“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard
Kathie Moffat: Don’t you see you’ve
only me to make deals with now?
Jeff Bailey: I build my gallows high,
baby.
-- Out of the Past (1947)
Last weekend, Nathan Bamford (Portland’s newest IFS blog correspondent) and I took a wrong turn down by the tracks and ended up at the NOIR CITY Film Festival.
Now that the rains have returned to
Portland, the night streets are blue and oily, with reflections shattered--like
broken dreams--by passing footsteps. The City, corrupt and silent, waits
for you to make your move.
Among the highlights: newly-restored
versions of Try and Get Me! (AKA The Sound of Fury, 1951) and High Tide (1947), which were preserved
through the efforts of the festival’s parent organization, the Film Noir Foundation.
