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The San Francisco film noir festival program is up.

The line-up includes many new releases of 35 mm prints of noirs that have not been screened since the decade of their release. This is a positive sign that the studios respect their catalogues and the great movement that was film noir.

filmnoir1 wrote:This is a positive sign that the studios respect their catalogues and the great movement that was film noir.

Not to mention all the money there is to be made off the resurgence of interest in film noir among buffs!

(Sorry, I'm rather cynical about the studios' motives.)

From the NY Times today. See the item in bold:

[quote]Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, Nights Are Noir in Fog City

By WENDELL JAMIESON
Published: January 29, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 — The orange and blue neon lights of the Castro Theater shone blurrily on the damp asphalt beneath the crisscrossing catenary wires of the streetcars. The words on the marquee in the Friday night gloom, read: “Marsha Hunt: In Person.â€