Dispatches from Noir City (Days 1-3)

by Rosalie Lewis

What do you do when you’ve spent the last three days at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre watching 10 film noir movies amidst hundreds of other lovers of all things hardboiled and historic? Naturally, you come back for four more days of mesmerizing, crime-filled cinema! It’s only fitting that I’m currently holed up in the Music Box Lounge as I write this, tickets in hand for the next double feature. Let me tell you about what I’ve watched so far, so that you can follow along at home.

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by Rosalie Lewis

He drew his trench coat around his lean frame and lowered his hat as he stepped out of the shadowy portico and braced against the frigid rain. Deep down, he knew this dame was bad news, but something about her shapely countenance and coy desperation kept pulling him deeper into the sordid underworld she inhabited. He should have known how all of this would end...