Bowling Saturne wins the 2022 Black Panther Award
The Franco-Belgian film by Patricia Mazuy takes home the prize for Best Film. The Jury Special Mention goes to Profeti by Alessio Cremonini.
Piove wins the 2022 Caligari Prize
The film by Paolo Strippoli earns the award for Best Italian Noir Film. Cinecittà News confers a Special Mention on Una femmina by Francesco Costabile
Light and shadows
Two female authors present their latest novels at the Rizzoli Bookshop: Cinzia Bomoll, with La ragazza che non c’era, and Marìa Oruña, with Lo que la marea esconde. An article by Ariel Conta
You don’t say ‘no’ to Scerbanenco
Paolo Bacilieri, the artist behind the poster for the 2022 Noir in Festival, presented his new graphic novel, Venere Privata, based on Scerbanenco’s first novel featuring Duca Lamberti. The poster was a commission he couldn’t refuse. Article by Ariel Conta
Mythologies and miracles
At the Rizzoli Bookshop, Gianfranco Giagni, curator of the Italian edition, and filmmaker Davide Ferrario talk about The Unthinking Lobster, aka Miracolo a Hollywood, a play by Orson Welles. Article by Vittoria Villa
A Brasher Doubloon goes to Harlan Coben
On the day Italy’s highest honor for lifetime achievement by a master of the literary thriller and noir genre, the Raymond Chandler Award, goes to Harlan Coben, the Festival has released the statement
Quentin, such sweet memories
Photo by Aldo Umicini Davide Rapp and Michele Boroni re-evoke a heady season: the 1992 Noir in Festival and the revelation of Tarantino and his Reservoir Dogs in competition that year. The evening event this year celebrated that edition and ended with a message for Noir from the filmmaker, now firmly installed in the movie hall of fame. An article by Vittoria Villa
Tell Everyone. The work and worlds of Harlan Coben
Noir in Festival Raymond Chandler Award Recipient 2022. Article by Adrian Wootton
A dialogue with Irvine Welsh
Marina Fabbri interviews the author of The Long Knives, who shot to worldwide fame in 1993 for his novel Trainspotting. And, as happened with his 2008 novel Crime, the investigations of detective Ray Lennox will once again become a television miniseries
Quentin Tarantino, Harlan Coben, and the clash of civilizations
Among the 13 films in the Official Selection, several titles are sure to stir intense debate. “It may well be that Marlowe and Spade have had their day,” write Marina Fabbri and Giorgio Gosetti, “and perhaps even James Bond has to surrender to age and technology. But they could always make a comeback, as is often the case with imaginary heroes that light the way to the future.”
