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Cinemathique offers Film Noir Festival

HOLLYWOOD-The American Cinemathique will present "Side Streets and Back Alleys: The Annual Festival of Film Noir" March 29 through April 14.

Thirty sexy, sinister films from the 1940s and 1950s will be shown over 14 nights plus a special closing tribute to the late director Robert Siodmak ("Criss Cross," "The Killers"), as well as director Joseph Newman who will appear in person with his mid-1940s long-lost, pre-noir "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts.

Personal appearances
Personal appearances are also scheduled by actresses Jan Sterling, Audrey Trotter, Ann Savage, Paula Raymond, Colleen Miller and Terry Moore; actors Jack Palance, and Harry Lewis; and screenwriter Malvin Wald.

More than 60 years after it began, in pulp magazines and expressionistic, doom-laden thrillers and crime movies of the 1930s and 1940s, Film Noir continues to cast its wicked spell on us. This series will bring renowned classics back to the big screen-featuring a "who's who" of favorite stars from the past, including Joan Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Dan Duryea, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Ida Lupino, Victor Mature, Fred MacMurray, James Mason, Kim Novac, Lizabeth Scott, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Claire Trevor, Richard Widmark, and many more.

'The Naked City'
The festival kicks off with a screening of Jules Dassin's crime drama "The Naked City" (1948), followed with a discussion by screenwriter Malvin Wald. Other highlights will include thrillers "Whiplash," "Crack-Up," and "Roadblock," early films by the late Budd Boetticher, and rare films such as "Blind Alley," "Apology for Murder," and "Two of a Kind."

All screenings will be at the historic 1922 Grauman's Hollywood Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., between Highland and Las Palmas in Hollywood.

For times and schedule call (323) 466-FILM. Tickets are $8 general; $6 Cinemathique members; $7 seniors (65 and up) and students with valid I.D.

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