NOIR CITY Annual 17

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The Film Noir Foundation is a non-profit public benefit corporation created by Eddie Muller in 2005 as an educational resource regarding the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of film noir as an international cinematic movement. It is the foundation’s mission to find and preserve films in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged, and to ensure that high quality prints or DCPs of these classic films remain in circulation for theatrical exhibition to future generations. Once these films are unearthed, restored and returned to circulation, the chances increase that the films will be made available on Blu-ray and/or for online streaming for future generations of film lovers to appreciate.

Since 2005, the Film Noir Foundation has saved the following films --

RESTORATIONS – Funded by the Film Noir Foundation

The Prowler (1951)

Cry Danger (1951)

Try and Get Me! (1951)

High Tide (1947)

Too Late for Tears (1949)

Repeat Performance (1947)

The Guilty (1947)

Woman on the Run (1950)

Los tallos amargos (The Bitter Stems) (1956 Argentina)

The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)

Trapped (1949)

La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die) (1952 Argentina)

El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) (1953 Argentina)

The Argyle Secrets (1948)

No abras nunca esa puerta (Never Open That Door) (1952 Argentina)

The Yellow Canary (1963)

PRESERVATIONS – Funded by the Film Noir Foundation

The Window (1949)

Nobody Lives Forever (1946)

High Wall (1947)

Loophole (1954)

The Hunted (1948)

Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Cry Tough (1959)

Three Strangers (1946)

The Underworld Story (1950)

Apenas un delincuente (Hardly a Criminal) (1949 Argentina)

No abras nunca esa puerta (Never Open That Door) (1952 Argentina)

Si muero antes de despertar (If I Die Before I Wake) (1952 Argentina)

Since its founding, the FNF has restored, through UCLA Film & Television Archive, and returned to circulation fifteen films -- Cry Danger (1951), The Prowler (1951), Try and Get Me! (1951), Repeat Performance (1947), High Tide (1947), Too Late for Tears (1949), The Guilty (1947), Woman on the Run (1950), The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), Trapped (1949), The Argyle Secrets (1948), and from Argentina -- 1956's Los tallos amargos (The Bitter Stems), 1952's La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die), 1953's El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire), and 1952's No abras nunca esa puerta (Never Open That Door).  Additionally, the FNF has funded fifteen 35mm preservation prints which have been returned to circulation as well -- eleven U.S. films and four from Argentina.  The Film Noir Foundation's next restoration will premiere in the spring of 2026.