Programmed November 2025

Blackout Noir

Among the most agonizingly intense films in the history of film noir are those that adopt the point of view of characters tormented by amnesia, memory holes, and drunken blackouts, leaving them to grasp in the dark in search of an often terrifying truth. Waking up unexpectedly in a stranger’s bed is one thing . . . putting on your coat to leave and discovering a bloodstain on it is another. Reveling in teasing ambiguity, these films—including both defining genre classics like In a Lonely Place and Crossfire and hidden gems like Black Angel and Deadline at Dawn —combine tantalizing whodunit mysteries with creeping doubt, paranoia, and a guilt that shreds the soul. Programmed by Farran Smith Nehme and Glenn Kenny

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