23 films in this year's edition at AFI Silver Spring...no thumb on the scale from Todd Hitchcock (and the rather fawning boilerplate intro on their web page looks to be word-for-word from what's been used for the past 2-3 festivals).

What's interesting is to break down where the films are scheduled in relation to the two different hosts (Eddie, and Foster Hirsch) presiding on the two festival weekends. It splits almost down the middle--11 for Eddie, 12 for Foster.

EDDIE's WEEKEND
All Night Long
Black Angel
Blues in the Night
The Crimson Canary
Gilda
Hangover Square
A Man Called Adam
The Man I Love
Nocturne
Nora Prentiss
To Have and Have Not

FOSTER's WEEKEND
Anatomy of a Murder
King Creole
The Long Goodbye
Love Me or Leave Me
The Man With the Golden Arm
Odds Against Tomorrow
Pete Kelly's Blues
Round Midnight
Sweet Smell of Success
Thunder Road
The Yellow Canary
Young Man with a Horn

What we can see is that Eddie gave a number of the shaggy dogs in the schedule over to Foster, including KING CREOLE and THUNDER ROAD (which are once again cheekily paired together on a Friday night, where they will draw well for their novelty value and name recognition but will be unsatisfying to a sophisticated noir audience). Also pawned off on Foster is THE YELLOW CANARY, the FNF restoration project that Eddie camped up with the overly loquacious nonagenarian Pat Boone in LA back in May, and seems to be backpedaling from ever since.

Nine of Eddie's films are from the 40s, as opposed to exactly zero for Foster. At least Eddie spared Foster from having to introduce A MAN CALLED ADAM--that is the spirit of true friendship...