NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate Film Noir! Featuring 35MM screenings presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder and host of TCM's Noir Alley, and FNF board member Alan K. Rode, author of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.
Festival Pass - $90 General Admission /$85 MBT Members
Individual (Unless Otherwise Noted) - $12 General Admission / $11 Seniors (Available at the Box Office Only) / $9 MBT Members
FLESH AND FANTASY + DESTINY Double Feature - $15 General Admission / $14 Seniors (Available at the Box Office Only) / $12 MBT Members
Saturday B-Movies - $9 General Admission / $8 Seniors (Available at the Box Office Only) / $6 MBT Members
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Previously in this Festival
711 Ocean Drive
The Horatio Alger parable receives the full-on film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmond O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves... Read more
The definitive screen version of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicling the rise and fall of politician Willie Stark was nomina... Read more
Industrialist Paul Raden (Albert Dekker) returns to his ancestral home to attend his father’s funeral. He’s shocked to learn from the family doctor (H... Read more
Harry Mitchell (William Gargan) is your typical hardboiled noir newspaper columnist, eager for a front-page scoop and willing to do anything to get it... Read more
Poverty Row auteur Lew Landers’ lurid programmer makes its NOIR CITY debut! A singularly dyspeptic Charles McGraw leads a group of steeplejacks... Read more
Sidney Kingsley’s hit Broadway play is brought to the screen with melodramatic verve by the great William Wyler. A day in the life of an N.Y.P.D. dete... Read more
This beguiling and breakneck B-picture about a crime-solving doctor on the Great White Way was intended to be the first of a series of films based on... Read more
Peter Lorre is an immigrant watchmaker whose face becomes horribly disfigured in a fire and is subsequently shunned into a life of crime. A chance rel... Read more
Opening Night Tribute to the late, great James Caan! James Caan delivers the most villainous performance of his career in this unjustly neglected noir... Read more
FLESH AND FANTASY Synopsis: One of the greatest French directors (his Pepé le Moko launched the trend in “poetic realism” that informed film noir), Du... Read more
Julien Duvivier (FLESH AND FANTASY + DESTINY), Reginald Le Borg (DESTINY)
In one of the most rarely seen adaptations of a Cornell Woolrich novel, Edward G. Robinson as a phony vaudeville mentalist who is suddenly cursed with... Read more
A New York chanteuse (Shelley Winters) attempts to wise up her from-the-country friend (Coleen Miller) to the realities of city life but matters quick... Read more
After laboring in the trenches of Monogram, director Phil Karlson established his bankable noir credentials with producer Eddie Small with this taut a... Read more
Actress Paula Marlowe (Virginia Grey) is thrilled when her attorney fiancé (Kent Taylor) helps an affluent playboy beat a manslaughter rap—since the d... Read more
San Francisco is the backdrop for one of the first Hollywood movies about a modern serial killer. Husband and wife writers Edward and Edna Anholt rese... Read more
Steven Geray, a familiar bit player in many Columbia noirs, gets a rare leading role in this clever and surprising B-film. Geray plays Henri Cassin, a... Read more
Heiress Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck), bedridden by psychosomatic symptoms, hears through crossed telephone wires of a murder being planned. She... Read more
This slam-bang crime yarn from the King Brothers (producers of 1950’s Gun Crazy) is highlighted by shot-on-location scenes in downtown L.A., Hollywood... Read more
A man loses his memory after being struck by a falling beam; as he struggles to piece his life together, he realizes he’s lived the preceding year as... Read more
Opening Night Tribute to the late, great James Caan! In this shot-in-Chicago neo-noir classic, James Caan plays an ex-con safecracker still hoping to... Read more
