Noir City DC 2024
The theme of this is year's edition of Noir City DC was Darkness Knows Know Borders. Fifteen double features were shown. I made it to ten of them, two of the screenings I saw were introduced by Eddie Muller, three by Foster Hirsch, and five were without introduction because I saw them on weekdays. Most of the double features paired an English language film with one in a foreign language.
Week 1
Saturday
Sunday
Wednesday
Friday
Sunday
- Black Tuesday (1954) US
- Le Trou (1960) France
- Odd Man Out (1947) UK
- Victims of Sin (1951) Mexico
Wednesday
- Never Open that Door (1952) Argentina
- If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952) Argentina
- Hardly a Criminal (1949) Argentina
- Plunder Road (1957) US
Week 2
- High Sierra (1941) US
- Rififi (1955) France
Sunday
- They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) UK
- Aimless Bullet (1961) South Korea
There was just one movie that I saw this year that I had seen before, Rififi (1955), but I had never seen it on the big screen and it had been about 21 years since I last saw it. There were three other movies screened that I had seen before but I chose not to revisit them this year.
The theme for the 2025 festival has been announced, Pick Your Poison, and it looks like they will be showing double features once again. I have no idea what films will be showing but educated guesses can be made based on what they will be shown at Noir City film festivals in other cities, once those schedules are announced.
For more about Noir City see my posts about Noir City DC 2023 and 2022.
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