Noir City Festival

The beautiful Hollywood Legion Theater was buzzing at the opening of Noir City on April 15, a film festival showing restored noir films. The atmosphere was vibrant with a willing and dedicated audience, a few wearing vintage outfits with gusto, some masked as a Covid-19 precaution, others not.

Trapped, a nearly lost movie from 1949 which was restored last year thanks to a grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was the featured presentation at the opening night of Noir City 17, the annual festival sponsored by the Film Noir Foundation. The historic Castro movie theater in San Francisco was again the venue.