Light and Noir Film Festival

The California Museum, The Film Noir Foundation, and The Crest Theatre bring you The Light & Noir Film Festival. The festival includes screenings of Double Indemnity (1944) and Sunset Boulevard (1950), both featured in the California Museum’s installation of the traveling exhibit, Light and Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1950.

In addition, a Q&A with Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation Founder and President, and host of Turner Classic Movies’ Noir Alley, will explore the legacy of legendary director Billy Wilder, a refugee from Nazi persecution during WWII whose legacy of achievements defined the film noir genre and shaped Hollywood’s Golden Age. Additional festivities include a 1940s-1950s costume contest, custom cocktails from the theatre’s adjoining Empress Tavern and more.