Covering four decades and containing the usual twisty dollop of genre-bending, here are the dozen offerings that will collide together in Palm Springs at the 2026 edition of the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival.

Read the breathless braggadocio of Alan Rode in the descriptions of the twelve films that will play from May 7-10 here:

https://arthurlyonsfilmnoir.org/schedule/

For those who wish to bypass that pleasure, here are the times & titles

Thursday 5/7 (7:30)
SLIGHTLY SCARLET (1956)

Friday 5/8 (10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30)
HELL DRIVERS (1957/UK), GUNN (1967), CITY GIRL (1938), BONNIE & CLYDE (1967)*

Saturday 5/9 (10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30)
MANHANDLED (1949), I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943), THE MOB (1951), THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (1950)*

Sunday 5/10 (10:00, 1:00, 4:00)
LET US LIVE (1938), IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY (1947/UK), NO WAY OUT (1950)

*Films preceded by book signings

One of the stronger collisions in the festival's history--albeit still plagued by a peculiar form of tin-eared tonality with respect to sequencing--there is much to enjoy here just as long as one manages to escape the "whiplash effect" that is still a feature and a bug of Alan's "flood the waterfront" approach.

Kudos are in order for the inclusion of the two Brit-noirs, and for the strong choice of closing film.