Front Row Classics is about to take you on a journey through "Dark City" this week. We're thrilled to welcome back the "Czar of Noir" himself, Eddie Muller, to discuss one of our favorite genres. Eddie has recently released a revised and expanded edition of his book, "Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir." The book covers the various destinations and colorful characters one comes across when traveling through the world of Noir. Brandon and Eric are thrilled to discuss many of Noir's famous and infamous people and places with one of the genre's foremost experts.
"Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir" is available from Running Press wherever books are sold.
Eddie Muller is the host of "Noir Alley" on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Every Saturday, "Noir Alley" visits classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable, fatalistic dames they fall for.
Muller is a contemporary renaissance man. He writes novels, biographies, movie histories, plays, short stories and films. He also programs film festivals, curates museums, designs books and provides commentary for television, radio and DVDs. He produces and hosts NOIR CITY: The San Francisco Film Noir Festival, the largest noir retrospective in the world, which now has satellite festivals in seven other U.S. cities.
As founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, he has been instrumental in preserving America’s noir heritage, which to date has included restoring and preserving more than 30 nearly lost classics in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, such as "Too Late for Tears" (1949), "Woman on the Run" (1950) and "The Bitter Stems" (1956). He has also presented and lectured on film noir at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
His debut novel, "The Distance," earned the Best First Novel “Shamus” Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Muller is a two-time Edgar Award nominee from the Mystery Writers of America and has earned three Anthony Award nominations. "Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star," which he co-wrote with the actor, was a national bestseller in 2007. He has twice been named a San Francisco Literary Laureate.
