Can't Miss It: Sunday

SIFF Cinema's Noir City Festival has a double-feature not many of you have seen before: Moonrise / Night Has a Thousand Eyes. The festival benefits the Film Noir Foundation, whose mission is to find and preserve noir titles in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged.

Says Noir of the Week:

Moonrise was once to be a William Wellman A-list picture with Jimmy Stewart or John Garfield but ended up in the lap of Charles Haas at Republic, where Frank Borzage had, in his last years, signed a three-picture deal. An oddity even in Frank Borzage's own oeuvre, Moonrise is a southern drama infected in equal parts by a noir sensibility and Borzage's romantic stamp. The film has a strange tension between a hardscrabble realism as scripted -- think Grapes of Wrath or Visconti's Ossessione -- and a noirish visual style contributed by cinematographer John L. Russell. ... Based on a novel by Theodore Strauss and scripted by producer Haas, the dialogue is endlessly quotable and drenched in philosophy.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes stars Edward G. Robinson as a con-man fortune teller whose predictions start coming true -- unfortunately, his predictions are resolutely gloomy, and the gift turns out not to be all that healthy. It's the classic short seller's dilemma.

1pm, 7pm // SIFF Cinema, Seattle Center // Tickets $10