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Entries from LAist tagged with 'femmefatale'

September 6, 2008

This story didn't happen at Union Station. It was about four years too early for that. But at least in reading the story, we can imagine that it happened there, as all good noir stories should. It was 1931, and something fishy was going on. The train from Phoenix had pulled in on time, now all the luggage was gone, except two trunks -- that stank so badly, the porters wished it was fish. It......

Continue Reading "LAistory: Something Smells at the Train Station"

June 22, 2008

Living in Hollywood is never so fun as when attending an old-school movie event. Granted, there wasn't anything highly unusual about the screening of "Gilda" at the Silent Movie Theater yesterday -- it was the third movie in the Cinefamily's month-long series, Femme Fatale Hall of Fame. But some things happen in Hollywood that just can't happen elsewhere. In this case, it was Peter Ford, son of Glenn Ford - the star of the film......

Continue Reading "'Gilda' at Cinefamily"

June 20, 2008

It's halfway through this series, but with an idea this glorious it's better late than never. Cinefamily is devoting it's Saturday Noir Matinees in June to a series called Femme Fatale Hall of Fame. Upon reflection, femme fatales seem to be a thing of the past. Could that be true? Have we become scared of the femme fatale and her wiles, such that we no longer want her to exist, even onscreen? Or has Angelina......

Continue Reading "Catch Up on Your Femme Fatales"

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