Get Out, See?: SIFF Film Noir Series

Guns, booze, dames, and private eyes: The SIFF Cinema Summer Series (say that five times fast) kicks off tonight with their first annual Seattle Noir City Festival. Noir City's been taking place in San Francisco for five years now, and this is the first time it's made its way to the seamy underbelly of the Northwest.

The festival is co-presented with and will benefit the Film Noir Foundation whose mission is to spread the word about this significant American cinematic movement, and to find and preserve films in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged. Noir City denizen Eddie Muller will be on hand to introduce many of the programs. "If you want to study noir's existentialist deconstruction of the Judeo-Christian patriarchy—good for you. If you’re coming to dig the vintage rides and vinegary repartée, to soak up the shadows and wallow in the wanton behavior—take a seat front and center."—Eddie Muller, Czar of Noir

The series runs through next Thursday, with two films show everyday, beginning with tonight's gritty doubleheader of Thieves' Highway and Deadline at Dawn.

Times vary // SIFF Cinema at Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at McCaw Hall // 321 Mercer St // $10 general admission; $9 SIFF members