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MORE AND MORE NOIR...
The great American writer Norman Mailer called film noir “the only great popular form of cinema, a theatre of art that the truck driver and the poet, uncultured teenagers and the bourgeoisie with refined tastes all understand and enjoy”.
This is the unforgettable world of the COURMAYEUR NOIR IN FESTIVAL that awaits you, this year from December 5-11.
The program
Twelve competition films, chosen from among the best in the genre, are judged by a prestigious jury that presents the Mystery Award for Best Film, a prize for Best Performance and a Jury Special Mention.
The festival also holds tributes and retrospectives that examine the history of the genre; discovers cutting-edge filmmakers to define new trends; and with the Mini Noir section also offers something for young audiences.
For its literary component, the festival promotes discussions with the best mystery writers from Italy and throughout the world and each year presents the prestigious Raymond Chandler Award, a career prize to a great international maestro, and the Giorgio Scerbanenco Award, to the best Italian noir novel of the year.
Workshops and international panels further examine the connections between current events and the new media.
In 2007, Variety has included the festival in the list of the 50 Unmissable Events worldwide.
NOIR IN FESTIVAL ON SCREEN
In its long tradition of discoveries and rediscoveries of filmmakers new and established working in the thriller genre, the festival has presented, in numerous retrospectives and tributes, a complete panorama of Italian genre cinema from the 1940s to the 1970s; a fresh look at renowned masters such as Alfred Hitchcock, Pierre Chenal, Orson Welles, William Friedkin, Jules Dassin and Robert Wise; and new filmmakers such as Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike (1999, his first Western retrospective), Sabu and Park Chan-wook.
NOIR has also spotlighted renowned documentary filmmakers like Emile De Antonio and Fred Wiseman; films by literary giants such as Friedrick Durrenmatt, Joseph Conrad, Dostoevsky and Philip K. Dick; and masters of the genre that include Cornell Woolrich, Mickey Spillane, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, Edward Bunker and Scott Turow.
Guests across the years have included: Dario Argento, Edward Bunker, Sergio Castellitto, Diablo Cody, Maria de Medeiros, Isabella Ferrari, Abbas Kiarostami, Val Kilmer, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Christopher Lee, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Laura Morante, Michele Placido, Amanda Plummer, Gillo Pontecorvo, Gabriele Salvatores, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bob Swaim, Filippo Timi, Charlize Theron, Johnnie To, Margarethe von Trotta, Peter Weller, Michael Winetrbottom.
The many hits screened at the Courmayeur Noir in Festival include the television series Alias and Lost by J.J. Abrams, Chris Carter’s X Files and Fallen Angels by Sydney Pollack. As well as films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs; Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave; In the Mouth of Madness by John Carpenter; David Fincher’s Seven; Taylor Hackford’s The Devil’s Advocate; Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers; Alien IV starring Sigourney Weaver; Tony Scott’s Enemy Mine, with Will Smith; Sam Mendes’ American Beauty; Phillip Noyce’s The Bone Collector with Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington; Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead; M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson; Gore Verbinski’s The Ring; the Hong Kong trilogy Infernal Affairs, on which Scorsese based The Departed; David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence; The Chronicles of Narnia; Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog; the Oscar-winning The Last King of Scotland; the returns of Tony Scott (Déjà Vu) and George Romero (Diary of the Dead); and the Oscar-nominated Frozen River.
THE DARK SIDE OF THE BOOK
For its Raymond Chandler Award, the festival has hosted and awarded the best names in the genre, including Fruttero & Lucentini, Donald Westlake, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, P.D. James, John le Carré, John Grisham, Andrew Vacchs, Mickey Spillane, James Crumley, James Grady, Ian Rankin, George P. Pelecanos, Scott Turow and Alicia Giménez-Bartlett. Chris Carter, Arturo Perez-Reverte and Farley Granger were awarded a Special Chandler Award.
Literature and NOIR are about more than just prizes. They include presentations of books, discussions with foreign and Italian writers and filmmakers, and the promotion of editorial series and magazines. Thus, in keeping with the intellectual curiosity established from the onset by the festival’s president, Oreste del Buono, NOIR has proudly hosted, among others: Robert Bloch, Mary Higgins Clark, Robin Cook, Giancarlo de Cataldo, Giorgio Faletti, Carlo Lucarelli, James Ellroy, Anne Perry, Walter Mosley, Michael Tolkin, José Latour, Joe Lansdale, Nicholas Evans, Raymond Benson, Kathy Reichs, Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, Ian Caldwell, Harlan Coben, Jeffery Deaver, Barry Gifford, Jason Goodwin, Amitav Gosh, Jean-Cristophe Grangé, James W. Hall, Jean-Claude Izzo, Michael Marshall Smith, Matthew Pearl and Patrick Raynal.
LITERATURE GUESTS from 1991 to 2011
Internazional Guests:
ÅKE EDWARDSON
ALICIA GIMENEZ BARTLETT
AMITAV GOSH
ANDREU MARTIN
ANDREW TAYLOR
ANDREW VACCHS
ANNE PERRY
ARNALDUR INDRIDASON
ARTURO PEREZ REVERTE
ASA LARSSON
BARRY GIFFORD
BRIAN ALDISS
BRIAN FREEMANTLE
CHRISTIAN M. JONES
CHRISTIAN MOERK
CHRISTOPHER COOK
CHRISTOPHER DICKEY
CODY MC FADYEN
DANIEL CHAVARRIA
DANIEL PICOULY
DAVID AMBROSE
DELACORTA
DON WINSLOW
DONALD WESTLAKE
ED MCBAIN
EDWARD BUNKER
ELVIRA DONES
FRANCISCO G.LEDESMA
FRANCK PAVLOV
FREDERICK BUSCH
FREDERICK FORSYTH
GEORGE PELECANOS
HARLAN COBEN
HERVE' PRUDON
IAIN PEARS
IAN CALDWELL
IAN RANKIN
JAKOB ARJOUNI
JAMES CRUMLEY
JAMES G. BALLARD
JAMES SALLIS
JAMES W. HALL
JASON GOODWIN
JEAN-BERNARD POUY
JEAN-CHRIST. GRANGÉ
JEAN-CLAUDE IZZO
JEFF LINDSAY
JEFFERY DEAVER
JENNY SILER
JO NESBØ
JOE CONNELLY
JOHN HARVEY
JOHN LE CARRÉ
JOHN RIDLEY
JONATHAN RABB
JOSE' LATOUR
JOSEPH FINDER
JUAN MADRID
JUAN MANUEL DE PRADA
KATE MOSSE
KATHY REICHS
KW JETER
LAUREN HENDERSON
LAWRENCE BLOCK
LEO PADURA FUENTES
LIZA MARKLUND
MAJ SJÖWALL
MANUEL V. MONTALBAN
MARCUS SAKEY
MAREK HALTER
MARK MILLS
MATT HAIG
MATTHEW PEARL
MATTI RONKA
MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI
MAXIME CHATTAM DANIEL
MICHAEL COLLINS
MICHAEL CONNELLY
MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
MICHAEL TOLKIN
MICKEY SPILLANE
MIKAËL OLLIVIER
MIKE PHILLIPS
NICHOLAS BLINCOE
NICHOLAS EVANS
NORMAN SPINRAD
OSVALDO SORIANO
P.D.JAMES
PACO TAIBO II
PATRICIA DUNCKER
PATRICK RAYNAL
PATRICK REDMOND
PEDRO CASALS
PETER JAMES
PETROS MARKARIS
PHILIP LE ROY
RAYMOND BENSON
REBECCA STOTT
RENE' FREGNI
RICHARD PRICE
ROBERT BLOCH
ROGER J. ELLORY
ROLO DIEZ
ROMAIN SARDOU
SANTIAGO GAMBOA
SEBASTIEN FITZEK
SERGE QUADRUPPANI
SHARON BOLTON
SOPHIE HANNAH
STELLA DUFFY
STEPHEN KELMAN
STUART KAMINSKY
SUSAN MUSGRAVE
TARQUIN HALL
THOMAS KANGER
TIM PARKS
TOM ROB SMITH
VICTOR GISCHLER
WALTER MOSLEY
WILL CHRISTOPHER BAER
WILLIAM GIBSON
WULF DORN
YASMINA KHADRA
ZORAN DRVENKAR
Italian guests:
ALESSANDRO CANALE
ALFREDO COLITTO
ANDREA CAMILLERI
ANDREA PINKETTS
ANDREA PORCHEDDU
ANDREA SANTINI
ANDREA VILLANI
ANGELO LANGE’
ANGELO PETRELLA
ANTONIO SCURATI
BARBARA GARLASCHELLI
BIAGIO PROIETTI
BRUNO GAMBAROTTA
CARLO LUCARELLI
CARLO MARIA MARTIGLI
CARMEN IARRERA
CLAUDIA SALVATORI
DAVIDE DI LEO (BOOSTA)
DONATO CARRISI
EDOARDO BRUGNATELLI
ELISABETTA BUCCIARELLI
ENRICO CAPANNI
ENRICO FRANCESCHINI
ENZO F. CARABBA
FEDERICO TAVOLA
FRANCESCO GUCCINI
FRANCO MIMMI
FRANCO SCAGLIA
FULVIO ABBATE
GAETANO SAVATTERI
GIAN MAURO COSTA
GIANCARLO DE CATALDO
GIANCARLO NARCISO
GIANLUCA MOROZZI
GIANNI BIONDILLO
GIANNI CANOVA
GIORGIO FALETTI
GIORGIO TODDE
GIULIO ANGIONI
GRAZIA VERASANI
GIAMPAOLO SIMI
LAURA GRIMALDI
LEONARDO GORI
LIA VOLPATTI
LORIANO MACCHIAVELLI
LUCA DI FULVIO
LUIGI BERNARDI
MARCELLO FOIS
MARCELLO SIMONI
MARCO LOMBARDI
MARCO NEIROTTI
MARCO VICHI
MARILÙ OLIVA
MARIOLINA VENEZIA
MASSIMO CARLOTTO
MAURIZIO DE GIOVANNI
MAURO MARCIALIS
MICHAEL GREGORIO
MICHELA MURGIA
NICO ORENGO
NINO FILASTÒ
PAOLA BARBATO
PAOLO DI REDA
PATRICK FOGLI
PIERO DEGLI ANTONI
PIERO SORIA
PINO CACUCCI
RENATO OLIVIERI
ROBERTO COSTANTINI
ROSSELLA MARTINA
SANDRO TONI
SANDRONE DAZIERI
SANTO PIAZZESE
SERENA VITALE
SERGIO ALTIERI
TITO GILIBERTO
TIZIANO SCLAVI
TOMMASO PINCIO
TULLIO AVOLEDO
UGO BARBARA
VALERIO EVANGELISTI
VALERIO M. MANFREDI
VALERIO VARESI
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