NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box this September!
Under the banner, "Darkness Has No Borders" this year’s NOIR CITY festival features thematically linked double bills pairing foreign language films with movies made in the United States and United Kingdom.
NOIR CITY honcho and FNF president Eddie Muller, familiar to a national audience as the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), credits preservation efforts by film archives worldwide, and the advent of digital distribution, as the reason "we're now able to recognize the global scope of film noir." At this year's NOIR CITY, he notes, audiences will experience familiar noir tales … but many will be from Argentina, Egypt, France, Mexico, Italy and Japan presented alongside English-language offerings. "Some are cultural one-offs," he explains, "like the 1958 Egyptian offering Cairo Station (shown with the 1950 Paramount thriller Union Station), while others are examples of noir from countries with a dark wellspring of films still waiting to be discovered." The 18-film program of thematically linked double bills includes heists, prison breaks, missing persons, cultural alienation, love triangles, and lots of plain old-fashioned murder.
Screenings from Friday, September 6th-Sunday, September 8th will be hosted by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder and host of TCM's Noir Alley.
Screenings on Monday, September 9th-Thursday, September 12th will be presented by FNF board member Alan K. Rode, author of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.
Festival Pricing
Series Pass - $125 GA / $100 Music Box Members (Grants admission into all screenings in NOIR CITY: CHICAGO 2024)
Individual Screenings - $12.50 GA / $11.50 Senior (Available at the Box Office Only) / $10 Music Box Members
3D Screenings - $18 GA / $17 Seniors (Available at the Box Office Only) / $15 Music Box Members
Previously in this Festival
