Noir steers the course
With the marvelous news that “The Girl with the Needle” has snagged a nomination for best international film at the Golden Globes, the 34th edition of Noir in Festival comes to a close. The numbers back up an event that turns thirty-five next year
The primacy of character: a talk with Juan Gómez-Jurado
The Spanish author is at Noir to present his novel “Todo vuelve.” Luca Crovi moderates the conversation
The Black Panther Award goes to “Brief History of a Family”
The first film by Chinese filmmaker JJ Lin comes out the winner of the international competition. The Claudio Caligari Prize goes to “Mimì: The Prince of Darkness”
A conversation with Joyce Carol Oates
After receiving the Raymond Chandler Award the night before, the American writer dialogues with Fabio Vittorini, Anna Re, and the IULM students
Vanna Vinci and Lorenzo Palloni, two talks about comics
Two new releases, “Viaggio notturno” and “È successo un guaio,” are a perfect occasion to share ideas about graphic novels, the noir genre, and the NOIR 2024 poster designed by Vanna Vinci
Joyce Carol Oates honored with Noir’s award named after Raymond Chandler
The great American author was handed the prestigious award and talked with Antonio Monda about her new novel “Butcher,” with some discursions into the political and social moment in the United States and the female condition, with women still subjected to gender-based violence today
Punishment or redemption?
The Swedish filmmaker Gustav Möller, based in Denmark, talks about his second film “Sons,” which wields a film genre to ask crucial questions about the aims of imprisonment
William Somerset Maugham, the first spy
A singular life in books and film, as told by Adrian Wootton