Film Noir & Neo Noir News
NOIR CITY: Portland tickets and Passes now on sale!
FNF prez Eddie Muller returns to Portland’s Hollywood Theatre Friday—Sunday, August 21—23, for NOIR CITY: Portland, a weekend-long festival of both classic and obscure noir films from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
The festival includes a conversation with Eddie about this year’s program lineup plus a book signing for several of Eddie’s recent titles. This year’s film programming centers around musicians and includes the FNF-funded restoration of The Yellow Canary (1963).
The full program schedule and tickets for individual screenings are available on the Hollywood Theatre’s website.
CONFIRMED 2026 NOIR CITY DATES
NOIR CITY: Portland: Aug 21-23
Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
NOIR CITY: Chicago: Sep 4-10
Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL
NOIR CITY: Detroit: Sep 18-20
Redford Theatre, Detroit, MI
NOIR CITY: D.C.: Oct 8-22
AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center
Silver Spring, MD
NOIR CITY: Philadelphia: Nov 13-15
Ambler Theater, Ambler, PA
NOIR CITY Xmas 2026: Dec 16
Grand Lake Theatre, Oakland, CA
Newest FNF restoration available
Preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and now beautifully restored through the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) is a significant example of the cross-cultural cinematic legacy shared by the United States and Argentina during the post-WWII era. Based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction Cornell Woolrich, the film is brilliantly directed by Argentine filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen with extraordinary cinematography by Pablo Tabernero. ORDER YOUR COPY
Says FNF founder Eddie Muller about this recent restoration, “It is a revelation to experience the work of an all-American author, in Spanish, and rendered as well – or perhaps better – than any Hollywood adaptation of his work.” + READ MORE
Czar of Noir's Dark City available
The revised and expanded edition of FNF prez and Noir Alley host Eddie Muller's Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir is now available for purchase from the TCM Shop or your favorite bookseller. + READ MORE
Blu‑ray/DVD of FNF restoration available
Argentine director Román Viñoly Barreto's El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is available from Flicker Alley in a deluxe Blu‑ray/DVD edition. A virtually unknown remake of Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriller M, this 1953 Argentine noir is a female-centered take on the tale. + READ MORE
Ask Eddie anything!
Did you know that The Film Noir Foundation regularly livestreams on our Facebook page in which Eddie Muller answers questions submitted by our e‑mail subscribers? All previous broadcasts are available on our YouTube broadcast archives page.
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The latest ASK EDDIE broadcast on Facebook on July 9 and on YouTube the following day.
NOIR CITY Chicago returns to the Music Box
From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present "Face the Music!", a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From early examples of Hollywood noir like Blues in the Night (1941) to jazz-fueled sixties’ gems like A Man Called Adam (1966), the movies feature genuine musical legends like Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr., Hoagy Carmichael, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, and Dexter Gordon performing alongside film noir favorites including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Dan Duryea, Linda Darnell, and Rita Hayworth.
This year’s film programming includes the FNF-funded restoration of The Yellow Canary (1963), two rarely screen Brit noirs, Terence Fisher’s Face the Music (1954) and Basil Dearden’s All Night Long (1962) featuring Patrick McGoohan as the wily antagonist. Other highlights include Dan Duryea in a rare sympathetic role in Roy William Neil’s Black Angel (1946), based on the Cornell Woolrich novel and Jack Webb’s love letter to jazz, Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) featuring legendary singer Peggy Lee in an Oscar nominated supporting role.
Screenings on September 4 - 6 will be hosted by FNF prez Eddie Muller. Screenings on September 7 - 10 will be hosted by FNF board member Alan K. Rode, author of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.
Schedule, passes and tickets are available on the Music Box Theatre website.
Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir
In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—FNF founder and Turner Classic Movies host—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text, photos, and ten new star profiles.
In Dark City Dames, acclaimed film historian Eddie Muller takes readers into the world of six women who made a lasting impression in this cinematic terrain—from veteran “bad girls” Audrey Totter, Marie Windsor, and Jane Greer to unexpected genre fixtures Evelyn Keyes, Coleen Gray, and Ann Savage. The book provides in-depth profiles of these formidable women during the height of their careers, circa 1950, as they balanced love and career, struggled against typecasting, and sought fulfillment in a ruthless business. Their personal stories—teeming with larger-than-life characters like Howard Hughes, Louis B. Mayer, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger, and John Huston—offer a fascinating counterpoint to their movies. Then, Dark City Dames revisits each woman fifty years later to witness their hard-won—and triumphant—survival. On every page their own voices ring through, reflecting on their lives with as much passion, pain, intelligence, energy, and humor as any movie script. Muller conducted far-ranging interviews with the original six women profiled in Dark City Dames, in the process becoming a friend and confidante to each.
In this revised and expanded edition, he updates their stories and shares illuminating, never-before-told memories of his time with them. This edition also includes compelling new profiles of ten additional women who left an indelible mark on film noir, including Joan Bennett, Gail Russell, Rhonda Fleming, and Claire Trevor—all packaged in a stunning redesign that offers the ultimate look at performers who helped define a still-resonant and inspiring epoch of Hollywood history.
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