on 7/17/2024, 10:06 pm
But such is not the case: it's really just six films and a seventh event, a combo conversation with Eddie and a book signing. (One has to go to the theater's schedule page to obtain these details.) One of those "events" is a Friday evening reception before the opening night screening, which has a separate cover charge...perhaps this is more of a way to pad the Hollywood Theatre's receipts than to line the FNF's pockets? (Book signings in the major cities have never taken this approach, and it's not a trend that meets with our approval...)
Thus it's a rather bare bones "festival" with just a smidge of the 2024 theme ("darkness has no borders"), more like a film noir festival with training wheels. Here's the schedule:
Fri 7/19 GILDA (after the reception...)
Sat 7/20 Combo convo/book signing with Eddie, then...
THE WINDOW/NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR/NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES
Sun 7/21 THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF/IN A LONELV PLACE
A festival pass of $50 provides access to all films and events, which is probably a better price than buying individual tickets. (I suspect the booze at the reception isn't free, though, and there might be some social pressure to purchase a book at that event...but--you don't actually have to show up for those!)
We get the Woolrich connection for Saturday, but the Sunday "double feature" is downright baffling. Perhaps THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF is just another way to showcase the FNF's restoration mission; in the interview Eddie gave for the festival, he complains bitterly about having the FNF's restoration work pirated on to YouTube, a phenomenon he attributes to the vagaries of the digital age. In the case of THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF, it appears that a plethora of folk are getting in on the act: I count no fewer than five versions on YouTube at this time (though only one of them appears to be taken from the UCLA/FNF restoration.
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