Noir City Chicago 2024: September 6 -12

It’s that time of year again. The air gets a little crisper, the days are shorter, and NOIR CITY Chicago is back at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N Southport Ave., Chicago, IL 60613. urner Classic Movies’ Noir Alley Host and president of the Film Noir Foundation, Eddie Muller, and author and film historian Alan K. Rode will again be this year’s hosts.

As per the Music Box website, “Under the banner, ‘Darkness Has No Borders’ this year’s NOIR CITY festival features thematically linked double bills pairing foreign language films with movies made in the United States and United Kingdom.”

The website continues: “At this year’s NOIR CITY, he notes, audiences will experience familiar noir tales … but many will be from Argentina, Egypt, France, Mexico, Italy, and Japan presented alongside English-language offerings. ‘Some are cultural one-offs,’ he explains, like the 1958 Egyptian offering Cairo Station (shown with the 1950 Paramount thriller Union Station), while others are examples of noir from countries with a dark wellspring of films still waiting to be discovered.” The 18-film program of thematically linked double bills includes heists, prison breaks, missing persons, cultural alienation, love triangles, and lots of plain old-fashioned murder.

Screenings from Friday, September 6th-Sunday, September 8th will be hosted by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder and host of TCM's Noir Alley.

Screenings on Monday, September 9th-Thursday, September 12th will be presented by FNF board member Alan K. Rode, author of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.

Festival Pricing

Series Pass - $125 GA / $100 Music Box Members (Grants admission into all screenings in NOIR CITY: CHICAGO 2024) 

Individual Screenings - $12.50 GA / $11.50 Senior (Available at the Box Office Only) / $10 Music Box Members

3D Screenings -  $18 GA / $17 Seniors (Available at the Box Office Only) / $15 Music Box Members

Films screened during this festival

• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Ossessione
• Odd Man Out
• Victims of Sin
• The Window
• Never Open That Door
• Zero Focus
• Cast a Dark Shadow
• This Gun for Hire
• Le Samourai
• Brute Force
• Hardly a Criminal
• Inferno
• Black Tuesday
• Man in the Dark
• Le Trou
• Union Station
• Cario Station

Click HERE for details on when the films will be screened during the festival.