Film Noir Festival opens in Palm Springs Thursday
The 14th annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival,which screens “landmark and obscure” vintage movies from the 1930s to the1950s, opens Thursday in Palm Springs.
The festival runs through Sunday at Camelot Theatres and is organized bythe Palm Springs Cultural Center. The festival will open Thursday with a 7:30p.m. screening of 1946’s “Three Strangers,” starring Sydney Greenstreet andPeter Lorre. After the screening, Michael Lindsay Hogg, son of co-starGeraldine Fitzgerald, will answer questions and sign his book, “Luck andCircumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York and Points Beyond.”
Writer and film historian Alan Rode will host the festival for the sixthstraight year, festival spokesman Michael C. Green said. The festival willinclude celebrity appearances and introductions by film historians. Thosescheduled to appear are actresses Marsha Hunt and Joan Evans, actors JimmyLydon and Stuart Whitman, and Patricia Ward Kelly, widow of actor andchoreographer Gene Kelly.
“I try to keep the festival fresh for our core audience members whoaren’t necessarily habitues of the film noir festival circuit,” Rode said. “While the guest stars and the commentators are a major component of thefestival’s rich heritage, our loyal patrons continue to sustain the ArthurLyons Film Noir Festival primarily because of the unique mix of films that areprogrammed every year.”
The festival was founded in 2000 by mystery author and Palm Springscommunity leader Arthur Lyons and his wife, Barbara, as the Palm Springs FilmNoir Festival. The event was renamed the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in2008 after Lyons’ death.
All-access passes are $125, and include the opening night reception.Individual tickets are $13; $11 for 10 a.m. matinees.
For tickets, go to www.arthurlyonsfilmnoir.org orwww.camelottickets.com, call (800) 595-4849, or go to the Camelot Theatres boxoffice from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
