Rare Screenings at Fifth Annual Albuquerque Film Noir Festival

This year’s 5th Annual Noir Film Festival, which started Friday today at the Guild Cinema in Nob Hill, Albuquerque (3405 Central Ave NE  255-1848), features some rarely screened titles that should have local film noir fans very excited:

JUNE 20 & 21 (FRIDAY & SATURDAY):

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (3:00, 7:00)
Dir. Billy Wilder – 1944 – 107m

THE HIDDEN ROOM (a.k.a. OBSESSION) (5:10, 9:10)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk – 1949 – 96m – UK

JUNE 22 & 23 (SUNDAY & MONDAY):

REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT
The Original “Playhouse 90” Live Television Version (3:30, 7:00)
Dir. Ralph Nelson – 1956 – 90m

99 RIVER STREET (5:15, 8:45)
Dir. Phil Karlson – 1953 – 86m

JUNE 24 & 25 (TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY):

REPEAT PERFORMANCE (5:15, 8:30)
Dir. Alfred L. Werker – 1947 – 91m

THE PRETENDER (7:00 ONLY)
Dir. W. Lee Wilder – 1947 – 69m

JUNE 26 & 27 (THURSDAY & FRIDAY):

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY (3:10, 7:00)
Dir. Felix E. Feist – 1951 – 90m

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (5:00, 8:45)
Dir. Phil Karlson – 1952 – 99m

JUNE 27 & 29 (SATURDAY & SUNDAY):

WIDMARK AND DASSIN
NIGHT AND THE CITY (2:30, 6:30)

ROAD HOUSE (4:30, 8:30)
Dir. Jean Negulesco – 1949 – 95m

JUNE 30 & JULY 1 (MONDAY & TUESDAY):

RARELY-SCREENED JOSEPH LOSEY
THE BIG NIGHT (5:30, 8:35)
Dir. Joseph Losey – 1951 – 75m

QUICKSAND (7:05 ONLY)
Dir. Irving Pichel – 1949 – 79m

JULY 2 & 3 (WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY):

CINEMATOGRAPHER JOHN ALTON IN TECHNICOLOR
SLIGHTLY SCARLET (5:00, 9:00)

JOSEPH LOSEY IN THE U.K.
THE CRIMINAL (7:00 ONLY)
Dir. Joseph Losey – 1960 – 97m – UK – Shown on digital video

JULY 4 & 5 (FRIDAY & SATURDAY):

CRY OF THE CITY (3:30, 7:05)
Dir. Robert Siodmak – 1948 – 95m

RARE SCREENING
CELL 2455, DEATH ROW (5:30, 9:05)
Dir. Fred F. Sears – 1955 – 77m

JULY 6 & 7 (SUNDAY & MONDAY):

RESTORED 35MM PRINT
THE BLACK BOOK (a.k.a. REIGN OF TERROR) (3:30, 7:00)
Dir. Anthony Mann – 1949 – 89m

STRANGE ON THE RANGE!
TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (5:20, 8:45)
Dir. Joseph H. Lewis – 1958 – 81m

JULY 8 & 9 (TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY):

THE CRIMSON KIMONO (5:20, 9:05)
Dir. Sam Fuller – 1959 – 81m

RICHARD WIDMARK
NO WAY OUT (7:00 ONLY)
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 1950 – 106m

Full details here.