on 9/8/2026, 11:21 am
Nothing new in the linked article, save for the fact that a lot of fine noirs from 1946 are not getting much love in their eightieth anniversary year...
...and that only reinforces my view that the best NC festival for 2027 is a look back to the prime year of American noir--1947.
Here is the Wikipedia list for American noir in 1947. Titles in bold are significant noirs never screened at NC--I count 15 of those.
Those underlined have screened before--we note the ones that have not been screened in a long time (ten of those).
Therefore, I conclude that over-familiarity is not an issue for a 1947 eightieth anniversary festival...
The Arnelo Affair
Backlash
Blackmail
Blind Spot
Body and Soul
Boomerang!
Born to Kill <---not since NC 1
The Brasher Doubloon
Brute Force
Bury Me Dead
Calcutta
Crossfire
Cry Wolf
Dark Passage
Dead Reckoning
Deep Valley
Desperate
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
A Double Life
Fall Guy
Fear in the Night
The Flame
For You I Die
Framed
The Gangster <---not since NC 8
The Guilty
High Tide
High Wall <---not since NC 9
The Invisible Wall
Ivy
Johnny O'Clock
Key Witness
Kiss of Death
The Lady from Shanghai
Lady in the Lake
The Long Night
Love from a Stranger
Lured (a.k.a. Personal Column)
The Macomber Affair
The Man I Love <---not since NC 2
Moss Rose
Nightmare Alley <--not since NC 4
Nora Prentiss
Out of the Past
The Paradine Case
Possessed <--not since NC 5
The Pretender
Railroaded!
The Red House
Repeat Performance
Ride the Pink Horse
Riffraff
Second Chance
Shoot to Kill
Singapore
T-Men
They Won't Believe Me <---not since NC 9
The Thirteenth Hour
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
The Unfaithful <--not since NC 2
The Unsuspected
Violence
The Web <--not since NC 4
The Woman on the Beach <--not since NC 9
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