Welcome to NOIR TALK, a podcast devoted to discussing the Film Noir Foundation. Our first guest is FNF founder and president Eddie Muller. We start with a tribute to the late Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne (3:00), and then we discuss Eddie's new TCM series Noir Alley (9:00), his scheduled appearance at the upcoming TCM Festival (22:00), and the NOIR CITY Annual compendium of e-magazine articles from 2016 (26:00).
 
Then we talk about the NOIR CITY festival theme for the year, The Big Knockover (37:00), heist movies featuring terrific ensemble casts (47:00), NOIR CITY festival audiences (50:00), an interesting Italian film in this year's festival lineup (52:00), this year's festival poster featuring Ms. NOIR CITY 2017 (56:00), a local guest at the San Francisco festival (1:02:00), a preview of NOIR CITY Hollywood (1:05:00), Eddie's approach to programming film festivals with both rare and famous titles (1:10:00), and showing movies digitally while still supporting film preservation (1:14:00). 

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NOIR CITY Annual 2016 available at: https://www.amazon.com/Noir-City-Annual-No-9/dp/0692808329/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1489529589&sr=1-1

See the NOIR CITY 2017 movie lineup and poster at http://noircity.com/index.html

Feedback: podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org

Music: Themes from The Asphalt Jungle (by Miklos Rozsa), Sweet Smell Of Success (Elmer Bernstein), Rififi (Georges Auric)

Ep 1: Noir Alley and The Big Knockover, with Eddie Muller

NOIR TALK is a podcast devoted to discussing the Film Noir Foundation. It is the foundation’s mission to find and preserve noir films in danger of deterioration, damage or loss, and to ensure that high quality prints of these classic films remain in circulation for theatrical exhibition to future generations.

The views and opinions of guests do not necessarily reflect those of the Film Noir Foundation, or its directors and advisors.