NOIR CITY Magazine #32

NOIR CITY, the acclaimed magazine of the Film Noir Foundation, now available in print!

Issue #32 features a one-of-a-kind cover story. Gloria Grahame may be the most popular actress in film noir, and the details of her life have been well documented. Offering a fascinating and fresh perspective on Grahame’s onscreen legacy: Emmy Award winner Dana Delany, who candidly admits that Gloria has been her lifelong muse. It’s a unique opportunity to venture inside the craft, “actor to actor.”

Also in this issue: Randy Dotinga on how classic film noir hid LGBTQ characters in plain sight; Nora Fiore, Twitter’s Nitrate Diva, surveys astrology in crime films; Nathalie Atkinson interviews Pornsak Pichetshote, writer of the new noir comic
The Good Asian; Eddie Muller tells the story behind the noir-stained paintings of the outsider artist known as Ely Legerdemain; Christina Newland considers the domestic drama of
The Reckless Moment (1949); novelist S.A. Cosby explains why
Point Blank (1967) is his favorite neo-noir; conversation with
Velvet Was the Night author Silvia Moreno-Garcia; and Steve Kronenberg asks “Noir or Not?” about
Seconds (1966). Plus book reviews, film reviews, and more.