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

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