCP)
March 23rd: THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946) (DCP) (An additional Blu-ray review is here.)
THE GRIFTERS (1990) (35mm)
TENSION (1949) (35mm) and ALIAS NICK BEAL (1949) (35mm) (Plus an extra ALIAS NICK BEAL Blu-ray review is here.)
March 27th: PHANTOM LADY (1944) (DCP) and THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949) (DCP)
March 28th: THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944) (35mm) and MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) (35mm)
DESTROYER (2018) (DCP)
CRY DANGER (1951) (35mm) and HELL'S HALF ACRE (1954) (35mm)
March 30th: DEAD RECKONING (1946) (DCP)
BOUND (1996) (DCP)
THE PROWLER (1951) (35mm) and ACE IN THE HOLE (1951) (35mm)
To purchase tickets, please visit the American Cinematheque website.
posted by Laura @ 8:50 PM
2 Comments:
I DO wish these Noir Fests would not concentrate so much on the usual suspects and include more Poverty Row gems. Now Warner Archive are releasing Monogram films on Blu Ray I hope at last I will be able to see FORGOTTEN WOMEN (1949) and SIDESHOW (1950) I've seen a rough copy of the latter and it's very good indeed. The one big surprise here is MY TRUE STORY which the producers hoped would revive Helen Walker's career. MIckey Rooney does a decent directing job here and even gets a charming performance from the normally gruff and surly Willard Parker.
MY TRUE STORY was such a nice surprise to see on the list, John! I'm looking forward to it very much.
Noir City sometimes comes through with more obscure titles (MARY RYAN, DETECTIVE), but I suspect it's a balancing act between prints the studios will make available and also needing to appeal to large audiences.
Happily my friend Jeremy Arnold is currently occasionally showing "B" movies (not necessarily noir) on Sundays at the Los Feliz Theatre - next weekend it's the crime film THE CRIMSON CANARY (1945) which he's also shown at a past TCM Fest.
Always great to hear from you!
Best wishes,
Laura
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