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Twelfth Annual Arthur Lyons Film Festival

Coming May 10-13, 2012



Popular festival well-known for screening rare and rarely seen Film Noir classics;

All Access Passes go on sale April 1, 2012.

The Palm Springs Cultural Center announced today that…

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The 12th Annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival is scheduled for May 10 - 13, 2012.

Founded in 2000 by the late mystery author and Palm Springs community leader Arthur Lyons, this unique festival features an eclectic mixture of landmark and obscure vintage movies from the classic film noir era. Laden with…

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The Opening Night of the 2011 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival will include a very special appearance by actress Stefanie Powers. Miss Powers, perhaps best known for her role on the popular television series, Hart to Hart, will attend the screening of the 1962 thriller Experiment in Terror (7:30pm on Thursday, May 12).  



Directed by Blake Edwards, Experiment in Terror starred Glenn… Continue

Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival

 Announces partial list of Screenings;

Guest Appearances For 2011 Edition

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, which is being presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center at the Camelot Theatres from May 12th through the 15th, has announced a partial list of films and guest appearances for its eleventh edition.



A…

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Film Noir Festival tops all past years

Bruce Fessier • The Desert Sun

• May 18, 2010 …

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Although most baby boomers probably remember her either as Timmy’s mother, Ruth on Lassie, or better yet, as Maureen Robinson on Lost in Space, June Lockhart’s amazing career in movies, television, and on Broadway, started long before either of her well-loved television characters were ever conceived by their creators.



The daughter of actors (Canadian-born Gene Lockhart and English-born actress Kathleen… Continue

The 2010 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, which is being presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center, is celebrating its Tenth Anniversary with a very special selection of films, and some extra special guest appearances. Films and stars confirmed to date include: …



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The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival is pleased to announce

the confirmation of the following screenings and guests for our 10th

anniversary festival to be held May 13-16, 2010 at the Camelot Theatres in beautiful

Palm Springs, California:

Bury Me Dead (1947) with special guest appearance by JUNE…

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The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival hosted a packed house last night for the opening of the ninth annual tribute to all things Noir. Noir fans, local residents and several stars came out and walked the Black Carpet before the screening of BIGGER THAN LIFE - the 1956 Film Noir Classic starring James Mason, Walter Matthau, and Barbara Rush (who made a special guest appearance).



Alan Rode, Festival Director, opened the festival and thanked the Palm Springs Cultural… Continue

Opening Night for the 2009 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Film Festival, which is being presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center, is just days away, and the Opening Night Festivities promise to make the Ninth edition of the popular annual event the best ever!



BIGGER THAN LIFE, a forgotten, noir-stained classic directed by the great Nicholas Ray (Rebel without a Cause, In a Lonely Place, They Live by Night), opens the Festival, and will be screened at 7:30pm, with an Opening Reception… Continue

Long before she became Blanche Hudson in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE, and long before her daughter Christina made her infamous as MOMMIE DEAREST, Joan Crawford had already earned her place as one of the Queens of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Her movie career encompassed more than 45 years and 80 films, and included her Oscar Award-winning performance as Mildred Pierce in the movie by the same name. And although she had some great lines over the years (both onscreen and offscreen), some… Continue

Actress Patty McCormack has played many roles in her long career, including numerous credits in film, on Broadway, and in television (with over 250 television appearances). Most recently, she played Pat Nixon, wife of President Richard M. Nixon, in the Oscar-nominated Ron Howard film, FROST/NIXON. And on Friday, May 29th, Patty McCormack is coming to Palm Springs to celebrate another of her roles - one of her first, in fact. It was a role she originally played in the… Continue

Noir Enthusiasts will enjoy www.Crimeculture.com - a crime fiction site with which we have a reciprocal link.



www.Crimeculture.com was established in 2002 as an academic internet site for anyone teaching or studying crime fiction, film and graphic art. Recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of university courses being offered on crime-related topics.



The authors, Lee and Katharine Horsley, established the site because they hope it will be an exciting… Continue

We're happy to report that the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Film Festival is now on Facebook. That's right. We have our own page. Better yet, our online blog links directly to the Facebook page. To find us on FaceBook, either search for the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Film Festival page or click HERE

The following Guest Appearances have been confirmed:*



ROBERT LOGGIA is scheduled to be the SPECIAL SCREENING GUEST

for the screening of THE GARMENT JUNGLE (1957)





PATTY McCORMACK is scheduled to be the SPECIAL SCREENING GUEST

for the screening of THE BAD SEED (1956)





ANNE JEFFREYS is scheduled to be the SPECIAL SCREENING GUEST

for the screening of… Continue