Film noir is one of our favorite genres and what better month than Noirvember to celebrate it? So we’ve got a mini-festival of new and classic noir that we hope you will enjoy.

The newest of these (2012) is The Last Movie, in which a director (the film’s actual director and writer, Bruce Pittman) decides to remake a little-known Russian film noir and becomes obsessed with finding the perfect femme fatale. A struggling actress finally wins the part…and becomes obsessed with the character she is to portray.

It’s a unique and intricate film-within-a-film with many references to classic movies, film noir, and contemporary movies as well. If you like mysteries, thrillers, or movies-about-movies, we think you’ll enjoy this one. It won Best Foreign Film at the Long Island Film Festival, received the Award of Merit at the Lucerne International Film Festival, and was an official selection at the Moscow International Film Festival.

It’s showing Saturday, November 16 @ 7 p.m. and Sunday, November 17 @ 7 p.m. Tickets are $7.00.

On Saturday ONLY, Last Movie director Bruce Pittman will be on hand for a Q&A afterwards. Don’t miss this opportunity to get an inside look into how movies in general, and this one in particular, are made.

Rounding out the slate are a couple of classic 1950s noirs.

Gun Crazy (1950) | Friday, November 15 @ 7:00 p.m. — Saturday, November 16 @ 5:00 p.m. | Tickets $5
Bart Tare (John Dall) loves guns. When he meets a beautiful sharpshooter (Peggy Cummins), they embark on a robbery spree. The precursor to Bonnie and Clyde (1967), this film contains one of the greatest long takes in cinema history.

Kansas City Confidential (1952) | Friday, November 16 @ 9:00 p.m. — Sunday, November 17 @ 5:00 p.m. | Tickets $5
An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. Part of the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.