FRIDAY, MAY 5—MONDAY, MAY 8
A RARE NOIR IS GOOD TO FIND 2 - OPENS WITH A BANG ON FRIDAY, MAY 5
Fans of MidCentury Productions & film noir, take note: you can still buy a $45 festival pass at the subscriber-only link below for Don Malcolm's latest noir extravaganza that opens Friday night, May 5th at San Francisco's Roxie Theatre—twelve incredible films noirs from eleven countries over four dark days and nights.
Pitting ten noirs unseen in the USA for decades against two bona fide classics (
ODD MAN OUT, playing Saturday evening May 6, and
BITTER RICE, screening Sunday evening May 7), Malcolm demonstrates the ubiquity and the range of film noir as it traces what he calls "the cultural PTSD of the post-WWII world."
Come see the incendiary (
CASH CALLS HELL, from Japan), the histrionic (Friday night's double bill of
CAIRO STATION, from Egypt, and
THE ROAD TO HELL from Mexico), the paranoidly apocalyptic (
KRAKATIT, from Czechoslovakia), the tensely astringent (Saturday's matinee of
IN THE NAME OF THE LAW) and
MADNESS RULES), the psychologically perverse (Korea's
THE HOUSEMAID and Brazil's
STRANGE ENCOUNTER), the morbidly self-destructive (Poland's
THE NOOSE) and the darkly lyrical (Belgium's one-of-a-kind
SEAGULLS ARE DYING IN THE HARBOR).
If you've found Don's FRENCH NOIR series fascinating, you will be simply stunned by what he's got in store for you in this latest incarnation of his "round-the-world" series—where desperation has never been so compellingly concentrated.