SHADOW OF A DOUBT's "Ann Newton"...Today...

Edna and HitchWhile doing research for a blog on Shadow of a Doubt last year I unearthed information about Edna May Wonacott Green who portrayed Ann Newton, the younger sister in the 1943 film. I wrote a letter asking Edna if she'd be interested in being interviewed and a little while later received...

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"Who's Crazy Now?" - Noir City 9, Opening Night

Stranger on the Third FloorSo…I paid my 10 bucks to park in the lot adjacent to Sullivan’s Funeral Home on Market Street in San Francisco and was heading for the Wells Fargo ATM near 16th...I checked my phone and noticed a text message…my friend Dick, who I was to meet for dinner before attending opening...

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CMBA Hitchcock Blogathon: THREE CLASSIC HITCHCOCK KILLERS

Alfred Hitchcock once remarked that, “in the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog.”  He resisted such clichés, preferring a different kind of heavy, the sort he called “an ordinary human being with failings.”  The director also said, referring to his own work, “the more successful...

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Focus on Film Noir: Barbara Stanwyck

Three films of legendary star to be screened at Noir City 9Her childhood has been called Dickensian and the rags-to-riches trajectory of her life could easily have provided material for one of her films… She was the youngest of a hard-drinking Irish American bricklayer’s five children She lost her mother...

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Focus on Film Noir: Warner Home Video's Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 5

Released by Warner Home Video in 2010, Film Noir Classic Collection, Volume 5  is a four-disc showcase of eight double-featured films, a sampling of thrillers ranging from the acclaimed to the all-but-forgotten.Disc one is a strong pairing of Edward Dmytryk's Cornered (1945) with Anthony Mann's Desperate...

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NOIR CITY 9 - Schedule announced for 9th annual San Francisco festival

The ninth annual San Francisco film noir festival, Noir City 9, will run from Friday, January 21, through Sunday, January 30, at the historic Castro Theatre; 24 films noir, both celebrated and obscure, will screen.A presentation of the Film Noir Foundation, this festival is the centerpiece of the organization's...

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Break out the champagne (the '55 Hitchcock)...

Sometime just after Labor Day it began to seem that 2010 suddenly accelerated and was careening headlong toward Halloween…Thanksgiving…Christmas.  Each holiday quickly came and went and, what seems like moments later, 2011 is here.In my life, 2010 was a year highlighted by reconnecting with old friends and...

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