Palm Noir. Low key black and white in the hot yellow high desert. The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival has ended. The festival broke records this year with audiences soaking in all of that sun and sin, light and vice, early mornings and existential angst. Murder among the palm trees was actually, quite perfect. Stumbling out of Joseph Losey's revenge-for-father noir, The Big Night (starring a teenage John Drew Barrymore), before 12 noon felt fittingly surreal. By the time the festival closed with a fallen Mickey Rooney offing two crooks on a dark Malibu beach (Richard Quine's Drive A Crooked Road), it all seemed so terribly normal. If, at that point, Gloria Grahame had attempted to steal my coat in a cafeteria (a la The Glass Wall), I would have simply handed it to her. This was my third year presenting films...
- 5/21/2010
- by Kim Morgan
- Huffington Post
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