NOIR CITY XMAS—Eddie Muller Intro to Deanna Durbin Doublebill

The Film Noir Foundation's second annual Noir City Xmas was held December 14, 2011 at San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre, offering a double-feature of rare noir-stained yuletide classics "to darken our spirits this holiday season." The evening also featured the unveiling of the full schedule for Noir City X, the 10th anniversary of the world's most popular film noir festival, coming to the Castro Theatre January 20-29, 2012.Bill Arney—the now legendary disembodied "Voice of Film Noir"—hesitated to welcome the audience to the second "annual" Noir City Xmas because "just how many Noir Cit

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Angie Dickinson, Bill Arney, Charles David, Dashiell Hammett, Deanna Durbin, Eddie Muller, Film Noir, Gene Kelly, Gore Vidal, Leslie Charteris, Noir City, Woody Bredell,

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DARK COUNTRY (2009)—On-stage Conversation With Thomas Jane and Eddie Muller

As dreadful and terrifying as Dark Country (2009) became by film's end, Eddie Muller insisted this horror-noir thriller was his type of a fun movie. With director-actor Thomas Jane joining him on-stage at the Castro Theatre for the film's one-off theatrical screening on November 18, 2011, and with their conversation being filmed (in 3D) for inclusion in the deluxe DVD release, Muller wasted no time eliciting Jane's commentary on the making of the film and tracing Dark Country's inspirations. "Was it obvious," Muller asked, "when you were finally going to direct the film that it was going to

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Eddie Muller, Film Noir, Neo Noir, Ray "3D" Zone, Thomas Jane,

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SFIFF 2011 / PSIFF 2012: THE TINIEST PLACE—The Evening Class Interview With Tatiana Huezo

I caught Tatiana Huezo's remarkable documentary The Tiniest Place (El lugar mas pequeño, 2011) at the 54th edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) and had the welcome opportunity to sit down to speak with her. The timing couldn't have been worse, however, for transcribing our conversation as I was in the middle of relocating from California to Idaho where—almost immediately—I was caught up tending to family emergencies. Several months later, I guiltily agonized over missing my initial window of opportunity; but, now, with The Tiniest Place continuing to gather accol

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PSIFF 2012, SFIFF54, Tatiana Huezo,

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