NOIR CITY X trailer

To commemorate its 10th anniversary, the NOIR CITY film festival has returned to the source. This year's poster was created in the San Francisco apartment where Dashiell Hammett, between 1927-29, wrote Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, and The Maltese Falcon, in an inspired burst of creativity that forever changed the course of American literature and laid the groundwork for film noir.

Ms. NOIR CITY 2012, Helena Bianca Stoddard, portrays The Maltese Falcon's delectable but duplicitous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, in a variation on the scene that Hollywood's Production Code demanded be cut from all film versions of the book. When one of the ten $1000 bills he's been paid to locate the Black Bird goes missing, Sam Spade demands that Brigid undress to prove she's hasn't stolen the money. "I've got to know what happened to that bill and I'm not going to be held up by anybody's maidenly modesty."

Hammett's actual apartment, located at 891 Post Street, is clearly the model for Spade's digs in the novel. It was for many years the home of NOIR CITY announcer William P. Arney, who carried the torch until local author and impresario Robert Mailer Anderson took over the lease. Under Anderson's stewardship, and the creative hand of designer Leonardo, Hammett's digs have been restored and preserved down to the last detail: Murphy bed, original fixtures, and all. When the fog rolls in off the ocean, and shadows streak across the ceiling, you can almost hear Sam Spade snarl, "I don't care who loves who—I'm not going to play the sap for you."

The actual poster will be unveiled at this year's NOIR CITY XMAS program, December 13 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, as will the full schedule of films.

CREDITS: Eddie Muller (concept, slideshow); Bill Selby (art direction); David M. Allen (photography); Helena Bianca Stoddard (Brigid O'Shaughnessy); Melissa Wagner (hair and makeup); Valentine (wardrobe); Leonardo (décor); Artie Shaw (music: "Nightmare")

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Noir City
• Film Noir Foundation
• film noir
• film festival
• Eddie Muller
• San Francisco
• Noir City X
• 2012 Noir City
• short
• trailer

[jsmcguireIII]

Thanks to Eddie "The Czar" for another great festival. Saw Dark Passage and House on Telegraph Hill this time around.

[Linda69P]

Love this trailer !

[cappybenton]

Wunderbar

[cinemaforever7]

Beautiful shots! Really captures the mood!

[Keithj136]

This is a Class video,you just cant beat Noir...and many congrats on 10 years.:)

[DeeDee7372]

Unfortunately, you-tube flagged my comment as spam~I'm sorry!