Noir City Hollywood Carries a Tune: Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode on the 2026 Fest’s ‘Face the Music!’ Theme, and How Jazz Lent a Serious Subtext to Classic Crime Films

For 28 years, the Noir City film festival has been unfolding every spring under the aegis of the American Cinematheque, give ...
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Celebrate NOIR-vember under the stars

Celebrate film noir this month with a Friday night film series called Noirvember Nights at Cinema Under the Stars. The films will have exclusive video introductions from Alan K. Rode of the Film Noir ...
Variety

Marsha Hunt, 1917-2022: An Appreciation of One of Hollywood’s Genuine Heroines

Film historian Alan K. Rode recalls his friendship with the actress who, beyond being one of the last great links to Hollywood's golden age, dedicated herself to activism and service, forged in part ...
Variety

Noir City Hollywood Festival Returns With Focus on Race and Gender in Film Noir — and More 35mm Restorations

After a year off, the festival of '40s and '50s films takes a detour from the currently closed Egyptian to the nearby Hollywood Legion Theater, with Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode returning as hosts ...
Variety

When Stanley Kubrick Went Noir, and More: Palm Springs’ Annual Film Noir Festival Returns With More Black-and-White Larceny

The desert will again be a hotbed of deceit and larceny in luxurious black-and-white as the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns to Palm Springs this Thursday through Sunday, with the ...
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Hollywood Champion A Tribute to Kirk Douglas

In it film noir expert Alan K Rode and critic Constantine Nasr offer an enthusiastic but very fair assessment of Douglas career and personal life as well as some of the big films he made that are now ...