Noir City Hollywood Carries a Tune: Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode on the 2026 Fest’s ‘Face the Music!’ Theme, and How Jazz Lent Serious Subtext to Classic Crime Films

Noir City Hollywood hosts Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode preview a festival at the American Cinematheque that will showcase ...
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Celebrate NOIR-vember under the stars

Celebrate film noir this month with a Friday night film series called Noirvember Nights at Cinema Under the Stars. The films will have exclusive video introductions from Alan K. Rode of the Film Noir ...
Variety

Noir City Hollywood Carries a Tune: Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode on the 2026 Fest’s ‘Face the Music!’ Theme, and How Jazz Lent a Serious Subtext to Classic Crime Films

“In the 1940s, when Hollywood scores were mostly orchestral, jazz was shown on screen as symbolic of the underworld,” says Muller, who, besides being president-founder of the Film Noir Foundation, is ...