Rated: M    Runtime: 90 mins.
TWENTY-TWO GEMS FROM THE VAULTS OF COLUMBIA PICTURES! ALL SHOWN IN BEAUTIFUL 35MM ARCHIVE PRINTS!

Thurs., Sept.17 - Wed., Sept 30!
(see schedule below)

FILM NOIR returns to San Francisco’s Roxie Theater with a vengeance! This past May, audiences were treated to two full weeks of rare B noirs as part of the “I Wake Up Dreaming” festival which only seemed to remind everyone that The Roxie is THE place to be for classic, high quality FILM NOIR.

Now, in answer to the huge demand from noir enthusiasts all over the Bay Area, Elliot Lavine has programmed a stupendous thirteen-day fest of noir classics and curios from the famed vaults of Columbia Pictures. A total of twenty-two great films—all presented in beautiful 35mm studio vault prints---and none currently available on DVD.

For 13 days, from Thursday, September 17 - Wednesday, September 30 (no program Wednesday, September 23), audiences will thrill to the works of such esteemed directors as Nicholas Ray (KNOCK ON ANY DOOR), Jacques Tourneur (NIGHTFALL), Fritz Lang (HUMAN DESIRE), Don Siegel (THE LINE UP), Joseph H. Lewis (MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS and SO DARK THE NIGHT), Samuel Fuller (THE CRIMSON KIMONO), Robert Rossen (JOHNNY O’CLOCK), Irving Lerner (MURDER BY CONTRACT and CITY OF FEAR) and many more!

Many of Columbia’s higher profile noirs have sadly slipped through the cracks due to scant or non-existent VHS or DVD versions. Major directors like Fuller, Ray and Siegel are woefully under-represented in this way and odd-ball gems like Richard Quine’s steamy PUSHOVER (1954) with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak---Paul Wendkos’ THE BURGLAR (1957), the remarkably strange and dark film from the novel by David Goodis starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield---an early film from William Castle, THE WHISTLER (1944)---and Will Jason’s stylish and disturbing horror-noir hybrid SOUL OF A MONSTER (1944) are rarely shown anywhere.

Double Feature Admission : $11.00

Buy a NOIR PASS NOW on Ticket Web. Passes will also be available for purchase soon at the Roxie box office. A pass provides one admission to each double feature program for just $85.00!

"Columbia figures large in the film noir annals" - Dennis Harvey, sf360

Schedule
Thursday, September 17:
JOHNNY O’CLOCK (1947)
BLIND SPOT (1947)

Friday, Sept, 18:
THE WHISTLER (1944)
THE SOUL OF A MONSTER (1944)

Saturday, Sept 19:
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949)
CONVICTED (1950)

Sunday, Sept. 20:
PUSHOVER (1954)
DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD (1954)

Monday, Sept 21:
SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946)
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)

Tuesday, Sept 22:
HUMAN DESIRE (1954)
FRAMED (1947)

Thursday, Sept 24:
THE LINE UP (1958)
THE SNIPER (1952)

Friday, Sept 25:
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN (1950)
THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK (1950)

Saturday, Sept 26:
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959)
SCREAMING MIMI (1958)

Sunday & Monday, Sept 27 & 28:
THE BURGLAR (1957)
NIGHTFALL (1957)

Tuesday & Wednesday, Sept 29 & 30:
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958)
CITY OF FEAR (1959)