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Film Noir City: Lust and Larceny Opens Tonight at SIFF Cinema
Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM
SIFF Cinema's Noir City series starts tonight, with a double feature of Larceny and Pitfall. Sean Axmaker wrote a great overview (including an interview with the series's programmer, Eddie Muller) and he lays out your best bets:
The series opens on Friday with Pitfall, a startlingly, uncompromisingly adult drama of adultery in a middle-class marriage. Pitfall was produced by and stars Dick Powell, one of the most understated of noir's leading men, and directed by André De Toth, whose legacy of hard-edged dramas in all genres is still often overlooked. The film makes a matched set with Saturday's screening of Cry Danger, another Powell production that the Film Noir Foundation (the nonprofit group that produces Noir City) has just restored, and a bookend to Slattery's Hurricane, which closes the festival on Thursday.
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