Can you tell what's missing?

FRI FEB 14
6:30pm - The Narrow Margin (35mm) Windsor
8:45pm - Hell's Half Acre (35mm) Keyes, Windsor

SAT FEB 15
12:30pm - The Sleeping City (35mm) Gray
3:00pm - Mary Ryan, Detective (35mm) Hunt
6:00pm - Out of the Past (35mm) Greer, Fleming
8:45pm - Cry Danger (35mm) Fleming

SUN FEB 16
12:30pm - Tension (35mm) Totter
3:00pm - Alias Nick Beal (35mm) Totter
6:00pm - Caged (35mm) Parker
8:45pm - 99 River Street (35mm) Keyes, Castle

MON FEB 17
6:00pm - Murder, My Sweet (35mm) Trevor
8:45pm - My True Story (35mm) Walker

TUE FEB 18
6:00pm - Raw Deal Hunt, Trevor
8:30pm - The Killing Windsor, Gray

WED FEB 19
6:00pm - Detour Savage
8:30pm - Phantom Lady Raines

THU FEB 20
6:00pm - The Long Wait Castle
8:30pm - Ace in the Hole Sterling

Give up? Don't care? That's OK, you know we live for this stuff...

Here are the films left out:

KISS OF DEATH
THE RECKLESS MOMENT
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY
INFERNO
THE PROWLER

So Joan Bennett and Ruth Roman have been left on the cutting room floor, and four of the best films in the Oakland series have been left at home.

And the two best double-bills in the almost-totally reshuffled screening order (RAW DEAL & THE KILLING, DETOUR/PHANTOM LADY) will play on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. I think either one of those would make for a stronger opening night show than NARROW MARGIN/HELL'S HALF ACRE, which would work best as a closing night double feature (always leave your audience surrounded by palm trees!!)

We await something different in LA, where some amount of deference to the Alan Rode school of programming can be expected, and in the shorter satellite festivals. There is no question that you could boil this down to a terrific 10-12 film festival, but will they? Stay tuned...