“Film noir, as we know it today, is less a genre than a vibe. The term, coined well after the genre’s heyday by French film critics, refers to a certain blackhearted mode of Hollywood filmmaking defined by doomed protagonists, labyrinthine plots, expressionistic shadows and, more often than not, the alluring femme fatale. It is this last signifier that unites this year’s Noir City Boston, the annual repertory program curated by the Film Noir Foundation that touches down at The Brattle Theatre from Friday through Monday. Subtitled ‘Dark City Dames,’ the series gathers nearly a dozen titles from the classic to the obscure featuring devious gangster molls, hardboiled female detectives and other distaff denizens of the noir netherworld, with all screenings through Sunday introduced by the FNF’s Foster Hirsch. ” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day
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